{"id":3665,"date":"2025-10-14T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/?p=3665"},"modified":"2025-10-13T19:24:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T18:24:21","slug":"monday-13th-october-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/?p=3665","title":{"rendered":"Monday, 13th October 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There has been more work this week at Preston on Great Western Railway 0-6-2T No 5643 as the ten-year overhaul continues. Ed is seen here entering the water space at the bottom of the bunker.<\/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\/10\/20251008_141106-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Ed disappears into the water space at the bottom of 5643's bunker\" class=\"wp-image-1948\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The outside of the bunker has now been painted in undercoat green.<\/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\/10\/20251010_152551A-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"5643's bunker now sports a coat of undercoat green\" class=\"wp-image-1949\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile folk group Live Steam played for Barrow Model Railway Club members and exhibitors at the annual exhibition on Saturday. The observant of you will notice that the venue was a brewery!<\/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\/10\/IMG-20251012-WA0001-AP-A-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Live Steam play at the Ulverston Brewing Company's premises\" class=\"wp-image-1950\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sam and John Dixon made the trip to Bury on Saturday to clean and polish Furness Railway No. 20 which is scheduled to be in service at the East Lancashire Railway\u2019s Autumn Steam Gala along with Great Eastern Railway royal saloon No. 5 this next Friday, Saturday and Sunday.<\/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\/10\/IMG-20251011-WA0001-SM-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"FR 20 shining after attention from Sam and John\" class=\"wp-image-1951\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, FR 20 and GER 5 are due to arrive back at Preston on Wednesday, 22<sup>nd<\/sup> October.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has been more work this week at Preston on Great Western Railway 0-6-2T No 5643 as the ten-year overhaul continues. Ed is seen here entering the water space at the bottom of the bunker. The outside of the bunker has now been painted in undercoat green. Meanwhile folk group Live Steam played for Barrow &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/?p=3665\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday, 13th October 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-3665","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\/3665","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=3665"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3667,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3665\/revisions\/3667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}