{"id":205783,"date":"2025-04-25T21:25:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T11:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=11decabf1acfc568ab1c6ba4118c38ae"},"modified":"2025-04-25T21:25:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T11:25:00","slug":"county-durham-may-becomes-yorkshire-railways-youngest-train-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=205783","title":{"rendered":"County Durham may becomes Yorkshire railway\u2019s youngest train driver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/george-stephens-class142-960x720.jpeg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"George Stephens, the Wensleydale Railway&#039;s youngest driver. Credit: Richard Thompson\" style=\"display: block; margin: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; max-width: 100%;\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/george-stephens-class142-960x720.jpeg 960w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/george-stephens-class142-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/george-stephens-class142-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/george-stephens-class142-750x563.jpeg 750w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/george-stephens-class142-624x468.jpeg 624w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/george-stephens-class142-600x450.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/george-stephens-class142.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>A man from Darlington in County Durham has achieved the distinction of being the youngest driver on the Wensleydale Railway in North Yorkshire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man from Darlington in County Durham has achieved the distinction of being the youngest driver on the Wensleydale Railway in North Yorkshire.<\/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":[13376,16498,7948,3620,3442,3443,3639,15391,47,1419,2324,3446],"tags":[12406],"class_list":["post-205783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-class-142","category-class-143","category-county-durham","category-darlington","category-leeming-bar","category-leyburn","category-north-yorkshire","category-pacer","category-rail-news","category-standard-gauge","category-volunteer","category-wensleydale-railway","tag-rail-advent"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205783","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=205783"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205807,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205783\/revisions\/205807"}],"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=205783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=205783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=205783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}