{"id":5790,"date":"2021-07-30T06:00:19","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T20:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/otcm.wordpress.com\/?p=4795"},"modified":"2021-07-30T06:00:19","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T20:00:19","slug":"the-morning-shunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=5790","title":{"rendered":"The Morning Shunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We may both live in Kent, but that doesn&#8217;t stop us being 60 miles away from one another &#8211; with the various lockdowns etc over the last 18 months, opportunities for OTCM to be united as one unit have been quite limited. With things easing, I was down at OT towers for a few drinks, and it only seemed appropriate for the SLW class 24 featured in the last post to have a trip out and a play around on Oly&#8217;s shunting plank.<\/p>\n<p>It seemed rude not to film this, so feel free to enjoy 6 minutes of one of the most engaging locos to operate shunting pointlessly around:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_MwF9PYOYA8?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;%23038;showsearch=0&#038;%23038;showinfo=1&#038;%23038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;%23038;fs=1&#038;%23038;hl=en&#038;%23038;autohide=2&#038;%23038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>It may not have escaped readers notice that Oly has been updating the layout and making it a bit less 1950&#8217;s East Anglian and a bit more 1970&#8217;s Northern&#8230;. any resemblance to other OTCM layouts is purely coincidental and it was not intended to become a replica!<\/p>\n<p>Chris<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We may both live in Kent, but that doesn\u2019t stop us being 60 miles away from one another \u2013 with the various lockdowns etc over the last 18 months, opportunities for OTCM to be united as one unit have been quite limited. With things easing, I was down at OT towers for a few drinks, \u2026 <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/otcm.wordpress.com\/2021\/07\/29\/the-morning-shunt\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Morning Shunt&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"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":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5790","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\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5790"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7596,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5790\/revisions\/7596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}