{"id":3310,"date":"2024-04-22T20:49:36","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T19:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.furnessrailwaytrust.org.uk\/about\/blog\/?p=3310"},"modified":"2024-04-22T20:49:36","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T19:49:36","slug":"monday-22nd-april-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/?p=3310","title":{"rendered":"Monday 22nd April 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3305\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/154_5454-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Dave in action at Appleby on the 23rd March 2010\" width=\"660\" height=\"990\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/154_5454-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/154_5454-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/154_5454-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/154_5454.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/>We start this week\u2019s blog with the very sad news that David Rimmer, former Membership Secretary and then (extremely) long time Treasurer of both the Lakeside Railway Society and the Furness Railway Trust, passed away at the age of 80 last Thursday, 18<sup>th<\/sup> April, after being diagnosed with cancer. David was a guard, booking office clerk and locomotive cleaner at Haverthwaite during the earlier days and became a stalwart of the Carriage and Wagon gang. He was also involved in the restorations of Great Western Railway 0-6-2T No. 5643 and Furness Railway No. 20 as well as being a keen supporter of the <em>Wootton Hall<\/em> project. David\u2019s presence at Preston was reduced in more recent times as he took on caring for his brother John who had suffered a stroke. However, although retiring from being Treasurer and a Trustee at the end of March 2022, he continued to look after the Gift Aid claims for the Trust. His loss will, we are sure, be keenly felt by all those who have worked with David over the best part of 50 years.<\/p>\n<p>David\u2019s funeral will be held at 2. 45 pm on Wednesday, 1<sup>st<\/sup> May at Springwood Crematorium, Springwood Avenue, Allerton L25 7UN. His family hopes that as many as possible of David\u2019s friends will be able to attend. Our sincere condolences go to brother John, sister Judith, brother in law Mike and the rest of David\u2019s family.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3306\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20240417_120856A-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Sam in charge of the hose during FR 20's boiler washout\" width=\"660\" height=\"880\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20240417_120856A-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20240417_120856A-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/>Last Wednesday saw FR 20 being given a boiler washout in preparation for its forthcoming cold inspection by the boiler surveyor on the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> May. Sam was in charge with the hose.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3307\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20240417_120945A-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"John and Jon in action with the hose and water pump\" width=\"660\" height=\"880\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20240417_120945A-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20240417_120945A-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/>John Dixon fed the hose to Sam whilst Jon Dixon operated the fire pump which he had coaxed into action after giving it a full service.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3308\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20240417_144501-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Keith clearing stay debris from 5643's firebox\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20240417_144501-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20240417_144501-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20240417_144501-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/>Ron Crowe has been drilling out more studs on the firebox backhead of 5643 whilst Keith has been removing more stays, seen here clearing stay debris from the foundation ring of the firebox.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3309\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20240417_144343A-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Jon Dixon painting 5643's buffer beam u\/c red\" width=\"660\" height=\"880\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20240417_144343A-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20240417_144343A-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/>Once he had finished his work with the fire pump, Jon Dixon took on painting 5643\u2019s buffer beam with undercoat red.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We start this week\u2019s blog with the very sad news that David Rimmer, former Membership Secretary and then (extremely) long time Treasurer of both the Lakeside Railway Society and the Furness Railway Trust, passed away at the age of 80 last Thursday, 18th April, after being diagnosed with cancer. David was a guard, booking office &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/?p=3310\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday 22nd April 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-3310","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\/3310","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=3310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3311,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3310\/revisions\/3311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}