{"id":372417,"date":"2026-02-20T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/?p=929404"},"modified":"2026-02-20T00:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T14:30:00","slug":"original-swanage-railway-restoration-volunteers-gather-in-dorset-for-fiftieth-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=372417","title":{"rendered":"Original Swanage Railway restoration volunteers gather in Dorset for fiftieth anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1976-vols-Laurence-Sprigg-Jeremy-Weller-R-ANDREW-PM-WRIGHT-1-1-1080x720.jpg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"1976 vols Laurence Sprigg Jeremy Weller R ANDREW PM WRIGHT (1) (1)\" style=\"display: block; margin: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; max-width: 100%;\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1976-vols-Laurence-Sprigg-Jeremy-Weller-R-ANDREW-PM-WRIGHT-1-1-1080x720.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1976-vols-Laurence-Sprigg-Jeremy-Weller-R-ANDREW-PM-WRIGHT-1-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1976-vols-Laurence-Sprigg-Jeremy-Weller-R-ANDREW-PM-WRIGHT-1-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1976-vols-Laurence-Sprigg-Jeremy-Weller-R-ANDREW-PM-WRIGHT-1-1-750x500.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1976-vols-Laurence-Sprigg-Jeremy-Weller-R-ANDREW-PM-WRIGHT-1-1-360x240.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1976-vols-Laurence-Sprigg-Jeremy-Weller-R-ANDREW-PM-WRIGHT-1-1-624x416.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1976-vols-Laurence-Sprigg-Jeremy-Weller-R-ANDREW-PM-WRIGHT-1-1-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1976-vols-Laurence-Sprigg-Jeremy-Weller-R-ANDREW-PM-WRIGHT-1-1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>The volunteers who, as teenagers, began working to restore the Swanage Railway in 1976 have gathered to celebrate its fiftieth anniversary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The volunteers who, as teenagers, began working to restore the Swanage Railway in 1976 have gathered to celebrate its fiftieth anniversary.<\/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":[3583,5769,3174,10672,47,2379,1419,4134,4135],"tags":[12406],"class_list":["post-372417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barry-island","category-corfe-castle","category-dorset","category-isle-of-purbeck","category-rail-news","category-restoration","category-standard-gauge","category-swanage","category-swanage-railway","tag-rail-advent"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372417","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=372417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":372418,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372417\/revisions\/372418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=372417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=372417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=372417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}