{"id":239,"date":"2015-09-23T15:14:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T15:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.burtoncrumpnold.co.uk\/?p=239"},"modified":"2020-06-23T16:50:49","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T16:50:49","slug":"2015-a-spark-of-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.burtoncrumpnold.co.uk\/?p=239","title":{"rendered":"2015 &#8211; A Spark of Hope.."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>Again .. the year started well.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>09\/02\/2015<\/strong><br>&#8216;<strong>We have just recently moved to North Wales, hence no updates for the last few months&#8217;..<\/strong>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The room where the layout will be located is currently being used as a &#8216;storeroom&#8217; whilst the kitchen is being redone &#8211; so it will be a while before &#8216;Proper&#8217; model railway work can resume..<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>23\/09\/2015<\/strong><br>Great moment in our new home.. Finally dusted off and assembled Burton Phoenix in a room that now has space to run it. I also indulged in my first railway purchase for quite a while &#8211; A Heljan &#8216;Park Royal&#8217; Railbus. I particularly wanted one of these as we used to live near the site in North London. .. After testing the layout electrics with good ol &#8216;Smokey Joe&#8217; here is the new Railbus in action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"184\" class=\"wp-image-199\" style=\"width: 450px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.burtoncrumpnold.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/railbus_web.jpg\" alt=\"railbus_web\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.burtoncrumpnold.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/railbus_web.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.burtoncrumpnold.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/railbus_web-300x122.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.burtoncrumpnold.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/railbus_web-1024x418.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.burtoncrumpnold.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/railbus_web-768x313.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>.. But again &#8216;Life&#8217; and the challenges on working on a large House that is more of a &#8216;project&#8217; kept me away from railways&#8230;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Again .. the year started well. 09\/02\/2015&#8216;We have just recently moved to North Wales, hence no updates for the last few months&#8217;.. The room where the layout will be located is currently being used as a &#8216;storeroom&#8217; whilst the kitchen is being redone &#8211; so it will be a while before &#8216;Proper&#8217; model railway work &#8230; <a title=\"2015 &#8211; A Spark of Hope..\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.burtoncrumpnold.co.uk\/?p=239\" aria-label=\"Read more about 2015 &#8211; A Spark of Hope..\">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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-workinprogress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.burtoncrumpnold.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","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=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.burtoncrumpnold.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":298,"href":"https:\/\/www.burtoncrumpnold.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions\/298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.burtoncrumpnold.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.burtoncrumpnold.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.burtoncrumpnold.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}