{"id":163344,"date":"2025-01-02T04:28:08","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T18:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=f7f779cce8489fb9a2a65963f9812695"},"modified":"2025-01-02T04:28:08","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T18:28:08","slug":"steam-locomotive-driver-leaves-footplate-after-55-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=163344","title":{"rendered":"Steam locomotive driver leaves footplate after 55 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"453\" src=\"https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/P1152452-1018x720.jpg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"73156 stands at Rothley, Great Central Railway\" style=\"display: block; margin: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; max-width: 100%;\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/P1152452-1018x720.jpg 1018w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/P1152452-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/P1152452-600x424.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/P1152452-768x543.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/P1152452-750x530.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/P1152452-860x608.jpg 860w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/P1152452.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>A steam train driver on the Great Central Railway has retired after 55 years of life on the footplate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A steam train driver on the Great Central Railway has retired after 55 years of life on the footplate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2415,5330,47,1419],"tags":[12406],"class_list":["post-163344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-great-central-railway","category-leicestershire","category-rail-news","category-standard-gauge","tag-rail-advent"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=163344"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163538,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163344\/revisions\/163538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=163344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=163344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=163344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}