{"id":3269,"date":"2024-03-18T21:33:53","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T21:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.furnessrailwaytrust.org.uk\/about\/blog\/?p=3269"},"modified":"2024-03-18T21:33:53","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T21:33:53","slug":"monday-18th-march-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/?p=3269","title":{"rendered":"Monday 18th March 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"KeithIt has been another week of steady progress on the overhaul of Great Western
\nRailway 0-6-2T locomotive No. 5643 at Preston. Keith was busy on
\nWednesday making adjustments to the right hand big end, where unwanted
\nmovement of the bearings had been detected during inspection.<\/p>\n

\"JohnJohn Dixon has continued his quest to clean up and paint those areas of the
\nframes not usually visible to the public.<\/p>\n

\"71Keith has now started to drill out stays on the left hand side of the firebox; his
\nwork on the right hand side so far can be seen here with 71 stay holes visible.<\/p>\n

\"AnneMore horse chestnut leaf patterned moquette for Great Eastern Railway royal
\nsaloon No. 5 has arrived this week to enable Anne and Phil Burton to re-cover
\nall the wooden chair seats. These will match the chaise longue.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere on the purchasing front, new cylinder liners for 5643 have been
\nsourced and ordered. They should be with us in late April if all goes to plan.<\/p>\n

\"PhotosIt has been a sad day for the FRT as a good number of members gathered at a very full Crosscrake Church near Kendal for the funeral of long-standing volunteer Fred Jones. His family arranged a display of photos charting his life at the wake, including one of Fred with his favourite wire cup brushes.<\/p>\n

Finally, on a brighter note, we are pleased to be able to report that former FRT Trustee and\u00a0Treasurer David Rimmer is now out of hospital and is in temporary care at\u00a0Huyton in preparation for moving home. We wish him well in his recovery.<\/p>\n

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It has been another week of steady progress on the overhaul of Great Western Railway 0-6-2T locomotive No. 5643 at Preston. Keith was busy on Wednesday making adjustments to the right hand big end, where unwanted movement of the bearings had been detected during inspection. John Dixon has continued his quest to clean up and … Continue reading Monday 18th March 2024<\/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-3269","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\/3269","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=3269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3271,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3269\/revisions\/3271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}