{"id":3687,"date":"2026-01-13T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/?p=3687"},"modified":"2026-01-26T21:01:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T21:01:24","slug":"12th-january-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/?p=3687","title":{"rendered":"Monday, 12th January 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A belated Happy New Year to all our members and supporters! It has been a varied start to the year for some of our volunteers.
Our folk group, Live Steam, played their annual New Year\u2019s Eve gig at the Engine Inn, Cark-in-Cartmel to a very appreciative audience. Representation from station volunteers at Cark and Kents Bank stations was a good excuse to include some railway songs in the set list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The afternoon of the 5th January saw the arrival at the Ribble Steam Railway of the Railway 200 Inspiration Train which has been touring the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The opening ceremony of the visit was featured on the Tuesday evening edition of BBC\u2019s Northwest Tonight programme and you may recognise some of those included on the clip: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QCxC8sjfEhU<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n


A number of FRT members provided voluntary assistance during the four days that the train was open to both schools and the general public. Alan is seen here giving a presentation on Furness Railway No. 20 in the Partnership coach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The train hauled, by 66 719 Michael Portillo, must have enjoyed its stay as it didn\u2019t want to leave; it took six attempts to start the locomotive when it came time to depart on Friday evening! Overall, the visit was deemed to be a great success and it was good to see new members joining both the Ribble Steam Railway and the Furness Railway Trust as a result of the exposure to the public of the work of both organisations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Elsewhere, members have been busy in the FRT shed preparing \u2018Austerity\u2019 0-6-0ST Cumbria\u2019s boiler for its forthcoming Non-Destructive Test examination on the 19th January. We are pleased to welcome Dave Thomas who joined the gang last Wednesday and immediately joined the work on Cumbria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Unfortunately, the shed\u2019s air source heat pump heating system failed in December after a dozen years of reliable service, providing a challenge to everyone to keep warm. The good news is that the heating engineers have now been in attendance and the system is on the mend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A belated Happy New Year to all our members and supporters! It has been a varied start to the year for some of our volunteers.Our folk group, Live Steam, played their annual New Year\u2019s Eve gig at the Engine Inn, Cark-in-Cartmel to a very appreciative audience. Representation from station volunteers at Cark and Kents Bank … Continue reading Monday, 12th January 2026<\/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-3687","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\/3687","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=3687"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3694,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3687\/revisions\/3694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}