{"id":3618,"date":"2025-05-25T07:42:03","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T06:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/?p=3618"},"modified":"2025-05-25T07:42:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T06:42:03","slug":"friday-23rd-may-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/?p=3618","title":{"rendered":"Friday, 23rd May 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A quick update before we hit the Bank Holiday weekend.<br>Another 81 stays were caulked by Chris Rycroft yesterday both inside and outside the firebox of Great Western Railway 0-6-2T No. 5643 in the FRT shed at Preston. Only another 30 to do before this mammoth job is complete. Well done to all concerned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/ciac\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/CR-at-work-MR-photo-A-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Chris Rycroft at work caulking stays on 5643's throat plate. 22052025\" class=\"wp-image-1762\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>This morning saw the long awaited fitting of the new cylinder liners to 5643.<br>The liners had been machined to size at the Bury workshop of Riley and Son.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/ciac\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250523_100322-AT-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"one of 5643's cylinder liners ready for fitting\" class=\"wp-image-1763\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Freezing nitrogen dioxide was then use to shrink the cylinder liners. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/ciac\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250523_100330-AT-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"The freezing nitrogen dioxide arrives\" class=\"wp-image-1764\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new liners will again be skim bored in their new position and the piston heads and rings adjusted to suit.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/ciac\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG-20250523-WA0003-AM-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"A view of the cylinder liners in place with the surface frost melting\" class=\"wp-image-1765\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>It was a busy morning at Preston for FR 20 appeared on a low loader on its return from hire to the Tanfield Railway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/ciac\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG-20250523-WA0002-AM-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"FR 20 arrives back at Preston on 23rd May 2025\" class=\"wp-image-1766\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quick update before we hit the Bank Holiday weekend.Another 81 stays were caulked by Chris Rycroft yesterday both inside and outside the firebox of Great Western Railway 0-6-2T No. 5643 in the FRT shed at Preston. Only another 30 to do before this mammoth job is complete. Well done to all concerned. This morning &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/?p=3618\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friday, 23rd May 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-3618","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\/3618","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=3618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3619,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3618\/revisions\/3619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}