{"id":390,"date":"2026-10-30T15:36:54","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T15:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.morsing.cc\/?p=390"},"modified":"2026-10-30T15:37:28","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T15:37:28","slug":"halloween-steam-loco-cleaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morsing.cc\/?p=390","title":{"rendered":"Halloween steam loco cleaning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have recently started volunteering at Buckinghamshire Railway Centre. I spent three weeks with the restoration team cutting would before landing a job and being restricted to weekends. I am now a steam engine cleaner working towards becoming a trainee fireman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I snapped this photos last night of &#8216;May&#8217;, our Peckett 1370 0-4-0, after cleaning it in preparation for Halloween.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1512\" height=\"2016\" src=\"https:\/\/www.morsing.cc\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/May_halloween_small-rotated.jpg\" alt=\"Buckinghamshire Railway Centre's Peckett 1370 'May' at night time.\" class=\"wp-image-391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.morsing.cc\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/May_halloween_small-rotated.jpg 1512w, https:\/\/www.morsing.cc\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/May_halloween_small-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.morsing.cc\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/May_halloween_small-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.morsing.cc\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/May_halloween_small-1152x1536.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1512px) 100vw, 1512px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have recently started volunteering at Buckinghamshire Railway Centre. I spent three weeks with the restoration team cutting would before landing a job and being restricted to weekends. I am now a steam engine cleaner working towards becoming a trainee &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.morsing.cc\/?p=390\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[99,98,100,8,95,97,96,102,101,94,93],"class_list":["post-390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trains","tag-0-4-0","tag-98","tag-buckinghamshire","tag-engine","tag-loco","tag-night","tag-peckett","tag-quainton","tag-railway","tag-steam","tag-train"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morsing.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morsing.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morsing.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morsing.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morsing.cc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.morsing.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":392,"href":"https:\/\/www.morsing.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions\/392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morsing.cc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morsing.cc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morsing.cc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}