{"id":2226,"date":"2009-12-23T12:44:54","date_gmt":"2009-12-23T17:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=2226"},"modified":"2014-06-18T09:53:10","modified_gmt":"2014-06-18T14:53:10","slug":"tornado-to-the-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/12\/23\/tornado-to-the-rescue\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Tornado<\/em> to the rescue!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With all the winter weather in England this week, the railways are struggling to cope. One of the newest locomotives <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/england\/8428097.stm\" target=\"_blank\">didn&#8217;t have any problems with the snow and ice<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/TornadoInSnow_22Dec09.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/TornadoInSnow_22Dec09.jpg\" alt=\"TornadoInSnow_22Dec09\" title=\"TornadoInSnow_22Dec09\" width=\"466\" height=\"260\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/TornadoInSnow_22Dec09.jpg 466w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/TornadoInSnow_22Dec09-150x83.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Passengers were rescued by a steam locomotive after modern rail services were brought to a halt by the snowy conditions in south-east England.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trains between Ashford and Dover were suspended on Monday when cold weather disabled the electric rail.<\/p>\n<p>Some commuters at London Victoria faced lengthy delays until Tornado &mdash; Britain&#8217;s first mainline steam engine in 50 years &mdash; offered them a lift.<\/p>\n<p>They were taken home &#8220;in style&#8221;, said the Darlington-built engine&#8217;s owners. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With all the winter weather in England this week, the railways are struggling to cope. One of the newest locomotives didn&#8217;t have any problems with the snow and ice: Passengers were rescued by a steam locomotive after modern rail services were brought to a halt by the snowy conditions in south-east England. Trains between Ashford [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,237,15],"tags":[206,980],"class_list":["post-2226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-railways","category-technology","tag-severeweather","tag-steampower"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-zU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2226"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26393,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2226\/revisions\/26393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}