{"id":586,"date":"2021-03-30T19:44:58","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T18:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nenevalleyrailway.co.uk\/NVR_blog\/?p=586"},"modified":"2021-03-30T19:44:58","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T18:44:58","slug":"is-it-a-dirty-job-on-the-footplate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nenevalleyrailway.co.uk\/NVR_blog\/?p=586","title":{"rendered":"Is it a dirty job on the footplate?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Now that&#8217;s a question I have been asked on a regular basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The answer is it depends on what you think is dirty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is a picture of Harry Baldwin back in 2009, he was a cleaner on steam locos. I often commented the loco was cleaner than he was!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-rounded\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"767\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nenevalleyrailway.co.uk\/NVR_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/100_0469a-767x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-587\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.nenevalleyrailway.co.uk\/NVR_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/100_0469a-767x1024.jpg 767w, http:\/\/www.nenevalleyrailway.co.uk\/NVR_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/100_0469a-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.nenevalleyrailway.co.uk\/NVR_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/100_0469a-768x1025.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.nenevalleyrailway.co.uk\/NVR_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/100_0469a-1151x1536.jpg 1151w, http:\/\/www.nenevalleyrailway.co.uk\/NVR_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/100_0469a-1535x2048.jpg 1535w, http:\/\/www.nenevalleyrailway.co.uk\/NVR_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/100_0469a-scaled.jpg 1918w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>\u00a9 Robert Maskill<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that&#8217;s a question I have been asked on a regular basis. The answer is it depends on what you think is dirty. Here is a picture of Harry Baldwin back in 2009, he was a cleaner on steam locos. I often commented the loco was cleaner than he was!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,13,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-along-the-line","category-photography","category-steam-locomotives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nenevalleyrailway.co.uk\/NVR_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586","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=586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.nenevalleyrailway.co.uk\/NVR_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":588,"href":"http:\/\/www.nenevalleyrailway.co.uk\/NVR_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions\/588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nenevalleyrailway.co.uk\/NVR_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nenevalleyrailway.co.uk\/NVR_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nenevalleyrailway.co.uk\/NVR_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}