{"id":212456,"date":"2025-05-07T18:08:06","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T08:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/?p=653673"},"modified":"2025-05-07T18:08:06","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T08:08:06","slug":"18-year-olds-given-chance-to-become-train-drivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=212456","title":{"rendered":"18 year olds given chance to become train drivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Image-shows-Northern-train-driver-Mark-Haigh-1080x720.jpg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"Northern train driver Mark Haigh\" style=\"display: block; margin: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; max-width: 100%;\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Image-shows-Northern-train-driver-Mark-Haigh-1080x720.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Image-shows-Northern-train-driver-Mark-Haigh-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Image-shows-Northern-train-driver-Mark-Haigh-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Image-shows-Northern-train-driver-Mark-Haigh-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Image-shows-Northern-train-driver-Mark-Haigh-750x500.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Image-shows-Northern-train-driver-Mark-Haigh-330x220.jpg 330w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Image-shows-Northern-train-driver-Mark-Haigh-420x280.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Image-shows-Northern-train-driver-Mark-Haigh-615x410.jpg 615w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Image-shows-Northern-train-driver-Mark-Haigh-860x573.jpg 860w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Image-shows-Northern-train-driver-Mark-Haigh.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>In a bid to make services more reliable, the UK Government has reduced the required age at which people can apply to become train drivers.&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a bid to make services more reliable, the UK Government has reduced the required age at which people can apply to become train drivers.&#8230;<\/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":[2538,3012,1323,2309,47,333],"tags":[12406],"class_list":["post-212456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apprenticeships","category-great-british-railways","category-jobs","category-network","category-rail-news","category-uk-government","tag-rail-advent"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212456","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=212456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212457,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212456\/revisions\/212457"}],"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=212456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=212456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=212456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}