{"id":3106,"date":"2023-10-16T20:56:10","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T19:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.furnessrailwaytrust.org.uk\/about\/blog\/?p=3106"},"modified":"2023-10-16T20:56:10","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T19:56:10","slug":"monday-16th-october-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/?p=3106","title":{"rendered":"Monday 16th October 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3102\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/20231011_135709-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Anne Burton and John Davis working together on one of 5643's sandboxes\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/20231011_135709-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/20231011_135709-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/20231011_135709-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/>It was a down to earth week at Preston this last week as members spent much of their time working on 5643\u2019s frames and components. Anne Burton and John Davis are seen cleaning up one of 5643\u2019s sandboxes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3103\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/20231011_135745-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Phil Burton polishes one of 5643's coupling rods\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/20231011_135745-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/20231011_135745-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/20231011_135745-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/>&#8230; while Phil Burton polished one of 5643\u2019s coupling rods&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3104\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/20231011_135752-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Ed Tatham chips rust off 5643's frames\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/20231011_135752-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/20231011_135752-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/20231011_135752-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/>&#8230; and Ed chipped away at rust on the frames.<\/p>\n<p>Finally for this week, over at Embsay, the eccentric strap on \u2018Austerity\u2019 0-6-0ST <em>Cumbria<\/em> that had been causing concern has been removed to reveal that a strip of the side metal had come adrift. However, the main bearing metal was still intact. \u00a0Andy Booth took the offending strap away to work some of his magic on it and it is now expected to be refitted to the locomotive during the next day or so. Thanks, Andy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a down to earth week at Preston this last week as members spent much of their time working on 5643\u2019s frames and components. Anne Burton and John Davis are seen cleaning up one of 5643\u2019s sandboxes&#8230; &#8230; while Phil Burton polished one of 5643\u2019s coupling rods&#8230; &#8230; and Ed chipped away at rust &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/?p=3106\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday 16th 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-3106","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\/3106","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=3106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3107,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3106\/revisions\/3107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}