{"id":1154,"date":"2024-11-25T12:52:50","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T12:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.burtoncrumpnold.co.uk\/?p=1154"},"modified":"2024-11-25T13:01:54","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T13:01:54","slug":"a-surprise-back-to-school-at-burton-crumpnold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.burtoncrumpnold.co.uk\/?p=1154","title":{"rendered":"A Surprise &#8216;Back to School&#8217; at Burton Crumpnold"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After years of looking we managed to get a lucky EBay (Good Value) purchase of a long time &#8216;Wish List&#8217; steam loco for Burton Crumpnold.<br>.. It is in celebration of the fact that my beautiful wife was born in Cheltenham.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So we have 4-4-0 Schools Class Loco &#8216;<strong>Cheltenham Schools<\/strong>&#8216; 30925, Lined and with the BR Early Crest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"232\" class=\"wp-image-1155\" style=\"width: 800px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.burtoncrumpnold.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Schools1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Cheltenham Schools\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.burtoncrumpnold.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Schools1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/www.burtoncrumpnold.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Schools1-600x174.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.burtoncrumpnold.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Schools1-1024x297.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.burtoncrumpnold.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Schools1-768x223.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.burtoncrumpnold.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Schools1-1536x445.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.burtoncrumpnold.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Schools1-2048x593.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Here it is running on my Rolling Road. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"281\" class=\"wp-image-1156\" style=\"width: 800px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.burtoncrumpnold.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Schools2RR1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Cheltenham School on the Rolling Road.\n\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.burtoncrumpnold.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Schools2RR1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/www.burtoncrumpnold.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Schools2RR1-600x211.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.burtoncrumpnold.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Schools2RR1-1024x360.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.burtoncrumpnold.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Schools2RR1-768x270.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.burtoncrumpnold.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Schools2RR1-1536x540.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.burtoncrumpnold.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Schools2RR1-2048x720.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><br> I actually prefer the Malachite Green finish &#8211; but with no SR Coaching stock in my collection this will work well with my BR Rhubarb and Custard ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> I am actually quite a fan of the very underrated 4-4-0 and 4-4-2 locos &#8211; so the plan, when the layout is operations to get a Midland Compound (no 1000 preferably)  to join the &#8216;Schools&#8217;..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After years of looking we managed to get a lucky EBay (Good Value) purchase of a long time &#8216;Wish List&#8217; steam loco for Burton Crumpnold&#8230; It is in celebration of the fact that my beautiful wife was born in Cheltenham. So we have 4-4-0 Schools Class Loco &#8216;Cheltenham Schools&#8216; 30925, Lined and with the BR &#8230; <a title=\"A Surprise &#8216;Back to School&#8217; at Burton Crumpnold\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.burtoncrumpnold.co.uk\/?p=1154\" aria-label=\"Read more about A Surprise &#8216;Back to School&#8217; at Burton Crumpnold\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whatsnew"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.burtoncrumpnold.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.burtoncrumpnold.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.burtoncrumpnold.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.burtoncrumpnold.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.burtoncrumpnold.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1154"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.burtoncrumpnold.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1161,"href":"https:\/\/www.burtoncrumpnold.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154\/revisions\/1161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.burtoncrumpnold.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.burtoncrumpnold.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.burtoncrumpnold.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}