{"id":3740,"date":"2026-08-21T10:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T09:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/?p=3740"},"modified":"2026-08-21T10:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T09:42:07","slug":"monday-17th-august-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/?p=3740","title":{"rendered":"Monday, 17th August 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Work is continuing at Preston on the overhaul of Great Western Railway 0-6-2T No. 5643 where the cross heads have been refitted. Keith and Ron are seen here refitting the left-hand cylinder cover.<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\/2026\/08\/20260805_140021-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Keith Brewer and Ron Crowe re-fitting 5643's left hand front cylinder cover.\" class=\"wp-image-2222\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Both cylinder covers are now in place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/ciac\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/20260808_171603-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Both of 5643's front cylinder covers re-fitted\" class=\"wp-image-2223\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile the saddletank of \u2018Austerity\u2019 0-6-0ST Cumbria has received a second coat of Indian Red paint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/ciac\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/20260812_155329-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"A second coat of Indian Red paint has been applied to Cumbria's saddletank\" class=\"wp-image-2224\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Paul Kelly and Jon Dixon have been painting the boiler cladding plates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/ciac\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/20260805_141852-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Paul Kelly and Jon Dixon painting Cumbria's boiler cladding plates.\" class=\"wp-image-2225\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Cumbria\u2019s chassis is at Statfold Engineering where new white metal has been added to all the eccentric straps and machined. Current work includes re-metalling the big ends. The overhaul of 5643\u2019s boiler is in progress at the premises of Riley &amp; Son at Bury; Cumbria\u2019s boiler continues to receive attention at the Ropley boiler shop on the Mid-Hants Railway where all the crown stays have been removed for replacement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Work is continuing at Preston on the overhaul of Great Western Railway 0-6-2T No. 5643 where the cross heads have been refitted. Keith and Ron are seen here refitting the left-hand cylinder cover. Both cylinder covers are now in place. Meanwhile the saddletank of \u2018Austerity\u2019 0-6-0ST Cumbria has received a second coat of Indian Red &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/?p=3740\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday, 17th August 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-3740","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\/3740","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=3740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3741,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3740\/revisions\/3741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}