{"id":1,"date":"2013-01-11T21:03:45","date_gmt":"2013-01-11T21:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewebtrain.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1"},"modified":"2015-10-28T14:43:34","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T14:43:34","slug":"webtrain-savvy-invitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thewebtrain.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/01\/webtrain-savvy-invitation\/","title":{"rendered":"A WebTrain Savvy Invitation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome – I extend an invitation to you to join in the WebTrain Savvy<\/em> railway blog: a new place to talk about what is important to people – in the world of the Web and the world of Trains (especially anything remotely train related).  The blog also forms part of my “TheWebTrain<\/a>” site, where you can also find a dedicated railway image gallery<\/a> covering both prototype\/real world and model railway pictures.<\/p>\n

The image gallery features photos of British, European and US railways – some of which, will feature in this blog.<\/p>\n

For more information, go to the “About WebTrain Savvy<\/a>” page.  You will find out a bit about me, an initial flavour of forthcoming posts and how you can join in this blog.<\/p>\n

If you are interested, come on board and join me on the WebTrain Savvy<\/em> – I hope you have an interesting and enjoyable journey.<\/p>\n

David George.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Welcome – I extend an invitation to you to join in the WebTrain Savvy railway blog: a new place to talk about what is important to people – in the world of the Web and the world of Trains (especially anything remotely train related).  The blog also forms part of my “TheWebTrain” site, where you can also … Continue reading “A WebTrain Savvy Invitation”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[28,30,27,29],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-railway","tag-rsvp","tag-trains","tag-web"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p348Ii-1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":241,"url":"https:\/\/www.thewebtrain.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/01\/live-sbb-trains-map-swiss-railway-system\/","url_meta":{"origin":1,"position":0},"title":"Live SBB Trains Map – Swiss Railway System","author":"David George","date":"24\/01\/2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The Swiss Railway (SBB) system is one of the most intensive in the world and it used to be possible to view a\u00a0real-time Live Trains Map of the SBB, complete with train identification and train search functionality? \u00a0Unfortunately, as you will by now have found, it longer seems to be\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Computing"","block_context":{"text":"Computing","link":"https:\/\/www.thewebtrain.co.uk\/blog\/category\/computing\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Swiss Live Trains map","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thewebtrain.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/swiss-live-trains-map-1024x664.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thewebtrain.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/swiss-live-trains-map-1024x664.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thewebtrain.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/swiss-live-trains-map-1024x664.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":332,"url":"https:\/\/www.thewebtrain.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/10\/liverpool-edge-hill-station-making-railway-history\/","url_meta":{"origin":1,"position":1},"title":"Liverpool Edge Hill Station making Railway History","author":"David George","date":"22\/10\/2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Railways, as we understand them, have been around for the best part of two centuries. 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