{"id":5723,"date":"2020-11-20T08:38:54","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T08:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=5723"},"modified":"2020-11-20T08:39:50","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T08:39:50","slug":"britains-lost-railways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/20\/britains-lost-railways\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain&#8217;s Lost Railways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My girlfriend showed me her model railway on our first date<\/p>\n<p>On our second date she showed me how to build a model signalbox<\/p>\n<p>We visited a Hornby shop on our third date and purchased a replica of East Grinstead High Level station<\/p>\n<p>She spent most of our fourth date explaining the complex track layout between both the high level and low level stations<\/p>\n<p>I was also permitted a chaste kiss and we held hands for a few minutes<\/p>\n<p>On our fifth date she told me that her parents were moving to Australia<\/p>\n<p>She left a month later and did not have time to tell me about the amazing signalling at both St Pancras and Kings Cross stations<\/p>\n<p>For a while I felt lost and I confess I travelled to East Grinstead Low Level station as I wanted to end it all<\/p>\n<p>But when I arrived I found it had been previously demolished so I gave up on the idea<\/p>\n<p>Three years after my terrible loss I met and married a canal lock from Falkirk<\/p>\n<p>And we now spend many evenings together planning the restoration of Britain&#8217;s lost canals<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My girlfriend showed me her model railway on our first date On our second date she showed me how to build a model signalbox We visited a Hornby shop on our third date and purchased a replica of East Grinstead High Level station She spent most of our fourth date explaining the complex track layout [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5723"}],"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=5723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}