{"id":56329,"date":"2009-12-04T19:17:31","date_gmt":"2009-12-04T19:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=56329"},"modified":"2017-04-18T17:15:38","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T16:15:38","slug":"british-steel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=56329","title":{"rendered":"British Steel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-56328\" src=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/British-Steel-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2344\" height=\"1752\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/British-Steel-1.jpg 2344w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/British-Steel-1-300x224.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/British-Steel-1-401x300.jpg 401w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/British-Steel-1-150x112.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/British-Steel-1-400x299.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2344px) 100vw, 2344px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Not so old here \u2013 we\u2019ve got colour light signals. A goods train, headed by 0-6-0 class J39 64848, chugs ponderously past; east of Thornaby Station, heading west on the goods line. We are told by Dale: \u201dThe locomotive is J39 64848, of West Auckland (51F); it has a white smokebox door boss. This had been painted to indicate all 51F sheded locomotives by the shed boiler inspector.\u201d We are now advised by Geoff Swales: \u201dThe white smokebox door boss was painted by West Auckland boilersmith, (not inspector) \u2013 Gordon Reed\u00a0\u2013 boilersmith from mid 1950\u2019s until shed closure.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Thanks Simon Chapman,\u00a0Alan Woods, Dale and Geoff Swales for the updates.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Not so old here \u2013 we\u2019ve got colour light signals. A goods train, headed by 0-6-0 class J39 64848, chugs ponderously past; east of Thornaby Station, heading west on the goods line. We are told by Dale: \u201dThe locomotive is J39 64848, of West Auckland (51F); it has a white smokebox door boss. This [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-steam-locos","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56330,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56329\/revisions\/56330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}