{"id":3669,"date":"2025-10-28T10:50:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T10:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/?p=3669"},"modified":"2025-10-27T20:51:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T20:51:53","slug":"monday-27th-october-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/?p=3669","title":{"rendered":"Monday, 27th October 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Furness Railway locomotive No. 20 arrived back at Preston last Tuesday morning after its appearances at the East Lancashire Railway\u2019s \u2018Rail 200\u2019 and Autumn Steam Galas. As ever, it was well supported by the FRT\u2019s working members who made sure that the loco\u2019s paint and brasswork were polished. The photo below showing work in hand prior to it&#8217;s operation at the Autumn Steam Gala.<\/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\/20251017_100851-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"FR 20 being prepared for service at the ELR's Autumn Steam Gala\" class=\"wp-image-1959\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>The loco is seen here at Summerseat with a train for Ramsbottom. The FRT\u2019s Great Eastern Railway royal saloon No. 5 can be seen at the rear of the train.<\/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\/20251017_170710-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"FR 20 at Somerseat with a train to Ramsbottom\" class=\"wp-image-1960\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>The sales team also made sure that visitors had the opportunity to take away some souvenirs: Anne and Phil Burton are pictured with the sales stand on Friday, 17th October.<\/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\/20251017_123047-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Anne and Phil Burton with the FRT sales stand at Bury\" class=\"wp-image-1962\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>FR 20\u2019s tender has now been filled with water in readiness to enable a high pressure boiler washout to be conducted using the FRT\u2019s Coventry Climax fire pump once the spark arrestor and plugs have been removed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Meanwhile work continues at Preston on the overhaul of Great Western Railway 0-6-2T No. 5643 where there has been a certain amount of satisfaction in seeing some components being returned to the frames. Both injectors have been re-fitted, the right-hand side being seen here:<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\/10\/20251022_151726-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"5643's right hand injector refitted\" class=\"wp-image-1963\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of the lubrication pipework is also now back in place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Finally, we have left the big news of the week until last. The FRT\u2019s Christmas Dinner is to take place at 7pm on Friday, 5th December at the Pig &amp; Whistle which is situated on a main bus route on Blackpool Road, Lea, Preston. The festive menu offers two courses for \u00a315.99 and three courses for \u00a319.49.<br>Please let Alison know if you wish to attend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furness Railway locomotive No. 20 arrived back at Preston last Tuesday morning after its appearances at the East Lancashire Railway\u2019s \u2018Rail 200\u2019 and Autumn Steam Galas. As ever, it was well supported by the FRT\u2019s working members who made sure that the loco\u2019s paint and brasswork were polished. The photo below showing work in hand &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/?p=3669\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday, 27th 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-3669","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\/3669","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=3669"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3671,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3669\/revisions\/3671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}