{"id":566,"date":"2006-06-04T21:48:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-04T21:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/u75blog\/?p=566"},"modified":"2006-06-04T21:48:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-04T21:48:00","slug":"the-mad-railways-of-brighton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/the-mad-railways-of-brighton\/","title":{"rendered":"The mad railways of Brighton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/railway\/images\/daddy-long-legs-02.jpg\" title=\"Volk's Brighton to Rottingdean Seashore Electric railway\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I love this kind of mad Victorian stuff &#8211; check out Volk&#8217;s sea railway which ran for nearly three miles<i> in the sea<\/i> along Brighton&#8217;s coastline.<\/p>\n<p>Not surprisingly, it lasted less than seven years before being scrapped &#8211; which is rather a shame because it looked a mad ride.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/railway\/brighton-sea-railway.html\" target=\"_blank\">Volk&#8217;s Brighton to Rottingdean Seashore Electric railway<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/railway\/images\/volks-14.jpg\" title=\"Volk&rsquo;s Electric Railway, Brighton\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Happily, the nearly-as-eccentric Volk&rsquo;s Electric Railway remains open &#8211; now the oldest remaining operating electric railway in the world &#8211; running for a mile and a quarter along Brighton&#8217;s beach.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/railway\/volks-electric-railway.html\" target=\"_blank\">Volk&rsquo;s Electric Railway, Brighton<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love this kind of mad Victorian stuff &#8211; check out Volk&#8217;s sea railway which ran for nearly three miles in the sea along Brighton&#8217;s coastline. Not surprisingly, it lasted &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/daddy-long-legs-02.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-98","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566","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=566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}