{"id":70293,"date":"2011-03-01T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=70293"},"modified":"2022-02-17T16:11:41","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T16:11:41","slug":"prince-charles-locomotive-saltburn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=70293","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Prince Charles&#8221; locomotive, Saltburn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Saltburn-Miniature-Rly-1954-Prince-Charles-a-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-60486\" width=\"741\" height=\"517\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Saltburn-Miniature-Rly-1954-Prince-Charles-a-1.jpg 1943w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Saltburn-Miniature-Rly-1954-Prince-Charles-a-1-300x209.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Saltburn-Miniature-Rly-1954-Prince-Charles-a-1-430x300.jpg 430w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Saltburn-Miniature-Rly-1954-Prince-Charles-a-1-150x105.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Saltburn-Miniature-Rly-1954-Prince-Charles-a-1-400x279.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 741px) 100vw, 741px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Owen Rooks wrote to the Archive and advised: &#8220;The attached image is of a newly delivered shiny locomotive named \u2019Prince Charles\u2019 purchased by Mr. Cyril Pickering in 1954 for his Saltburn Miniature Railway.&nbsp; My dad had retired from British Rail the previous year and had been commissioned by Mr. Pickering to supervise the replacement of the entire track with heavier metals to accommodate the new locomotive which came from the Lakeside Miniature Railway in Southport.&nbsp; Of course, I had to \u2019help\u2019 with the task, even being allowed to drive the new locomotive quite often.&nbsp; I believe that \u2019Prince Charles\u2019 still survives at Saltburn after all these years.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Image and information courtesy of Owen Rooks.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Owen Rooks wrote to the Archive and advised: &#8220;The attached image is of a newly delivered shiny locomotive named \u2019Prince Charles\u2019 purchased by Mr. Cyril Pickering in 1954 for his Saltburn Miniature Railway.&nbsp; My dad had retired from British Rail the previous year and had been commissioned by Mr. Pickering to supervise the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-saltburn","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70293","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=70293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70294,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70293\/revisions\/70294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}