{"id":11,"date":"2015-10-22T13:29:08","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T13:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/festrail.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11"},"modified":"2015-10-22T13:29:08","modified_gmt":"2015-10-22T13:29:08","slug":"victorians-steam-into-porthmadog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/festrail.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/10\/22\/victorians-steam-into-porthmadog\/","title":{"rendered":"Victorians steam into Porthmadog"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_13\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13\" style=\"width: 1600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/festrail.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/DSC_0881s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/festrail.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/DSC_0881s.jpg\" alt=\"Prince on Gwyndy Bank during Victorian Weekend\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1060\" srcset=\"https:\/\/festrail.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/DSC_0881s.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/festrail.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/DSC_0881s-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/festrail.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/DSC_0881s-560x371.jpg 560w, https:\/\/festrail.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/DSC_0881s-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/festrail.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/DSC_0881s-1024x678.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prince on Gwyndy Bank during Victorian Weekend<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>October traditionally marks the last major event of the railway\u2019s calendar, the Ffestiniog\u2019s Victorian Weekend. This year saw the return of the popular gallopers at Harbour Station and once again shops along the High Street joined in the fun with staff in Victorian costume throughout the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>An intensive timetable saw appearances by gravity slate trains, Spooner\u2019s Boat and special guest Gerald Dickens &#8211; great, great grandson of Charles &#8211; put on a performance at Tan y Bwlch on the Friday night and at Porthmadog throughout Saturday (right).<\/p>\n<p>Palmerston made a welcome return to traffic in as-yet unlined red livery and Harbour Station was packed with staff and visitors dressed for the occasion. Pupils from Ysgol Eifion Wyn got the proceedings off to a great start with specially-composed songs performed on the platform before being rewarded with a free ride on the gallopers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October traditionally marks the last major event of the railway\u2019s calendar, the Ffestiniog\u2019s Victorian Weekend. This year saw the return of the popular&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,7,4,6,5],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-ffestiniog","tag-prince","tag-railway","tag-snowdonia","tag-steam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/festrail.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/festrail.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/festrail.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/festrail.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/festrail.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/festrail.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15,"href":"https:\/\/festrail.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions\/15"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/festrail.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/festrail.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/festrail.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/festrail.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}