{"id":71023,"date":"2012-10-11T20:36:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T19:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=71023"},"modified":"2022-03-12T18:39:47","modified_gmt":"2022-03-12T18:39:47","slug":"staithes-viaduct-once-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=71023","title":{"rendered":"Staithes Viaduct once more"},"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\/2022\/03\/1-maurice-grayson-trains7-001.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-71022\" width=\"734\" height=\"472\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/1-maurice-grayson-trains7-001.jpg 781w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/1-maurice-grayson-trains7-001-300x193.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/1-maurice-grayson-trains7-001-467x300.jpg 467w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/1-maurice-grayson-trains7-001-150x96.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/1-maurice-grayson-trains7-001-400x257.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 734px) 100vw, 734px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Train bound for Whitby, five coaches were normal in summer, reduced to two or three for winter service; believed to date from the mid 1950s. Mark Thompson ha sadvised: &#8220;A photograph of Staithes Viaduct, taken from the landward side, showing a 5 coach train travelling towards Whitby, headed by a large tank engine (possibly an A8 (4-6-2T) or maybe a BR Standard tank (2-6-4T) \u2013 or even a Thompson L1 tank (2-6-4T).&#8221;&nbsp;What a remarkably scenic railway this was \u2013 nowadays it would be the ideal candidate for preservation \u2013 and we cannot blame Dr Beeching for the closure of the line. As Andrew Hogan tells us: \u201dThis line closed in 1958, Dr. Beeching did not come to power until 1962 and therefore had nothing to do with its closure.\u201d&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Russ Pigott tells us: \u201dThe loco is a class L1 2-6-4t and the photo was taken after 1956 as it has the later BR crest,maybe even closure day as there seems to be a lot of people (enthusiasts?) stood up and looking out of the coach windows.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Image courtesy Maurice Grayson, thanks to Mark Thompson, Andrew Hogan and Russ Pigott for the updates.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Train bound for Whitby, five coaches were normal in summer, reduced to two or three for winter service; believed to date from the mid 1950s. Mark Thompson ha sadvised: &#8220;A photograph of Staithes Viaduct, taken from the landward side, showing a 5 coach train travelling towards Whitby, headed by a large tank engine [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-viaducts","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71023","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=71023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71024,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71023\/revisions\/71024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}