{"id":496,"date":"2010-08-30T20:56:40","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T20:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dur.ac.uk\/paul.hodgkinson\/wordpress\/?p=496"},"modified":"2023-03-09T13:36:28","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T13:36:28","slug":"st-marys-lighthouse-weardale-railway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/2010\/08\/st-marys-lighthouse-weardale-railway\/","title":{"rendered":"St Mary&#8217;s Lighthouse &#038; Weardale Railway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two short sets of photographs from a weekend in mid-June.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/2010\/08\/st-marys-lighthouse-weardale-railway\/stmaryslighthouse-1\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/StMarysLighthouse_1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"StMarysLighthouse 1\" title=\"StMarysLighthouse 1\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-5348\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Finally managed to visit <a title=\"Wikipedia on St. Mary's Lighthouse\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/St._Mary%27s_Lighthouse\">St Mary&#8217;s Lighthouse<\/a> when the tide was out and the lighthouse was open!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/2010\/08\/st-marys-lighthouse-weardale-railway\/stmarysnorth\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/StMarysNorth-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"StMarysNorth\" title=\"StMarysNorth\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-5349\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/2010\/08\/st-marys-lighthouse-weardale-railway\/stmarysnortheast\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/StMarysNorthEast-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"StMarysNorthEast\" title=\"StMarysNorthEast\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-5350\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Views north.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/2010\/08\/st-marys-lighthouse-weardale-railway\/stmaryswest\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/StMarysWest-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"StMarysWest\" title=\"StMarysWest\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-5351\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>View back along the causeway.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/2010\/08\/st-marys-lighthouse-weardale-railway\/weardalecarriages\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/WeardaleCarriages-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"WeardaleCarriages\" title=\"WeardaleCarriages\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-5346\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Train on the <a title=\"Wikipedia on the Weardale railway\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Weardale_Railway\">Weardale railway<\/a>.\u00a0 Like the Keighley &amp; Worth Valley Railway this is another preservation railway, mainline operations on this branch line from Bishop Auckland having stopped in 1993 (after the main industrial customer switched to road transport).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/2010\/08\/st-marys-lighthouse-weardale-railway\/weardalecows\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/WeardaleCows-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"WeardaleCows\" title=\"WeardaleCows\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-5345\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/2010\/08\/st-marys-lighthouse-weardale-railway\/weardalepoppies\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/WeardalePoppies-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"WeardalePoppies\" title=\"WeardalePoppies\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-5347\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photos from the walk along the valley from the terminus at Stanhope back to Wolsingham (the train not having stopped as we had expected as Forsterley&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two short sets of photographs from a weekend in mid-June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,14],"tags":[94,58,57,35,129,29],"class_list":["post-496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local","category-nature","tag-animals","tag-coast","tag-lighthouse","tag-plants","tag-sea","tag-trains"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ph-images.webspace.durham.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}