{"id":625,"date":"2012-08-17T12:12:31","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T12:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegrowlergroup.org.uk\/?p=625"},"modified":"2012-08-24T14:30:50","modified_gmt":"2012-08-24T14:30:50","slug":"37215-pushes-the-boundaries-on-the-gwr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thegrowlergroup.org.uk\/?p=625","title":{"rendered":"37215 pushes the boundaries on the GWR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday 17th August, 37215 became the first main line locomotive to cross the new Laverton bridge when it operated an engineering train into the northern headshunt north of the yet to be commissioned Laverton loop. This is 1\/4 mile beyond the current limit of DMU operations. \u00a0An assortment of wagons were\u00a0deposited<!--more-->\u00a0into the headshunt and two dogfish\u00a0ballast\u00a0wagons collected from inside the new loop to be taken back to Toddington. In so doing, 37215 ventured further north than any other main line locomotive on the preserved GWR, reaching just 2 miles from Broadway when in the\u00a0north headshunt.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thegrowlergroup.org.uk\/?attachment_id=707\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-707\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-707\" title=\"20120817_112529\" src=\"http:\/\/thegrowlergroup.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/20120817_1125291-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thegrowlergroup.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/20120817_1125291-500x375.jpg 500w, http:\/\/thegrowlergroup.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/20120817_1125291-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/thegrowlergroup.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/20120817_1125291.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_626\" class=\"alignnone\" aria-describedby=\"figcaption_attachment_626\" style=\"width: 510px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thegrowlergroup.org.uk\/?attachment_id=626\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-626\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-626 \" title=\"20120817_112047\" src=\"http:\/\/thegrowlergroup.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/20120817_112047-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thegrowlergroup.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/20120817_112047-500x375.jpg 500w, http:\/\/thegrowlergroup.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/20120817_112047-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/thegrowlergroup.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/20120817_112047.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment_626\">37215 stands in the north headshunt beyond Laverton loop. Broadway just 2 miles away.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday 17th August, 37215 became the first main line locomotive to cross the new Laverton bridge when it operated an engineering train into the northern headshunt north of the yet to be commissioned Laverton loop. This is 1\/4 mile &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/thegrowlergroup.org.uk\/?p=625\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-14","category-other_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegrowlergroup.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625","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=625"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/thegrowlergroup.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":672,"href":"http:\/\/thegrowlergroup.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions\/672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegrowlergroup.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegrowlergroup.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegrowlergroup.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}