{"id":3355,"date":"2024-06-10T20:36:32","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T19:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.furnessrailwaytrust.org.uk\/about\/blog\/?p=3355"},"modified":"2024-06-10T20:36:32","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T19:36:32","slug":"monday-10th-june-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/?p=3355","title":{"rendered":"Monday 10th June 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We start this week\u2019s blog with the breaking news that Furness Railway locomotive No 20 will be visiting the West Somerset Railway from 16<sup>th<\/sup> to 21<sup>st<\/sup> July to celebrate the 150<sup>th<\/sup> Anniversary of the opening of the line between Watchet and Minehead. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.west-somerset-railway.co.uk\/events\/view\/the-150-event\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Full details of the event can be found here.<\/a> There will also be other visiting locomotives including the very recently outshopped Great Western Railway \u2018Grange\u2019 4-6-0 locomotive No. 6880 <em>Betton Grange<\/em>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.west-somerset-railway.co.uk\/news\/view\/furness-railway-locomotive-no-20-to-visit-west-somerset-railway-for-their-150-event-in-july-2024?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR3EPE_2ge0NTRIYia5MNdeNf5waSPflxc9_WNPnegtcLN9m5poX8vSypVw_aem_AUPBzlKZ3A2TUQqLBY7IugWmKLhrZK6VGaBT1z-GlVRGAGELY8tEhg03eNrWXvJ-Gd5iZLL2yEAWBiFbgLgKSMfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A press release is also available here<\/a>. Let\u2019s hope that we have some decent weather that week!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3350\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/20240605_143849-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"The mess room roof looking tidier\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/20240605_143849-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/20240605_143849-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/20240605_143849-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/>Some of you who have visited Preston in recent times will have noticed that the paintwork on \u2018FRT Towers\u2019 (our portacabin mess room) has started to look jaded \u2013 probably because we have been giving priority to painting our rolling stock. However, with the odd gap in the rain appearing during our very British summer, Sim has made a start on cleaning the roof of muck and rust and has been giving it a coat of red oxide. Hopefully the weather will allow the job to be completed before winter!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3351\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/20240605_144040-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"5643's inner smokebox ring looking in better health after welding\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/20240605_144040-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/20240605_144040-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/20240605_144040-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/>Back inside the FRT shed, there has been more work on Great Western Railway 0-6-2T No. 5643. Ian Massey spent some time welding up the inner smokebox ring last Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3352\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/20240607_134042A-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"5643's firebox cladding plates in undercoat grey\" width=\"660\" height=\"880\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/20240607_134042A-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/20240607_134042A-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/>Tim has been rubbing down the firebox cladding sheets which have now received grey undercoat on the inner faces.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3353\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/20240607_135003A-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"John Dixon removes the vacuum pipe from 5643\" width=\"660\" height=\"880\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/20240607_135003A-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/20240607_135003A-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/>The next task will be to rub down and paint the outer sides of the frames. John Dixon is seen here removing the vacuum pipe to enable full access to the frames. The steam heat pipe on the other side has also been removed for that same purpose.<\/p>\n<p>This next weekend will see Furness Railway No. 20 in service on the Ribble Steam Railway with Great Eastern Railway royal saloon No. 5 joining in on Sunday, Father\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We start this week\u2019s blog with the breaking news that Furness Railway locomotive No 20 will be visiting the West Somerset Railway from 16th to 21st July to celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the opening of the line between Watchet and Minehead. Full details of the event can be found here. There will also be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/?p=3355\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday 10th June 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-3355","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\/3355","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=3355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3356,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3355\/revisions\/3356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}