{"id":1239,"date":"2017-12-13T11:59:26","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T11:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegrowlergroup.org.uk\/?p=1239"},"modified":"2017-12-13T11:59:26","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T11:59:26","slug":"d6948-on-santa-special-thunderbird-duties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thegrowlergroup.org.uk\/?p=1239","title":{"rendered":"D6948  on Santa Special &#8216;thunderbird&#8217; duties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>D6948 was called into action at very short notice on Saturday 9th December when steam locomotive GWR 2-6-2T no.5526 was failed with a brake defect during preparation on shed. The 37 was started and the boiler fired up, and made the steam loco&#8217;s booked diagram start.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1240\" src=\"http:\/\/thegrowlergroup.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/20171209_102449.jpg\" alt=\"D6948 leaves Winchcombe with the 10:20 ECS to Cheltenham Racecourse on Sat 9th December standing in at the last minute for a failed steam locomotive.\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thegrowlergroup.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/20171209_102449.jpg 1600w, http:\/\/thegrowlergroup.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/20171209_102449-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/thegrowlergroup.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/20171209_102449-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/thegrowlergroup.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/20171209_102449-500x375.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/> D6948 leaves Winchcombe with the 10:20 ECS to Cheltenham Racecourse on Sat 9th December standing in at the last minute for a failed steam locomotive. Photo: Peter Smith\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1241\" src=\"http:\/\/thegrowlergroup.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/20171209_115516.jpg\" alt=\"D6948 rests at Winchcombe having arrived with a Santa Special from Cheltenham Racecourse. A warm train and some happy children thanks to the steam heating boiler.\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thegrowlergroup.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/20171209_115516.jpg 1600w, http:\/\/thegrowlergroup.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/20171209_115516-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/thegrowlergroup.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/20171209_115516-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/thegrowlergroup.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/20171209_115516-500x375.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/> D6948 rests at Winchcombe having arrived with a Santa Special from Cheltenham Racecourse. A warm train and some happy children thanks to the steam heating boiler.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>D6948 was called into action at very short notice on Saturday 9th December when steam locomotive GWR 2-6-2T no.5526 was failed with a brake defect during preparation on shed. The 37 was started and the boiler fired up, and made &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/thegrowlergroup.org.uk\/?p=1239\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegrowlergroup.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegrowlergroup.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegrowlergroup.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegrowlergroup.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegrowlergroup.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/thegrowlergroup.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1242,"href":"http:\/\/thegrowlergroup.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239\/revisions\/1242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegrowlergroup.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegrowlergroup.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegrowlergroup.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}