{"id":3571,"date":"2025-02-17T21:30:06","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T21:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/?p=3571"},"modified":"2025-02-17T21:30:06","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T21:30:06","slug":"monday-17th-february-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/?p=3571","title":{"rendered":"Monday, 17th February 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Alison went to the Runshaw College Volunteering Fair on Thursday along with colleagues from the Ribble Steam Railway in order to advertise volunteering opportunities at Preston. Alison is seen here alongside the brand new upstand that has been acquired to publicise the work of the Trust. There is, incidentally, also a good photo of Alison in the latest edition of Heritage Railway magazine in an article that features both the Ribble Steam Railway and the Furness Railway Trust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/ciac\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG-20250213-WA0002AP-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Alison at Runshaw College with the FRT's new publicity upstand\" class=\"wp-image-1622\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Chris Rycroft started the work of caulking up the newly fitted stays on Great Western Railway 0-6-2T No. 5643\u2019s firebox on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/ciac\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/20250214_105945-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1623\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ed and Ron spent Saturday together in 5643\u2019s firebox reaming out more stay holes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ed and Ron in 5643\u2019s firebox<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/ciac\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/20250215_143931-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1625\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Work towards fitting the new cylinder liners on 5643 is expected to start tomorrow (Tuesday) morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Andy Booth finished tapping out the fusible plugs on Furness Railway No. 20\u2019s firebox on Saturday with some assistance from Sam. This was not an easy job with the brick arch still in situ, but two sets of hands did the trick. Alan has been making shims to reduce the unwanted movement around No. 20\u2019s left hand little end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/ciac\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/20250215_145519A-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Alan making shims for FR 20's motion\" class=\"wp-image-1626\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alison went to the Runshaw College Volunteering Fair on Thursday along with colleagues from the Ribble Steam Railway in order to advertise volunteering opportunities at Preston. Alison is seen here alongside the brand new upstand that has been acquired to publicise the work of the Trust. There is, incidentally, also a good photo of Alison &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/?p=3571\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday, 17th February 2025<\/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":[6,2,3],"class_list":["post-3571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-fr20","tag-heritage","tag-steam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3571","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=3571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3572,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3571\/revisions\/3572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}