{"id":2240,"date":"2005-01-10T15:58:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-10T14:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avbp.net\/?p=2240"},"modified":"2005-01-10T15:58:00","modified_gmt":"2005-01-10T14:58:00","slug":"sustainable-tidbits-from-england-1-wensleydale-railway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/?p=2240","title":{"rendered":"Sustainable Tidbits from England #1 Wensleydale Railway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"275\" src=\"http:\/\/www.avbp.net\/assets\/images\/01030001.JPG\" width=\"350\"><br \/><strong><span>At end station high up in dales<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wensleydale Railway plc is not only one of Britain\u2019s newest train operating companies but also the only one run entirely by members of the local community. Locals assembled volunteers, started the company and raised more than \u00a31M.<\/p>\n<p>The service runs 7 days a week and provides a lifeline for locals and an environmentally prudent way into the Dales for tourists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re not trying to do anything that\u2019s not been done before but we\u2019re trying to pick the best examples of what we\u2019ve found overseas and implement them here.\u201d says chief executive Scott Handley.<\/p>\n<p><strong>AVBP comments:<\/strong> it just shows you the power of community action, the value of using old infrastructure (the railway started mid 19th century) and existing knowledge.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At end station high up in dales Wensleydale Railway plc is not only one of Britain\u2019s newest train operating companies but also the only one run entirely by members of the local community. Locals assembled volunteers, started the company and raised more than \u00a31M. The service runs 7 days a week and provides a lifeline [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-envisioning"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2240"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}