{"id":2840,"date":"2023-02-27T19:52:45","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T19:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.furnessrailwaytrust.org.uk\/about\/blog\/?p=2840"},"modified":"2023-02-27T19:52:45","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T19:52:45","slug":"monday-27th-february-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeinspace.co.uk\/?p=2840","title":{"rendered":"Monday 27th February 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2835\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeinspace.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230222_120612-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Washing out 5643's boiler\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lifeinspace.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230222_120612-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lifeinspace.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230222_120612-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lifeinspace.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230222_120612-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/>The main job last Wednesday morning was the planned wash out of 5643\u2019s boiler. Jonathan Dixon, who was a LRS member from many years ago and who has long experience with fire pumps, kindly joined us and managed to start the FRT\u2019s own fire pump first time! Sam again volunteered to be the man on the hose and the job was completed in time for lunch. We are pleased to say that Jonathan has now joined the FRT and we hope to see him and his dog \u00a0Max again before too long.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2834\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeinspace.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230215_152026A-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Alan repairing Cumbria's regulator quadranr\" width=\"660\" height=\"880\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lifeinspace.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230215_152026A-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lifeinspace.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230215_152026A-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/>Back in the FRT shed, Alan has been repairing <em>Cumbria<\/em>\u2019s regulator quadrant, making a new stop for it, which we hope will be more robust than the original.<\/p>\n<p>Work has continued on Great Eastern Railway Royal Saloon No. 5, although Phil Bell has been thwarted by the failure of the table saw which has temporarily prevented him from manufacturing some new wooden mouldings. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2837\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeinspace.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230224_155640A-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"John Dixon fitting a new set of window scissors to GER No. 5\" width=\"660\" height=\"880\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lifeinspace.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230224_155640A-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lifeinspace.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230224_155640A-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/>John Dixon has made strides with the task of inserting a set of window support scissors on one of the doors which, for some reason, were missing.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2836\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeinspace.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230222_124614A-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Cake at last!\" width=\"660\" height=\"880\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lifeinspace.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230222_124614A-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lifeinspace.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/20230222_124614A-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/>Finally, you will all be pleased to learn that Ade finally managed to get his hands on some of Alan\u2019s birthday cake! (See last week&#8217;s blog if this doesn&#8217;t make any sense!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The main job last Wednesday morning was the planned wash out of 5643\u2019s boiler. Jonathan Dixon, who was a LRS member from many years ago and who has long experience with fire pumps, kindly joined us and managed to start the FRT\u2019s own fire pump first time! Sam again volunteered to be the man on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lifeinspace.co.uk\/?p=2840\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday 27th February 2023<\/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-2840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeinspace.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2840","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=2840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeinspace.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2841,"href":"https:\/\/lifeinspace.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2840\/revisions\/2841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeinspace.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeinspace.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeinspace.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}