{"id":252194,"date":"2025-07-16T19:55:51","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T09:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=4aad971eccceef1d0556834f7bc51d4c"},"modified":"2025-07-16T19:55:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T09:55:51","slug":"retired-signaller-celebrates-99th-birthday-with-york-roc-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=252194","title":{"rendered":"Retired signaller celebrates 99th birthday with York ROC tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image00010-1-960x720.jpg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"Bob Abbott with son Ron and daughter-in-law Sarah\" style=\"display: block; margin: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; max-width: 100%;\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image00010-1-960x720.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image00010-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image00010-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image00010-1-750x563.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image00010-1-624x468.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image00010-1-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image00010-1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>Network Rail has treated a former signaller to a tour of York Rail Operating Centre (ROC) to celebrate his 99th birthday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Network Rail has treated a former signaller to a tour of York Rail Operating Centre (ROC) to celebrate his 99th birthday.<\/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":[7948,17453,113,471,47,2537,2543,17454,17455],"tags":[12406],"class_list":["post-252194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-county-durham","category-ferryhill","category-network-rail","category-news","category-rail-news","category-signalling","category-york","category-york-roc","category-york-yard-north","tag-rail-advent"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252194","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=252194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252195,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252194\/revisions\/252195"}],"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=252194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=252194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=252194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}