{"id":396833,"date":"2026-03-31T01:20:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T15:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/?p=952370"},"modified":"2026-03-31T01:20:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T15:20:06","slug":"book-review-express-diesel-trains-by-george-woods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=396833","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Express Diesel Trains by George Woods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"508\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Express-Diesel-Trains-cover-2-508x720.jpg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"Express Diesel Trains cover \/\/ Credit: RailAdvent\" style=\"display: block; margin: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; max-width: 100%;\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Express-Diesel-Trains-cover-2-508x720.jpg 508w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Express-Diesel-Trains-cover-2-300x425.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Express-Diesel-Trains-cover-2-768x1088.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Express-Diesel-Trains-cover-2-1084x1536.jpg 1084w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Express-Diesel-Trains-cover-2-750x1062.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Express-Diesel-Trains-cover-2-360x510.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Express-Diesel-Trains-cover-2-624x884.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Express-Diesel-Trains-cover-2-600x850.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Express-Diesel-Trains-cover-2.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 508px) 100vw, 508px\" \/>Express Diesel Trains describes the evolution of Britain\u2019s high-speed trains from 1968, when a prototype of the familiar Class 43 HST was developed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Express Diesel Trains describes the evolution of Britain\u2019s high-speed trains from 1968, when a prototype of the familiar Class 43 HST was developed.<\/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":[3994,1081,2361,14293,7622,2555,19975,4473,4383,2330,47,2372,9544],"tags":[12406],"class_list":["post-396833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amberley-publishing","category-book-review","category-book-reviews","category-class-180","category-class-43","category-crosscountry","category-first-great-western","category-hst","category-hull-trains","category-northern","category-rail-news","category-reviews","category-virgin-trains","tag-rail-advent"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396833","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=396833"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":402536,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396833\/revisions\/402536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=396833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=396833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=396833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}