{"id":39300,"date":"2017-07-22T02:00:35","date_gmt":"2017-07-22T06:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=39300"},"modified":"2017-07-12T08:59:42","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T12:59:42","slug":"the-bus-replacement-rail-service-yes-thats-the-right-way-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/07\/22\/the-bus-replacement-rail-service-yes-thats-the-right-way-round\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bus Replacement Rail Service (yes, that&#8217;s the right way round)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3WHmETKW72E\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Published on 6 Jul 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This may be the most British video I&#8217;ve done in a while! But I saw the news story and immediately wanted to film it: the volunteer-run, narrow-gauge Leadhills and Wanlockhead Railway, in the south of Scotland, has stepped in to replace buses while a road is being resurfaced &mdash; avoiding a 45-mile diversion and meaning that local residents can still get to their neighbouring village. This isn&#8217;t the first bus replacement train in British history, but it&#8217;s pretty rare.<\/p>\n<p>You can find out more about the Leadhills and Wanlockhead Railway here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leadhillsrailway.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.leadhillsrailway.co.uk<\/a> &mdash; thank you so much to all the volunteers there for the time they spent with me today!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published on 6 Jul 2016 This may be the most British video I&#8217;ve done in a while! But I saw the news story and immediately wanted to film it: the volunteer-run, narrow-gauge Leadhills and Wanlockhead Railway, in the south of Scotland, has stepped in to replace buses while a road is being resurfaced &mdash; avoiding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"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],"tags":[527,338],"class_list":["post-39300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-railways","tag-publictransit","tag-scotland"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-adS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39300","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=39300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39301,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39300\/revisions\/39301"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}