{"id":3098,"date":"2023-10-09T21:41:32","date_gmt":"2023-10-09T20:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.furnessrailwaytrust.org.uk\/about\/blog\/?p=3098"},"modified":"2023-10-09T21:41:32","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T20:41:32","slug":"monday-9th-october-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/?p=3098","title":{"rendered":"Monday 9th October 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a short update this week after last week\u2019s lengthy blog.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3092\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/20231004_140452A-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Sam gingerly removes a washout plug from FR 20\" width=\"660\" height=\"880\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/20231004_140452A-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/20231004_140452A-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/>The boiler of Furness Railway No. 20 was successfully washed out on Friday as part of the process of winterising the locomotive. Sam had previously drained the boiler on Wednesday and loosened the plugs. Removing the bottom drain plug is quite a tricky task if you want to avoid an involuntary shower! The plug is located behind the injector which gets in the way of the rush of water and sprays it liberally in all directions. The photos show Sam gingerly removing the plug and then the aftermath!<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3093\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/20231004_140459A-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Sam trying to escape the rush of water from FR 20's boiler\" width=\"660\" height=\"880\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/20231004_140459A-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/20231004_140459A-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3094\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/20231006_132343-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"4979's front right coupling rod looking all the better after some attention from Fred's cup wire brush\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/20231006_132343-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/20231006_132343-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/20231006_132343-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/>Fred gave the newly acquired front right coupling rod for 4979 <em>Wootton Hall<\/em> a good polishing with his trusty cup wire brush.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3095\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/20231006_132402-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"5643's cut off superheater element block ends ready to go to Tyseley\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/20231006_132402-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/20231006_132402-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/20231006_132402-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/>Keith separated the superheater block ends from the rest of 5643\u2019s elements in readiness to take them to Tyseley for the elements to be renewed.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, there has some tidying up in the shed and some more small finishing jobs tackled in the Great Eastern Railway royal saloon No. 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a short update this week after last week\u2019s lengthy blog. The boiler of Furness Railway No. 20 was successfully washed out on Friday as part of the process of winterising the locomotive. Sam had previously drained the boiler on Wednesday and loosened the plugs. Removing the bottom drain plug is quite a tricky task &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/?p=3098\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday 9th October 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-3098","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\/3098","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=3098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3099,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3098\/revisions\/3099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}