{"id":3643,"date":"2025-07-29T21:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T20:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/?p=3643"},"modified":"2025-07-29T21:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T20:00:07","slug":"monday-28th-july-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/?p=3643","title":{"rendered":"Monday, 28th July 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The overhaul of Great Western Railway 0-6-2T No. 5643 continues to progress with Chris Rycroft completing the caulking of the remaining new stays.<br>Work also continues on the side tanks and the boiler bands are being re-painted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/ciac\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_20250716_174842578A-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Chris Rycroft finishing the caulking of 5643's new stays\" class=\"wp-image-1855\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>The other main news this week concerns the departure from Preston of Furness Railway No. 20 last Monday to take part in The Greatest Gathering at Derby on the 1 st , 2 nd and 3 rd August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/ciac\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250721_144834-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"FR 20 almost ready to set off to Derby on Monday, 21st July 2025\" class=\"wp-image-1853\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>The photo below shows it at Derby last Wednesday with fellow 1863 built locomotive Prince in the background arriving from the Ffestiniog Railway.<br>This Wednesday will see the loading of cars to take sales stock down to Derby on Thursday. Let\u2019s hope for good weather there!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/ciac\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/6872746136150894814-Arthur-Malins-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"FR 20 at Derby with FR Prince arriving in the background\" class=\"wp-image-1854\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Finally, Live Steam have been booked to play at The Greatest Gathering so a rare band practice took place last Tuesday morning following which Tim made a presentation on the new book, Furness Railway Locomotive No. 20 \u2013 The Story So Far, to the Kents Bank Station Railway Library. Internet sales have<br>been ticking along nicely with over 30 books now sold over the internet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/ciac\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_3616-1024x722.jpg\" alt=\"Tim at the Kents Bank Station Railway Library presenting the new book on FR 20\" class=\"wp-image-1856\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The overhaul of Great Western Railway 0-6-2T No. 5643 continues to progress with Chris Rycroft completing the caulking of the remaining new stays.Work also continues on the side tanks and the boiler bands are being re-painted. The other main news this week concerns the departure from Preston of Furness Railway No. 20 last Monday to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/?p=3643\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday, 28th July 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-3643","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\/3643","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=3643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3644,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3643\/revisions\/3644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}