{"id":10457,"date":"2012-12-29T15:45:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-29T15:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=10457"},"modified":"2022-09-05T21:30:46","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T20:30:46","slug":"all-aboard-the-sir-tom-jones-express-cardiff-queen-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/all-aboard-the-sir-tom-jones-express-cardiff-queen-street\/","title":{"rendered":"All aboard the Sir Tom Jones express, Cardiff Queen Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"10458\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/all-aboard-the-sir-tom-jones-express-cardiff-queen-street\/sir-tom-jones-express\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/sir-tom-jones-express.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"620,367\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"All aboard the Sir Tom Jones Express, Cardiff Queen Street\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/sir-tom-jones-express.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10458\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/sir-tom-jones-express.jpg\" alt=\"All aboard the Sir Tom Jones Express, Cardiff Queen Street\" width=\"620\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/sir-tom-jones-express.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/sir-tom-jones-express-300x177.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I imagine Sir Tom Jones was well chuffed when he learnt that he was getting a train named after him &#8211; but I suspect he was a little less enthusiastic when he got to see the actual train in question &#8211; a creaky old Pacer!<\/p>\n<p>Spotted at Queen Street station in Cardiff on Wednesday evening and ready to splutter up to his home town of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/great-drugs-for-sale-at-the-e-in-store-treforest-south-wales\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Treforest<\/a> (near Pontypridd) was this knackered old Arriva diesel bearing the singer&#8217;s name.<\/p>\n<p>The passenger looks suitably unimpressed too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I imagine Sir Tom Jones was well chuffed when he learnt that he was getting a train named after him &#8211; but I suspect he was a little less enthusiastic &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20,43,193,90,16],"tags":[499,498,455,1194],"class_list":["post-10457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cardiff","category-music","category-places","category-railways","category-wales","tag-pontypridd","tag-tom-jones","tag-treforest","tag-wales"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/sir-tom-jones-express.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-2IF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10457"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20790,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10457\/revisions\/20790"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}