{"id":270,"date":"2008-04-14T14:55:36","date_gmt":"2008-04-14T13:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=270"},"modified":"2008-04-14T14:57:42","modified_gmt":"2008-04-14T13:57:42","slug":"etrurias-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=270","title":{"rendered":"Etruria&#8217;s Gone!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well not the whole area, but the remains of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Etruria_railway_station\" target=\"_blank\">station<\/a>. Thanks to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dft.gov.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dft<\/a>&#8216;s shortsightedness another bit of public transport in North Staffordshire bites the dust! Only about 9 more to go and then we will have no more stations!<\/p>\n<p>Well to be fair, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wedgwood_railway_station\" target=\"_blank\">Wedgwood<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barlaston_railway_station\" target=\"_blank\">Blarlaston<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stone_railway_station\" target=\"_blank\">Stone<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Norton_Bridge_railway_station\" target=\"_blank\">Norton Bridge<\/a> are all effectively closed as no trains actually stop there, just buses! 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Thanks to the Dft&#8216;s shortsightedness another bit of public transport in North Staffordshire bites the dust! Only about 9 more to go and then we will have no more stations! Well to be fair, Wedgwood, Blarlaston, Stone and Norton Bridge are all effectively closed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-railways","category-rants"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paTxP-4m","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}