{"id":3026,"date":"2023-08-14T22:08:39","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T21:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.furnessrailwaytrust.org.uk\/about\/blog\/?p=3026"},"modified":"2023-08-14T22:08:39","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T21:08:39","slug":"monday-14th-august-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/?p=3026","title":{"rendered":"Monday 14th August 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a case of never mind the width, feel the quality this week!?! So just a short<br \/>\nupdate with a couple of pieces of good news.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3023\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/FR-20-after-repair-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"A view of FR 20 after repair. Just a bit of touching up of the black paint required!\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/FR-20-after-repair-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/FR-20-after-repair-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/FR-20-after-repair-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/FR-20-after-repair-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/>Firstly, Furness Railway No. 20 has been re-assembled after repairs to its<br \/>\nright-hand piston head, cylinder cover and crossheads. An in-steam test to<br \/>\ncheck that all is now well is due to take place on the Pontypool &amp; Blaenavon<br \/>\nRailway this Sunday. Sam and Alan have kindly volunteered to make the<br \/>\njourney down to South Wales for the occasion.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3024\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/20230811_135753-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"The chaise longue ready for passengers\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/20230811_135753-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/20230811_135753-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/20230811_135753-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/>Secondly, at long last and after some struggles and enforced learning, the<br \/>\nrepairs and re-upholstering of the chaise longue in the east saloon of Great<br \/>\nEastern Railway royal saloon No. 5 have been completed. It should be<br \/>\nemphasised that this has been done entirely in house, so well done to all<br \/>\nconcerned. John Dixon has, as can be seen from the photo, also completed the<br \/>\njob of covering of the east saloon floor with plywood, ready for the new carpet<br \/>\nto be laid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a case of never mind the width, feel the quality this week!?! So just a short update with a couple of pieces of good news. Firstly, Furness Railway No. 20 has been re-assembled after repairs to its right-hand piston head, cylinder cover and crossheads. An in-steam test to check that all is now well &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/?p=3026\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday 14th August 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-3026","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\/3026","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=3026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3027,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3026\/revisions\/3027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}