{"id":313926,"date":"2025-11-09T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/?p=769761"},"modified":"2025-11-09T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T12:00:00","slug":"plans-to-restart-direct-trains-from-swindon-to-birmingham-after-20-year-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=313926","title":{"rendered":"Plans to restart direct trains from Swindon to Birmingham after 20-year gap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/MC-SWINTON-OCT24-24-1-1078x720.jpg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"Meeting at Swindon station\" style=\"display: block; margin: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; max-width: 100%;\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/MC-SWINTON-OCT24-24-1-1078x720.jpg 1078w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/MC-SWINTON-OCT24-24-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/MC-SWINTON-OCT24-24-1-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/MC-SWINTON-OCT24-24-1-750x501.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/MC-SWINTON-OCT24-24-1-360x240.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/MC-SWINTON-OCT24-24-1-624x417.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/MC-SWINTON-OCT24-24-1-600x401.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/MC-SWINTON-OCT24-24-1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>Will Stone, Labour MP for Swindon North, has been discussing plans to restore direct train services between the town and Birmingham for the first time in two decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will Stone, Labour MP for Swindon North, has been discussing plans to restore direct train services between the town and Birmingham for the first time in two decades.<\/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":[2406,3706,4825,2306,2370,5457,4850,471,47,5388,14227,2376],"tags":[12406],"class_list":["post-313926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birmingham","category-cheltenham","category-gloucester","category-great-western-railway","category-midlands","category-midlands-connect","category-midlands-rail-hub","category-news","category-rail-news","category-swindon","category-transport-focus","category-west-midlands","tag-rail-advent"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313926","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=313926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313927,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313926\/revisions\/313927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=313926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=313926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=313926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}