{"id":2850,"date":"2023-03-13T17:34:47","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T17:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.furnessrailwaytrust.org.uk\/about\/blog\/?p=2850"},"modified":"2023-03-13T17:35:06","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T17:35:06","slug":"2850","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeinspace.co.uk\/?p=2850","title":{"rendered":"Monday 13th March 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Breaking news this week is that Furness Railway No. 20 is now scheduled to pay a visit to the Pontypool and Blaenavon Railway as part of that railway\u2019s 40<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary celebrations, once its steamings at Didcot Railway Centre have concluded. There will be two weekends when FR 20 will haul the scheduled passenger train whilst the loco will also be hauling a coal train over the Spring Bank Holiday weekend.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2845\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeinspace.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/20230308_133456-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Home at last. 5643 in the FRT shed\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lifeinspace.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/20230308_133456-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lifeinspace.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/20230308_133456-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lifeinspace.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/20230308_133456-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/>Back at Preston, 5643 was finally placed in the FRT shed on Wednesday, 8<sup>th<\/sup> March. No time was lost in starting the long job of undertaking the ten-year overhaul on the boiler.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2844\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeinspace.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/20230308_122956A-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Paul Balshaw shovel out coal dust from beneath 5643's cab floor\" width=\"660\" height=\"880\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lifeinspace.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/20230308_122956A-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lifeinspace.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/20230308_122956A-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/>The cab floor was soon removed and Paul Balshaw is seen here cleaning up some of the coal dust that had fallen between the wooden floor planks.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2846\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeinspace.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/20230303_092716A-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Phil Bell at work with the revitalised table saw\" width=\"660\" height=\"880\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lifeinspace.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/20230303_092716A-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lifeinspace.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/20230303_092716A-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/>Phil Bell has been in his element since Keith, with his long experience of servicing industrial machines, managed to repair the table saw that had previously been donated to the FRT by the RSR joiners. Phil has been making up wooden mouldings for the kitchen in Great Eastern Railway Royal Saloon No. 5 that is currently being fitted out.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2847\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeinspace.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/20230308_133936-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"The back of the chaise longue fitted in GER No. 5\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lifeinspace.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/20230308_133936-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lifeinspace.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/20230308_133936-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lifeinspace.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/20230308_133936-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/>Anne and Phil Burton have continued their work on the chaise longue in the east saloon of the royal coach, despite Anne having recently suffered a broken finger at home. The moquette for the back of the chaise longue has now been fitted, having been buttoned onto the backing material at home by Anne and Phil.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2848\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeinspace.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/20230310_111231-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"FR 20 getting a clean and polish before its steam test\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lifeinspace.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/20230310_111231-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lifeinspace.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/20230310_111231-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lifeinspace.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/20230310_111231-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/>Finally, FR 20 successfully underwent its 14-month steam test examination by the boiler surveyor at Preston last Friday. John Dixon, Matthew and Sam are seen giving the loco a clean and polish whilst Alan kept an eye on the fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breaking news this week is that Furness Railway No. 20 is now scheduled to pay a visit to the Pontypool and Blaenavon Railway as part of that railway\u2019s 40th anniversary celebrations, once its steamings at Didcot Railway Centre have concluded. There will be two weekends when FR 20 will haul the scheduled passenger train whilst &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lifeinspace.co.uk\/?p=2850\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday 13th March 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-2850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeinspace.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2850","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=2850"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeinspace.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2852,"href":"https:\/\/lifeinspace.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2850\/revisions\/2852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeinspace.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeinspace.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeinspace.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}