{"id":3727,"date":"2026-07-29T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/?p=3727"},"modified":"2026-07-28T21:15:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T20:15:22","slug":"tuesday-28th-july-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/?p=3727","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday, 28th July 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Work at Preston recently has continued with the overhauls of Great Western Railway 0-6-2T No. 5643 and Hunslet \u2018Austerity\u2019 0-6-0ST Cumbria.<br>Keith, Dave, Ed, Ron and (new boy) Graham have been working to fit the crossheads on 5643, discovering in the process that some machining of the crossheads is required since the fit of the pistons in the re-lined cylinders is somewhat tighter than before. This leaves less room for play in the motion, which of course is a good thing, but has necessitated some adjustment to enable the pistons to travel freely. Dave, Graham and Keith are seen lifting one of the slide bars into place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3729\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image.png 1024w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-768x576.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Cumbria\u2019s saddle tank has received undercoat red and Paul Kelly is seen marking out the areas of black lining which has since been applied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3731\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-1.png 768w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-1-225x300.png 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Jon and Sim have started the process of applying undercoat to the cladding sheets.<br>Meanwhile John has continued his re-build of Cumbria\u2019s ashpan, which had become heavily distorted. John tells us that the end is in sight for this project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3732\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-2.png 1024w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-2-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-2-768x576.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some work still continues on the laborious task of cleaning old paint from the saddle tank for former Furness Railway 0-4-0 No. 25. Ed is pictured taking a break from the job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3734\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-3.png 1024w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-3-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-3-768x576.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, members should now be receiving their copies of the latest edition of The Iron Horse, which comes with an invitation to attend the Annual General Meeting on the 9th September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"714\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-4.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3735\" srcset=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-4.png 714w, https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-4-209x300.png 209w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 714px) 100vw, 714px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Work at Preston recently has continued with the overhauls of Great Western Railway 0-6-2T No. 5643 and Hunslet \u2018Austerity\u2019 0-6-0ST Cumbria.Keith, Dave, Ed, Ron and (new boy) Graham have been working to fit the crossheads on 5643, discovering in the process that some machining of the crossheads is required since the fit of the pistons &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/?p=3727\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tuesday, 28th July 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-3727","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\/3727","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=3727"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3738,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3727\/revisions\/3738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}