{"id":2650,"date":"2022-08-08T22:25:36","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T21:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.furnessrailwaytrust.org.uk\/about\/blog\/?p=2650"},"modified":"2022-08-08T22:25:36","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T21:25:36","slug":"monday-8th-august-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/?p=2650","title":{"rendered":"Monday 8th August 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The blog may have had a week off, but there hasn&#8217;t been any let up in action at Preston.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2642\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/20220803_134412-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"The new front plate on Wootton Hall's tender, welded into place by Ian Massey\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/20220803_134412-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/20220803_134412-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/20220803_134412-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/>There has been further progress with the repairs to <em>Wootton Hall&#8217;<\/em>s tender tank with Ian Massey welding in a new front plate last Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2643\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/20220805_141048-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Matt Crabtree using a magnet to position a new piece of steel on the back of Wootton Hall's tender tank\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/20220805_141048-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/20220805_141048-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/20220805_141048-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/>Matt Crabtree has also continued his welding work on the tank, seen here last Friday using a magnet to hold a new piece of metal in place prior to tacking it in place with weld.<\/p>\n<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2644\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/20220803_134358-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Phil Bell fixing down Fluff's cab roof\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/20220803_134358-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/20220803_134358-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/20220803_134358-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/>Fluff&#8217;<\/em>s new cab roof is now well and truly in place with Phil Bell drilling some fixing holes.<\/p>\n<p>The work on the roof on Great Eastern Railway Royal Saloon No.5 is also heading towards a conclusion. John Dixon has been fitting the last of the vents, including some new lead fittings. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2645\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/20220805_100253-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Let us pray?! John Dixon securing a replacement step board in place of GER No. 5\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/20220805_100253-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/20220805_100253-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/20220805_100253-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/>He has also been replacing some missing step boards with wood from old church pews supplied by Fred. (Note the suitable kneeling position&#8230;!)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2647\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG-20220803-WA0000-MRson-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Old tubes being removed from Cumbria at Embsay\" width=\"660\" height=\"880\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG-20220803-WA0000-MRson-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG-20220803-WA0000-MRson-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG-20220803-WA0000-MRson.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/>Over at Embsay, Andy Booth has been cutting out <em>Cumbria<\/em>&#8216;s old tubes in readiness for a boiler examination last Thursday. Matt Anderson had removed the blast pipe, blower and brick arch in readiness for the re-tubing. The photo by Mike Rigg&#8217;s son last Wednesday shows the old tubes propped up against the front buffer beam.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2646\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/20220805_105602-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Matt Crabtree loading Cumbria's new tubes at Preston for transportation to Embsay\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/20220805_105602-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/20220805_105602-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/20220805_105602-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/>The new tubes were transported across to Embsay last Friday, with Matt Crabtreee on hand to perform the tricky exercise of extricating them from the FRT shed at Preston with the fork lift truck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The blog may have had a week off, but there hasn&#8217;t been any let up in action at Preston. There has been further progress with the repairs to Wootton Hall&#8217;s tender tank with Ian Massey welding in a new front plate last Tuesday. Matt Crabtree has also continued his welding work on the tank, seen &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/?p=2650\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday 8th August 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-2650","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\/2650","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=2650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2651,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650\/revisions\/2651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}