{"id":2810,"date":"2023-02-01T21:15:03","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T21:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.furnessrailwaytrust.org.uk\/about\/blog\/?p=2810"},"modified":"2023-02-01T21:15:03","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T21:15:03","slug":"tuesday-31st-january-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/?p=2810","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday 31st January 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apologies for the lack of a blog since Christmas caused by post-Christmas
\nillness. However, that hasn\u2019t stopped the rest of the troops from making good
\nprogress over the last month.<\/p>\n

We are pleased to report that our folk group formed of Alan, Tim, Pete and
\nGeorge got the New Year off to a good start at the Engine Inn, Cark-in-Cartmel
\nwith the audience seemingly having a good time.<\/p>\n

\"JohnPhil Bell and John Davis have been working hard in the kitchen of Great
\nEastern Railway royal saloon No. 5 with John seen here fitting new tiles.<\/p>\n

\"PhilPhil and Anne Burton have continued their work on the chaise longue in the
\neast saloon with Phil pictured here.<\/p>\n

\"OneThe new window straps have arrived and await fitting.<\/p>\n

\"NewSome new cylinder lubrication pipework has appeared on No. 4979 Wootton<\/em>
\nHall<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Team 5643 have paid two visits to Bury to prepare 5643 for its return home to
\nPreston, it having successfully completed its last scheduled steaming on the
\nEast Lancashire Railway on the 27th December; the extended ten year boiler
\ncertificate officially expired on the 8th January. The guard irons have been
\nremoved as well as the brick arch and the engine was steamed cleaned last
\nThursday.<\/p>\n

\"Caliban'sCaliban<\/em>\u2019s boiler was subjected to non-destructive testing on Monday, 23rd
\nJanuary. The initial results were encouraging and we await the final report.<\/p>\n

Cumbria<\/em> had been well used at the Embsay & Bolton Abbey Steam Railway
\nfollowing its re-tube and subsequent return to traffic at the end of October.<\/p>\n

Alan, Ade, Tim and John Dixon visited Embsay yesterday to discuss winter
\nmaintenance. It was agreed that one of the eccentrics needs to be re-metalled
\nand this will be brought to Preston once it has been dismantled.<\/p>\n

Needless to say, the opportunity was also taken to look at Stephen Middleton\u2019\u2019s collection of coaches, including the Great Eastern Railway royal saloon of 1877 built for\u00a0the then Prince of Wales. It was fascinating to compare this early build coach\u00a0with our own GER No. 5 which was built in 1898 for the Princess of
\nWales!<\/p>\n

Finally, we have had to incur some unexpected expenditure in repairing the
\nentrance door to the FRT shed, which was completed today. Unfortunately
\nthis has resulted in the replacement of the lock, so new keys will need to be
\nissued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Apologies for the lack of a blog since Christmas caused by post-Christmas illness. However, that hasn\u2019t stopped the rest of the troops from making good progress over the last month. We are pleased to report that our folk group formed of Alan, Tim, Pete and George got the New Year off to a good start … Continue reading Tuesday 31st January 2023<\/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-2810","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\/2810","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=2810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2811,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2810\/revisions\/2811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}