{"id":3139,"date":"2023-11-13T20:33:52","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T20:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.furnessrailwaytrust.org.uk\/about\/blog\/?p=3139"},"modified":"2023-11-13T20:36:46","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T20:36:46","slug":"monday-13th-november-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/?p=3139","title":{"rendered":"Monday 13th November 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3134\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231108_135137A-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Ed cleaning paint from 5643's running plate\" width=\"660\" height=\"825\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231108_135137A-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231108_135137A-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231108_135137A-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231108_135137A.jpg 1560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/>Work has continued on the frames of Great Western Railway 0-6-2T No. 5643. Ed is seen cleaning paint off the running plate.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3135\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231108_135156A-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Jon Dixon painting 5643\" width=\"660\" height=\"880\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231108_135156A-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231108_135156A-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/>Jon Dixon has been catching up with some painting underneath.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3136\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231110_141524A-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"John Dixon warming up Sam's nuts\" width=\"660\" height=\"880\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231110_141524A-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231110_141524A-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/>Sam has been attempting to remove the nuts that hold the rear cylinder covers in place, the bottom nuts being particularly stubborn. John Dixon has been applying some gas heat to loosen them off.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3137\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231110_152206A-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Some welcome progress on the exterior of Wootton Hall's tender tank\" width=\"660\" height=\"880\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231110_152206A-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231110_152206A-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/>Elsewhere, Phil Bell has been working in the kitchen of Great Eastern Railway royal saloon No. 5 to replace missing drawers. Keith has been applying some more two-pack primer inside the tender of Great Western Railway \u2018Hall\u2019 class 4-6-0 No. 4979 <em>Wootton Hall<\/em> and is intending to conduct another water test shortly. Meanwhile Tim has been attending to the \u2018ploughed field\u2019 surface on the exterior of the water tank. Much of the left hand side has now received a skim of filler which has been sanded. A first coat of primer is being applied which has the added benefit of highlighting areas that need further attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Work has continued on the frames of Great Western Railway 0-6-2T No. 5643. Ed is seen cleaning paint off the running plate. Jon Dixon has been catching up with some painting underneath. Sam has been attempting to remove the nuts that hold the rear cylinder covers in place, the bottom nuts being particularly stubborn. John &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/?p=3139\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday 13th November 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-3139","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\/3139","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=3139"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3141,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3139\/revisions\/3141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}