{"id":33310,"date":"2022-05-14T16:57:22","date_gmt":"2022-05-14T15:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=33310"},"modified":"2022-05-14T16:57:22","modified_gmt":"2022-05-14T15:57:22","slug":"vintage-train-journeys-at-risk-as-coal-supply-fails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=33310","title":{"rendered":"Vintage train journeys at risk as coal supply fails"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-28284\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/North-York-Moors-Historical-Railway-2015_131120_300px.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"211\" \/>Heritage railways, which make millions for UK economy, are axing services as mines close and Russian sources are ruled out.<\/h3>\n<h6><em>image: for illustration purposes only &#8211; P Badcock<\/em><\/h6>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u00a0<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u2026 stocks are now dangerously low and the prospects of replacing them in the near future look bleak\u2026<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n<p><em>The Guardian<\/em> writes:<\/p>\n<p>Britain\u2019s heritage railways are running out of steam. Or, to be more precise, coal. Vintage rail operators across the country have warned that their stocks are now dangerously low and the prospects of replacing them in the near future look bleak\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the UK\u2019s heritage rail companies say they are already having to cut services just as they prepare for the Easter break, when their main operating seasons begin. \u201cIt is a very serious problem,\u201d said Paul Lewin, of Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland Railways.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUK coal for steam trains has now gone and our next supply source was to be Russia, which is now off the table\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This view was shared by Steve Oates, chief executive of the Heritage Railway Association. \u201cThe situation is very serious,\u201d he said\u2026<\/p>\n<p>An example of the value of heritage lines to a region is provided by Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland Railways, whose steam trains \u2013 which run from Porthmadog to Blaenau Ffestiniog and from Caernarfon to Porthmadog \u2013 attract around 200,000 visitors a year, generating an estimated \u00a325m for the local economy.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is that steam trains consume coal, an energy source now vilified for being a major source of greenhouse gases\u2026.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/travel\/2022\/apr\/10\/vintage-train-journeys-uk-at-risk-as-coal-supply-fails\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heritage railways, which make millions for UK economy, are axing services as mines close and Russian sources are ruled out. image: for illustration purposes only &#8211; P Badcock<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33311,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33310\/revisions\/33311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}