{"id":2883,"date":"2023-04-03T21:09:23","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T20:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.furnessrailwaytrust.org.uk\/about\/blog\/?p=2883"},"modified":"2023-04-03T21:09:23","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T20:09:23","slug":"monday-3rd-april-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/?p=2883","title":{"rendered":"Monday 3rd April 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2873\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/20230329_133720-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"FR 20 ready to head south\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/20230329_133720-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/20230329_133720-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/20230329_133720-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/>As planned, Furness Railway No. 20 was loaded onto a Reid Freight transporter on Wednesday morning before setting off on its journey to Didcot Railway\u00a0Centre, stopping off at Stoke overnight. After unloading at Didcot yard on Thursday morning the loco was the subject of an ultrasonic examination of its axles and a fitness to run examination before being shunted across the main line into the Didcot Railway Centre on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2874\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/FR-20-Didcot-with-4079-1024x768.png\" alt=\"FR 20 with 4079 Pendennis Castle\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/FR-20-Didcot-with-4079-1024x768.png 1024w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/FR-20-Didcot-with-4079-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/FR-20-Didcot-with-4079-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/FR-20-Didcot-with-4079.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/>There was just time to take a photo of FR 20 posed alongside Great Western Railway \u2018Castle\u2019 Class 4-6-0 Pendennis Castle before it was shunted under cover. Alan and Alison have set off to Didcot from Preston today as the advance party although departure was somewhat delayed owing to the failure of the car battery. We hope that their luck improves! Sam, John Dixon and Keith are also heading south to Didcot this weekend.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2875\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/20230331_114143-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"John Dixon at work with 5643's steam heating pipework\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/20230331_114143-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/20230331_114143-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/20230331_114143-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/>Meanwhile, the work to dismantle GWR 0-6-2 No. 5643 continues. John Dixon has been uncoupling the steam heat pipework under the bunker.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2877\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/20230403_104431A-731x1024.jpg\" alt=\"The six superheater elements extracted\" width=\"660\" height=\"925\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/20230403_104431A-731x1024.jpg 731w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/20230403_104431A-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/20230403_104431A-768x1076.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/>Sam went into the smokebox before attending to the superheater elements.\u00a0We are pleased to be able to report that, after a bit of a struggle with one of them, the elements were successfully removed.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2878 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/20230401_135657A-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Keith at work with one of the injector water valves\" width=\"660\" height=\"880\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/20230401_135657A-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/20230401_135657A-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/>Keith is pictured at work with one of the injector water valves.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2879\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/20230331_114004-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Matthew cleaning the royal sink\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/20230331_114004-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/20230331_114004-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/20230331_114004-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/>Work has also continued in Great Eastern Railway Royal Saloon No. 5 where Matthew gave the toilet sink a much needed clean.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, good news from Embsay: the FRT\u2019s \u2018Austerity\u2019 0-6-0ST <em>Cumbria<\/em> passed its 14 month steam test last Tuesday and has had a broken spring changed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As planned, Furness Railway No. 20 was loaded onto a Reid Freight transporter on Wednesday morning before setting off on its journey to Didcot Railway\u00a0Centre, stopping off at Stoke overnight. After unloading at Didcot yard on Thursday morning the loco was the subject of an ultrasonic examination of its axles and a fitness to run &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/?p=2883\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday 3rd April 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-2883","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\/2883","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=2883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2884,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883\/revisions\/2884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}