{"id":3552,"date":"2024-12-23T21:24:25","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T21:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/?p=3552"},"modified":"2024-12-23T21:24:25","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T21:24:25","slug":"monday-23rd-december-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/?p=3552","title":{"rendered":"Monday, 23rd December 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We find ourselves once again heading towards the end of another year, one that will be memorable amongst other things for successful visits with Furness Railway 0-4-0 No. 20 to the West Somerset and East Lancashire Railways, some excellent progress with the overhaul of Great Western Railway 0-6-2T No. 5643, the despatch of Peckett 0-4-0ST Caliban\u2019s boiler to Williton for overhaul as well as the production of new castings for its motion. Volunteers have met new challenges with boiler work on 5643 and also overcome, with some difficulty for the more elderly, the art of getting out of a deep Premier Inn bath.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The past couple of weeks have seen more progress with drilling out stays on 5643\u2019s boiler (the vast majority now done) and the tapping of stay holes of which over 100 are finished and mostly fitted with new stays \u2013 just the caulking to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The batch of 550 new nuts has been received from Williton, with Keith seen here testing one on a stay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Keith<\/figure>\n\n\n\n


5643\u2019s main steam pipe has been away for shotblasting and three of the engine\u2019s driving wheel springs have had their holes re-bushed to give a better fit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Keith<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

They have then been re-fitted on to the locomotive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Keith<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Sam has removed and cleaned FR 20\u2019s washout plugs and the ashpan has been removed for Sim to clean and paint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Sim<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Jon has been giving the Coventry Climax fire pump yet another overhaul, this time including a full clean, emptying of the fuel tank, and the fitting of new leads. This will hopefully reduce the lead time in getting this 70 year old machine into action when boiler washouts are arranged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Jon<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The latest edition of The Iron Horse magazine is with the printer and should be out early in the New Year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Ribble Steam Railway\u2019s Santa Specials concluded yesterday, with Ade driving Bagnall 0-6-0ST Courageous on its last day in service before a 10 year boiler overhaul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Courageous<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

There will be working parties at Preston on Friday, 27 th , and Saturday, 28 th December. The normal Wednesday\/Friday\/Saturday pattern of working days will re-commence on Friday, 3 rd January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Finally, our folk group, Live Steam will once again be performing at the Engine Inn, Cark-in-Cartmel on New Year\u2019s Eve, so do come along if you are in the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best wishes from the blog team go to everyone for a merry Christmas and a very prosperous and productive New Year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We find ourselves once again heading towards the end of another year, one that will be memorable amongst other things for successful visits with Furness Railway 0-4-0 No. 20 to the West Somerset and East Lancashire Railways, some excellent progress with the overhaul of Great Western Railway 0-6-2T No. 5643, the despatch of Peckett 0-4-0ST … Continue reading Monday, 23rd December 2024<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3552","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\/3552","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3553,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3552\/revisions\/3553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}