{"id":1947,"date":"2020-11-23T21:19:49","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T21:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.furnessrailwaytrust.org.uk\/about\/blog\/?p=1947"},"modified":"2020-11-23T21:20:52","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T21:20:52","slug":"monday-23rd-november-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeinspace.co.uk\/?p=1947","title":{"rendered":"Monday 23rd November 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following last week’s action packed blog, this week’s rendition is somewhat of a postscript.<\/p>\n

As readers will recall, Furness Railway No. 20’s boiler passed its out of frames steam test last Monday. During the course of that day it was apparent that there would be a small window of opportunity to unite the boiler with the loco’s frames using the RSR’s overhead crane two days later on Wednesday. This would be a win-win deal as the lowmac on which FR 20’s boiler was resting could then be used straight away for Walkden<\/em>‘s boiler. The following photos tell the tale:<\/p>\n

\"FRThe first job was to empty the RSR’s shed road and then for Sentinel Progress<\/em> to bring FR 20’s frames around from the FRT shed.<\/p>\n

\"TheThis, incidentally, left the FRT’s pit entirely clear for a clean up to commence.<\/p>\n

\"FRWith Ade as banksman, the boiler was lifted off the lowmac and is seen hanging above the frames in the RSR workshop.<\/p>\n

\"TheAfter some tweaking of the front right bottom of the smokebox, which had splayed out very slightly, the boiler was successfully reunited with the frames.<\/p>\n

\"TheAn added bonus was the chance to re-fit the chimney which Keith had thoughtfully extracted from the depths of the FRT shed.<\/p>\n

\"FRThe new combo was then shunted outside ready for despatch to the FRT shed.<\/p>\n

\"ProgressProgress<\/em> again did the honours.<\/p>\n

\"FRFR 20 was duly parked back in the FRT shed before 15.00 and, with assistance from Ade and Tim, Walkden<\/em>‘s boiler was put in place on the lowmac ready for its own journey towards hydraulic and steam tests.<\/p>\n

Finally, in other news, Cumbria<\/em> has undertaken a pre-Santa test train at Embsay and Keith has been to Bury last Thursday and also today to assist with 5643’s preparation for service there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Following last week’s action packed blog, this week’s rendition is somewhat of a postscript. As readers will recall, Furness Railway No. 20’s boiler passed its out of frames steam test last Monday. During the course of that day it was apparent that there would be a small window of opportunity to unite the boiler with … Continue reading Monday 23rd November 2020<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeinspace.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeinspace.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeinspace.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeinspace.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeinspace.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1947"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeinspace.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1949,"href":"https:\/\/lifeinspace.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947\/revisions\/1949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeinspace.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeinspace.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeinspace.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}