{"id":4403,"date":"2020-05-14T07:26:10","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T07:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=4403"},"modified":"2020-05-14T07:26:10","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T07:26:10","slug":"disembarkadero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=4403","title":{"rendered":"Disembarkadero"},"content":{"rendered":"

My liking for train travel is well documented, I have been reminded of this during lockdown by two separate emails, both from subscriber lists.<\/p>\n

The National Railway Museum in York is a fascinating destination for normal times,\u00a0 I have mentioned before<\/a> the thrill of sharing the same space as these leviathans of steam power.\u00a0 I am always delighted to see large reproductions of the classic rail travel posters, deliberately evocative and romantic.\u00a0 Whilst neither term would describe train travel just now, I was none the less intrigued to see a re-imagination of these artworks, on the Museum’s website<\/a>.\u00a0 Sample below gives a flavour of this.<\/p>\n

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Scotland rail travel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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From Waterstone’s bookshop (other bookshops are available) came news of a new train travel opus,\u00a0 which looks like a grand way to escape the current everyday for a few hours.\u00a0 Review here<\/a> – no prizes for originality in the article title, but oh, how different it must be from the 07:09 to Edinburgh Waverley.<\/p>\n

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Around the World in 80 Trains: A 45,000-Mile Adventure<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My liking for train travel is well documented, I have been reminded of this during lockdown by two separate emails, both from subscriber lists. The National Railway Museum in York is a fascinating destination for normal times,\u00a0 I have mentioned before the thrill of sharing the same space as these leviathans of steam power.\u00a0 I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,13,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-fine-art","category-kirsty","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}