{"id":285163,"date":"2025-09-16T17:21:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T07:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=b19c810fbd812fcb98f3be0b33979dfa"},"modified":"2025-09-16T17:21:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T07:21:28","slug":"county-durham-heritage-railway-to-feature-on-bbc-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=285163","title":{"rendered":"County Durham heritage railway to feature on BBC programme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"458\" src=\"https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Michael-Portillo-on-board-Locomotion-No-1-at-Stanhope-Railway-Station-Credit-Graeme-Rowatt-1-1006x720.jpg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"Testing Locomotion No.1 on the Weardale Railway, in preparation for the 200th anniversary of the first train journey, from Darlington to Stockton.\" style=\"display: block; margin: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; max-width: 100%;\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Michael-Portillo-on-board-Locomotion-No-1-at-Stanhope-Railway-Station-Credit-Graeme-Rowatt-1-1006x720.jpg 1006w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Michael-Portillo-on-board-Locomotion-No-1-at-Stanhope-Railway-Station-Credit-Graeme-Rowatt-1-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Michael-Portillo-on-board-Locomotion-No-1-at-Stanhope-Railway-Station-Credit-Graeme-Rowatt-1-768x550.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Michael-Portillo-on-board-Locomotion-No-1-at-Stanhope-Railway-Station-Credit-Graeme-Rowatt-1-750x537.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Michael-Portillo-on-board-Locomotion-No-1-at-Stanhope-Railway-Station-Credit-Graeme-Rowatt-1-624x447.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Michael-Portillo-on-board-Locomotion-No-1-at-Stanhope-Railway-Station-Credit-Graeme-Rowatt-1-600x429.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Michael-Portillo-on-board-Locomotion-No-1-at-Stanhope-Railway-Station-Credit-Graeme-Rowatt-1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>Weardale Railway has revealed that it is to feature in Michael Portillo\u2019s new BBC2 series 200 Years of the Railways. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weardale Railway has revealed that it is to feature in Michael Portillo\u2019s new BBC2 series 200 Years of the Railways. <\/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":[3728,2348,7948,139,7102,47,15406,3175,1419,12808],"tags":[12406],"class_list":["post-285163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bishop-auckland","category-charity","category-county-durham","category-locomotion","category-michael-portillo","category-rail-news","category-sd","category-sdr","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\/285163","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=285163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285164,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285163\/revisions\/285164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=285163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=285163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=285163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}