{"id":1138,"date":"2020-06-24T16:01:22","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T15:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1138"},"modified":"2020-08-03T14:55:25","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T13:55:25","slug":"useful-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2020\/06\/24\/useful-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Useful Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I had a very useful meeting (well, Zoom call) with Alice Gillman from Vivarail &#8211; the company that is converting former London Underground trains to a variety of different traction modes such as overhead electric, battery power or diesel, or hybrid combinations. I have been aware of Vivarail for a long time, and indeed Chief Executive Adrian Shooter&#8217;s excellent work at Chiltern Railway before that, and I believe their trains have a viable offer to make particular for journeys where part of the route is electrified but small sections are not. It really doesn&#8217;t make any sense to be running diesel trains &#8220;under the wire&#8221; any more as happens with local services in Northumberland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I had a very useful meeting (well, Zoom call) with Alice Gillman from Vivarail &#8211; the company that&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chairmans-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1138"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1144,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138\/revisions\/1144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}