{"id":18324,"date":"2024-01-04T06:11:44","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T06:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.co.uk\/?p=18324"},"modified":"2024-01-04T06:23:19","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T06:23:19","slug":"all-passengers-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/04\/all-passengers-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"All Passengers Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I do not often weep <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But I did when <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The heritage railway <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Left Cliffmere Avon<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It had been <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A part of my life <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since I was small <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The landslip at Chalk Red<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Was the final straw <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the repair costs <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Were out of reach <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many schemes were sounded <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But all failed and the engines <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Left the line for the last time <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just before Christmas <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was there to bid them farewell <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The stations will stay in place <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many good things are planned <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But they will no longer <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">See the trains<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pass through them <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Full on hot summer days<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And ghostly in the darker months <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I will miss the winter sounds <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Echoing across the village <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And the smell of the locomotives<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hanging in the damp mists<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I do not often weep But I did when The heritage railway Left Cliffmere Avon It had been A part of my life Since I was small The landslip at Chalk Red Was the final straw As the repair costs Were out of reach Many schemes were sounded But all failed and the engines Left [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18324"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18329,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18324\/revisions\/18329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}