{"id":2616,"date":"2022-07-11T20:28:16","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T19:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.furnessrailwaytrust.org.uk\/about\/blog\/?p=2616"},"modified":"2022-07-11T20:28:16","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T19:28:16","slug":"monday-11th-july-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/?p=2616","title":{"rendered":"Monday 11th July 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back after a holiday break &#8211; and the weather is now looking good! Typical!<\/p>\n<p>After some months of wrestling with second hand twisted metal, we are pleased to report that John Dixon finally had the pleasure (or should that be satisfaction?) of seeing the new gas cylinder store completed, painted and erected.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2619\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220701_114832-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"John Davis and John Dixon move the door of the gas cylinder cage into position\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220701_114832-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220701_114832-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220701_114832-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/>John Davis and John Dixon are seen moving the cage door into position.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2621\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220701_153535A-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"John Dixon makes the final adjustments to the cage\" width=\"660\" height=\"880\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220701_153535A-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220701_153535A-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/>John Dixon makes the final adjustments to the cage.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2620\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220701_145713A-724x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Phil Bell and John Dixon secure the roof into position\" width=\"660\" height=\"933\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220701_145713A-724x1024.jpg 724w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220701_145713A-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220701_145713A-768x1086.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/>Phil Bell and John Dixon secure the roof.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2622\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220706_140806AT-A-1024x498.jpg\" alt=\"John Davis in Fluff's cab, John Dixon works on roof vents and Matt Crabtree and Keith are on Wootton Hall's tender.\" width=\"660\" height=\"321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220706_140806AT-A-1024x498.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220706_140806AT-A-300x146.jpg 300w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220706_140806AT-A-768x373.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/>Inside the shed, John Davis and Phil Bell have lifted the first half of <em>Fluff&#8217;<\/em>s roof into place. John Davis is in <em>Fluff&#8217;<\/em>s cab whilst John Dixon (right) continues his work on the final two vents for the roof of Great Eastern Railway Royal Saloon No. 5. Matt Crabtree and Keith Brewer discuss progress on welding new steelwork on Wootton Hall&#8217;s tender.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2623 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220629_151850-e1657567261256-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Sam and Wilfie make up water treatment sachets for FR 20\" width=\"660\" height=\"880\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220629_151850-e1657567261256-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220629_151850-e1657567261256-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/>We were pleased to welcome Wilfie Pinch who has spent his first day working in the FRT shed. He is seen here with Sam preparing daily water treatment sachets for FR 20.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/G\/02\/x-locale\/paladin\/primeday2022\/7e0d6092-b534-4824-9d83-3a7bcbefba0a.gif\" alt=\"Amazon Prime Day advert\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Finally, during Prime Day (which actually runs for two days!?!), tomorrow and Wednesday, Amazon is doubling donations on all eligible purchases made with AmazonSmile. That means <a href=\"https:\/\/smile.amazon.co.uk\/charity?orig=%2F\">if you buy during the 48-hour event using Amazon Smile<\/a> you can get Amazon to donate to the Furness Railway Trust, at no expense to you, twice as much as usual!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back after a holiday break &#8211; and the weather is now looking good! Typical! After some months of wrestling with second hand twisted metal, we are pleased to report that John Dixon finally had the pleasure (or should that be satisfaction?) of seeing the new gas cylinder store completed, painted and erected. John Davis and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/?p=2616\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday 11th July 2022<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2616"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2625,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616\/revisions\/2625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}