{"id":1299,"date":"2022-06-09T12:16:57","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T11:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nenevalleyrailway.co.uk\/NVR_blog\/?p=1299"},"modified":"2022-06-09T12:16:57","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T11:16:57","slug":"advanced-driver-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nenevalleyrailway.co.uk\/NVR_blog\/?p=1299","title":{"rendered":"Advanced driver experience."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Yesterday the railway held an advanced steam driver experience day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The locomotive was Bahamas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are a couple of pictures of the locomotive. Shame it&#8217;s leaving us on the 10th June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here the first picture shows the locomotive at Wansford station. Some nice rain clouds in the background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nenevalleyrailway.co.uk\/NVR_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Image-1-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.nenevalleyrailway.co.uk\/NVR_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Image-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.nenevalleyrailway.co.uk\/NVR_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Image-1-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.nenevalleyrailway.co.uk\/NVR_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Image-1-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.nenevalleyrailway.co.uk\/NVR_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Image-1-1536x864.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.nenevalleyrailway.co.uk\/NVR_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Image-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>\u00a9 Matthew Alden Farrow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The second image shows the locomotive coupled to the carriages at Yarwell before running back to Wansford, then onwards to Peterborough Nene Valley station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nenevalleyrailway.co.uk\/NVR_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Image-2-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1301\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.nenevalleyrailway.co.uk\/NVR_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Image-2-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.nenevalleyrailway.co.uk\/NVR_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Image-2-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.nenevalleyrailway.co.uk\/NVR_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Image-2-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.nenevalleyrailway.co.uk\/NVR_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Image-2-1536x864.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.nenevalleyrailway.co.uk\/NVR_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Image-2.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>\u00a9 Matthew Alden Farrow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Driver experience days, of all types are always popular. The opportunity to drive and fire a famous or large locomotive is always a draw for people of all ages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My thanks to Matthew Alden Farrow for the images.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday the railway held an advanced steam driver experience day. The locomotive was Bahamas. Here are a couple of pictures of the locomotive. Shame it&#8217;s leaving us on the 10th June. Here the first picture shows the locomotive at Wansford station. Some nice rain clouds in the background. The second image shows the locomotive coupled &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nenevalleyrailway.co.uk\/NVR_blog\/?p=1299\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Advanced driver experience.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,20,13,6,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-along-the-line","category-driver-experience","category-photography","category-steam-locomotives","category-wansford-station"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nenevalleyrailway.co.uk\/NVR_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nenevalleyrailway.co.uk\/NVR_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nenevalleyrailway.co.uk\/NVR_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nenevalleyrailway.co.uk\/NVR_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nenevalleyrailway.co.uk\/NVR_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.nenevalleyrailway.co.uk\/NVR_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1302,"href":"http:\/\/www.nenevalleyrailway.co.uk\/NVR_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299\/revisions\/1302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nenevalleyrailway.co.uk\/NVR_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nenevalleyrailway.co.uk\/NVR_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nenevalleyrailway.co.uk\/NVR_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}