{"id":147,"date":"2016-10-10T12:25:53","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T11:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aberystwythsilverband.co.uk\/cms\/?p=147"},"modified":"2016-10-14T13:34:52","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T12:34:52","slug":"the-bandroom-a-history-1926-2016-chapter-4-railway-neighbours-1960-1980","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aberystwythsilverband.co.uk\/cms\/2016\/10\/10\/the-bandroom-a-history-1926-2016-chapter-4-railway-neighbours-1960-1980\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bandroom &#8211; A History (1926-2016) &#8211; Chapter 4 Railway Neighbours 1960 &#8211; 1980"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-144 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aberystwythsilverband.co.uk\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/14370415_1092845604130068_4968161406939765855_n.jpg\" alt=\"14370415_1092845604130068_4968161406939765855_n\" width=\"247\" height=\"146\" \/>The Vale of Rheidol railway, although fenced off, ran in front of the bandroom from 1926 until Easter 1968.<br \/>\nThe band players had to access the bandroom along a path which led from Park\u00a0Avenue alongside the main cattle market building.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nIn the photograph below we can see passengers and crew boarding a train that\u2019s preparing to depart for Devil\u2019s Bridge hauled by no. 8 Llewelyn.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-145 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aberystwythsilverband.co.uk\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/14322678_1092845607463401_8901598340881684327_n.jpg\" alt=\"14322678_1092845607463401_8901598340881684327_n\" width=\"398\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aberystwythsilverband.co.uk\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/14322678_1092845607463401_8901598340881684327_n.jpg 398w, https:\/\/www.aberystwythsilverband.co.uk\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/14322678_1092845607463401_8901598340881684327_n-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 398px) 100vw, 398px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-146\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aberystwythsilverband.co.uk\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/14317611_1092845600796735_6212674033882607011_n.jpg\" alt=\"14317611_1092845600796735_6212674033882607011_n\" width=\"271\" height=\"178\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On the other side of the bandroom boundary wall was the platform formerly used by main line trains to Carmarthen which lasted until 1965, the year of its closure. That dedicated platform and track for southbound trains was taken over by the Vale of Rheidol railway soon after.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>by\u00a0Peter Henley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vale of Rheidol railway, although fenced off, ran in front of the bandroom from 1926 until Easter 1968. The band players had to access the bandroom along a path which led from Park\u00a0Avenue alongside the main cattle market building. &nbsp; In the photograph below we can see passengers and crew boarding a train that\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_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":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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.aberystwythsilverband.co.uk\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/14370415_1092845604130068_4968161406939765855_n.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7Votx-2n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aberystwythsilverband.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aberystwythsilverband.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aberystwythsilverband.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aberystwythsilverband.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aberystwythsilverband.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.aberystwythsilverband.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151,"href":"https:\/\/www.aberystwythsilverband.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions\/151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aberystwythsilverband.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aberystwythsilverband.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aberystwythsilverband.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aberystwythsilverband.co.uk\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}