{"id":3576,"date":"2025-02-24T21:06:36","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T21:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/?p=3576"},"modified":"2025-02-24T21:06:36","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T21:06:36","slug":"monday-24th-february-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/?p=3576","title":{"rendered":"Monday, 24th February 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The major event this last week has been the boring out of Great Western Railway 0-6-2T No. 5643\u2019s cylinders as a precursor to fitting the new cylinder liners. The first photo shows the borer located in the left hand cylinder and the motor, bottom right, connected to the borer drive by bands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/ciac\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/20250219_093016A-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"The borer at work on 5643's left hand cylinder\" class=\"wp-image-1644\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Chris Birmingham from Riley &amp; Son engineers of Bury was in charge of the operation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/20250219_093800.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The next stage in the process is the machining of the new liners to fit, which will take place at Bury, and then the shrink fitting of the new liners (cryogenics is the technical term) at Preston programmed for week commencing 3rd March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile Ron and Ed have been reaming out some more stay holes on 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\/20250219_153612-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Ed and Ron reaming stay holes on 5643\" class=\"wp-image-1647\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>We have now received news from Williton in Somerset that Caliban\u2019s inner firebox has now been removed:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/ciac\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Calibans-firebox-518x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Caliban's inner firebox removed at Williton\" class=\"wp-image-1648\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>With this in mind there has been more work this week on Caliban\u2019s cab. Jon and Sim have been attending to the interior, John Dixon has been pulling the metalwork back into shape, whilst Tim has made further progress with the cab exterior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/ciac\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/20250221_152021A-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Caliban's cab on the mend\" class=\"wp-image-1649\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sam has been preparing Furness Railway 0-4-0 No. 20 for its forthcoming boiler inspection, seen here taking the opportunity to give the safety valves a thorough clean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/ciac\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/20250222_142607-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Sam cleaning FR 20's safety valves\" class=\"wp-image-1650\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Some video here of the FRT\u2019s \u2018Austerity\u2019 0-6-ST Cumbria courtesy of Paul Newton who visited the Embsay &amp; Bolton Abbey Steam Railway on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/WhatsApp-Video-2025-02-21-at-16.16.56_69bf4219-1.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Finally, it has been Alan\u2019s turn to celebrate a birthday, seen here in the mess room with the obligatory cakes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/ciac\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/20250219_124847A-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Alan and the cakes\" class=\"wp-image-1652\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The major event this last week has been the boring out of Great Western Railway 0-6-2T No. 5643\u2019s cylinders as a precursor to fitting the new cylinder liners. The first photo shows the borer located in the left hand cylinder and the motor, bottom right, connected to the borer drive by bands. Chris Birmingham from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/?p=3576\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday, 24th 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":[],"class_list":["post-3576","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\/3576","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=3576"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3580,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3576\/revisions\/3580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}