{"id":69578,"date":"2011-01-05T11:20:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T11:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=69578"},"modified":"2022-01-29T18:17:39","modified_gmt":"2022-01-29T18:17:39","slug":"120-foot-rails-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=69578","title":{"rendered":"120 Foot Rails"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"693\" height=\"1000\" src=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/000295-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-69577\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/000295-1.jpg 693w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/000295-1-208x300.jpg 208w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/000295-1-104x150.jpg 104w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/000295-1-400x577.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 693px) 100vw, 693px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Laid at Holme near Peterborough, twice as long as standard sections used by the London &amp; North Eastern Railway, hoping for smoother running of the trains. On account of their additional length and weight \u2013 they are the longest in the world manufactured in one piece \u2013 have given rise to new problems in handling, the question of expansion is one that will have to be carefully watched. This was taken from an old newspaper dated 29th January 1937.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Cutting from a collection gifted to the Archive, most of the cuttings coming from the Northern Echo and cover the period 1930 to 1940.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<p>Laid at Holme near Peterborough, twice as long as standard sections used by the London &amp; North Eastern Railway, hoping for smoother running of the trains. On account of their additional length and weight \u2013 they are the longest in the world manufactured in one piece \u2013 have given rise to new problems in [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ironsteel-works","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69578"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69581,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69578\/revisions\/69581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}