{"id":3113,"date":"2023-10-23T21:15:57","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T20:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.furnessrailwaytrust.org.uk\/about\/blog\/?p=3113"},"modified":"2023-10-23T21:15:57","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T20:15:57","slug":"monday-23rd-october-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/?p=3113","title":{"rendered":"Monday 23rd October 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3110\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/20231018_110552-e1698089234430-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"The new driver's brake valve for Wootton Hall\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/20231018_110552-e1698089234430-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/20231018_110552-e1698089234430-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/20231018_110552-e1698089234430-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/>Keith visited Tyseley Loco Works last Tuesday and picked up the long-awaited brand new driver\u2019s brake valve for GWR \u2018Hall\u2019 class 4-6-0 No. 4979 <em>Wootton Hall<\/em>. This should just about complete the cab fittings required for the locomotive.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3111\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/20231018_110631A-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"One of the two new steam heating valves for Wootton Hall\" width=\"660\" height=\"880\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/20231018_110631A-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/20231018_110631A-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/>Keith had also arranged to pick up two new steam heat valves for <em>Wootton Hall<\/em> which had been machined up, one of them being seen here.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday saw all the small tubes removed from GWR 0-6-2T No. 5643. Just the six flue tubes now remain, and these will be removed this Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3109\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Resized_20231005_112540-AB.jpg\" alt=\"The eccentric strap from Cumbria which needed repair\" width=\"719\" height=\"719\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Resized_20231005_112540-AB.jpg 719w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Resized_20231005_112540-AB-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Resized_20231005_112540-AB-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 719px) 100vw, 719px\" \/>And there was good news from Embsay last Thursday in that \u2018Austerity\u2019 0-6-0ST <em>Cumbria<\/em> passed an in-steam test following the repair to one of its eccentric straps by Andy Booth. The above photo shows the strap with the side piece of metal that had fallen away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keith visited Tyseley Loco Works last Tuesday and picked up the long-awaited brand new driver\u2019s brake valve for GWR \u2018Hall\u2019 class 4-6-0 No. 4979 Wootton Hall. This should just about complete the cab fittings required for the locomotive. Keith had also arranged to pick up two new steam heat valves for Wootton Hall which had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/?p=3113\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday 23rd 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-3113","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\/3113","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=3113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3114,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3113\/revisions\/3114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}