{"id":3534,"date":"2011-07-05T07:55:56","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T11:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/?p=3534"},"modified":"2011-07-05T07:55:56","modified_gmt":"2011-07-05T11:55:56","slug":"swanage-steam-railway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/05\/swanage-steam-railway\/","title":{"rendered":"Swanage Steam Railway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_3036.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_3036.jpg\"> <\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3532\" aria-labelledby=\"figcaption_attachment_3532\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 235px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_3036.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3532\" title=\"Swanage steam train at Corfe Castle Station\" src=\"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_3036-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_3036-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_3036-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment_3532\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Swanage steam train at Corfe Castle Station<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In what now appears to be an annual pilgrimage the Grumpy Vegan spends a few days in Swanage, Dorset.<\/p>\n<p>Read about last year&#8217;s visit <a title=\"Swanage 2010\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kimstallwood.com\/2010\/06\/17\/swanage-railway\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>No visit is complete without a ride on the <a title=\"Swanage Railway\" href=\"http:\/\/www.swanagerailway.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Swanage Railway<\/a>. This year we took the steam train to Corfe Castle, which can be seen in the top left hand of this photograph taken from the pedestrian bridge at Corfe Castle station.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s something truly wonderful about sitting in an old wooden railway carriage pulled by a steam train as rumbles through the beautiful Dorset countryside. A gentle combination of nostalgia and somnolence.<\/p>\n<p>We also visited the model village at Corfe Castle, which intriguingly offers a photo opportunity to capture the complete model castle and the incomplete real thing.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3539\" aria-labelledby=\"figcaption_attachment_3539\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 310px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG00286.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3539\" title=\"Corfe Castle\" src=\"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG00286-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG00286-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG00286-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG00286.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment_3539\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Model village Corfe Castle in the foreground. The real thing in the distance.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what now appears to be an annual pilgrimage the Grumpy Vegan spends a few days in Swanage, Dorset. Read about last year&#8217;s visit here. No visit is complete without a ride on the Swanage Railway. This year we took &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/05\/swanage-steam-railway\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[24,36],"class_list":["post-3534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-grumpy-vegan-life","tag-glimpses","tag-why-britain-is-great"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}