{"id":272959,"date":"2025-08-26T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=e828b770d756bf943168ae5b80207106"},"modified":"2025-08-26T00:30:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T14:30:00","slug":"weardale-railway-has-the-youngest-train-driver-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=272959","title":{"rendered":"Weardale Railway Has The Youngest Train Driver In the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" src=\"https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Logan-Smallwood-aboard-Sentinel-at-Stanhope-1083x720.jpg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"Logan Smallwood aboard Sentinel at Stanhope\" style=\"display: block; margin: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; max-width: 100%;\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Logan-Smallwood-aboard-Sentinel-at-Stanhope-1083x720.jpg 1083w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Logan-Smallwood-aboard-Sentinel-at-Stanhope-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Logan-Smallwood-aboard-Sentinel-at-Stanhope-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Logan-Smallwood-aboard-Sentinel-at-Stanhope-750x499.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Logan-Smallwood-aboard-Sentinel-at-Stanhope-624x415.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Logan-Smallwood-aboard-Sentinel-at-Stanhope-600x399.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Logan-Smallwood-aboard-Sentinel-at-Stanhope.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>Weardale Railway is now home to the youngest qualified train driver in the UK. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weardale Railway is now home to the youngest qualified train driver in the UK. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"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":[2542,47,17878,1419,12808],"tags":[12406],"class_list":["post-272959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newcastle","category-rail-news","category-sentinel","category-standard-gauge","category-weardale-railway","tag-rail-advent"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272959","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=272959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272960,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272959\/revisions\/272960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=272959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=272959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=272959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}