{"id":341888,"date":"2026-01-02T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/?p=867191"},"modified":"2026-01-02T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T12:00:00","slug":"llangollen-railway-volunteer-retires-after-decades-of-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=341888","title":{"rendered":"Llangollen Railway volunteer retires after decades of service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Malcolm-Lees-is-presented-with-a-painting-by-former-railway-boss-Dave-Owen-700x525-1-960x720.jpg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"Malcolm Lees presented with a painting by his former railway boss. \/\/ Credit: Llangollen and Corwen Railway\" style=\"display: block; margin: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; max-width: 100%;\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Malcolm-Lees-is-presented-with-a-painting-by-former-railway-boss-Dave-Owen-700x525-1-960x720.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Malcolm-Lees-is-presented-with-a-painting-by-former-railway-boss-Dave-Owen-700x525-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Malcolm-Lees-is-presented-with-a-painting-by-former-railway-boss-Dave-Owen-700x525-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Malcolm-Lees-is-presented-with-a-painting-by-former-railway-boss-Dave-Owen-700x525-1-750x563.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Malcolm-Lees-is-presented-with-a-painting-by-former-railway-boss-Dave-Owen-700x525-1-360x270.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Malcolm-Lees-is-presented-with-a-painting-by-former-railway-boss-Dave-Owen-700x525-1-624x468.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Malcolm-Lees-is-presented-with-a-painting-by-former-railway-boss-Dave-Owen-700x525-1-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Malcolm-Lees-is-presented-with-a-painting-by-former-railway-boss-Dave-Owen-700x525-1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>One of the Llangollen and Corwen Railway\u2019s most respected and long-serving volunteers has retired after decades of service to the railway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the Llangollen and Corwen Railway\u2019s most respected and long-serving volunteers has retired after decades of service to the railway.<\/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":[4465,4466,2867,47,1419,2324],"tags":[12406],"class_list":["post-341888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corwen","category-llangollen","category-llangollen-railway","category-rail-news","category-standard-gauge","category-volunteer","tag-rail-advent"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341888","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=341888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341889,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341888\/revisions\/341889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=341888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=341888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=341888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}