{"id":1653,"date":"2023-07-30T10:53:36","date_gmt":"2023-07-30T09:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nenevalleyrailway.co.uk\/NVR_blog\/?p=1653"},"modified":"2023-07-30T10:53:36","modified_gmt":"2023-07-30T09:53:36","slug":"its-a-diesel-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nenevalleyrailway.co.uk\/NVR_blog\/?p=1653","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s a diesel weekend."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This weekend we are running a diesel service. Yesterday we had the class 14 and today we are running the Peak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ever since I joined the railway there have been two camps, one for and one against running diesels in the summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Personally I have always been of the opinion that we should, on a regular basis run all that we have available. We are not just a steam railway we are a heritage railway, a fact that many often forget about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From when I ran Orton Mere I can count on one hand the number of times that a visitor decide not to travel because we were running diesel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I would hazard a guess that most of our visitors have never travelled behind a steam train when they were in service on the network. but many have travelled behind diesels when they have needed to travel by rail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So enjoy whatever we are running it is all part of our history!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend we are running a diesel service. Yesterday we had the class 14 and today we are running the Peak. Ever since I joined the railway there have been two camps, one for and one against running diesels in the summer. Personally I have always been of the opinion that we should, on a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nenevalleyrailway.co.uk\/NVR_blog\/?p=1653\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It&#8217;s a diesel weekend.&#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":[14,24,10,7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-along-the-line","category-diesel","category-history","category-summer","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nenevalleyrailway.co.uk\/NVR_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653","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=1653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.nenevalleyrailway.co.uk\/NVR_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1654,"href":"http:\/\/www.nenevalleyrailway.co.uk\/NVR_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653\/revisions\/1654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nenevalleyrailway.co.uk\/NVR_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nenevalleyrailway.co.uk\/NVR_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nenevalleyrailway.co.uk\/NVR_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}