{"id":163536,"date":"2025-01-03T01:12:19","date_gmt":"2025-01-02T15:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=21f17625bcff63dc80305353a6598dc3"},"modified":"2025-01-03T01:12:19","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T15:12:19","slug":"53-years-after-last-br-train-swanage-driver-takes-charge-of-heritage-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=163536","title":{"rendered":"53 years after last BR train, Swanage driver takes charge of heritage train"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"429\" src=\"https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/thumbnail_Mel-Cox-T3-563-Corfe-Castle-1-January-2025-ANDREW-PM-WRIGHT-1-1073x720.jpg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"T3 Class No. 563 at Corfe Castle. \/\/ Credit: Andrew P.W. Wright\" style=\"display: block; margin: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; max-width: 100%;\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/thumbnail_Mel-Cox-T3-563-Corfe-Castle-1-January-2025-ANDREW-PM-WRIGHT-1-1073x720.jpg 1073w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/thumbnail_Mel-Cox-T3-563-Corfe-Castle-1-January-2025-ANDREW-PM-WRIGHT-1-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/thumbnail_Mel-Cox-T3-563-Corfe-Castle-1-January-2025-ANDREW-PM-WRIGHT-1-768x515.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/thumbnail_Mel-Cox-T3-563-Corfe-Castle-1-January-2025-ANDREW-PM-WRIGHT-1-750x503.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/thumbnail_Mel-Cox-T3-563-Corfe-Castle-1-January-2025-ANDREW-PM-WRIGHT-1-624x419.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/thumbnail_Mel-Cox-T3-563-Corfe-Castle-1-January-2025-ANDREW-PM-WRIGHT-1-600x403.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/thumbnail_Mel-Cox-T3-563-Corfe-Castle-1-January-2025-ANDREW-PM-WRIGHT-1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>On New Year\u2019s Day, a driver of a train from Swanage was the same one who drove trains to the town before British Rail withdrew its services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On New Year\u2019s Day, a driver of a train from Swanage was the same one who drove trains to the town before British Rail withdrew its services.<\/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":[5769,47,1419,4135,4136,5762],"tags":[12406],"class_list":["post-163536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-corfe-castle","category-rail-news","category-standard-gauge","category-swanage-railway","category-swanage-railway-trust","category-wareham","tag-rail-advent"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163536","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=163536"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163844,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163536\/revisions\/163844"}],"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=163536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=163536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=163536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}