{"id":8555,"date":"2026-09-01T19:36:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T19:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8555"},"modified":"2026-09-01T19:36:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T19:36:21","slug":"trains-yesterday-today-at-slimbridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8555","title":{"rendered":"Trains Yesterday- Today at Slimbridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was our traditional Bank Holiday family get together in <strong>Cardiff<\/strong> to ride on the small trains. Lovely to see everyone again, it is a special day. We having been doing this ever since my sister <strong>Liz<\/strong> sadly passed away. My granddaughter <strong>Ellen<\/strong> took me on one train ride- we both got very excited.<\/p>\n<p>Today we took <strong>Ellen<\/strong> to <strong>Slimbridge<\/strong> and had a super time. Picture below!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_0139-scaled.jpeg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8556\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=8556\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_0139-scaled.jpeg?fit=2560%2C2404&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2560,2404\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.64&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 17e&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1788262352&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.2&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;25&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00073099415204678&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_0139\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_0139-scaled.jpeg?fit=584%2C549&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-8556\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_0139.jpeg?resize=481%2C453&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"481\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_0139-scaled.jpeg?resize=300%2C282&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_0139-scaled.jpeg?resize=1024%2C962&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_0139-scaled.jpeg?resize=768%2C721&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_0139-scaled.jpeg?resize=1536%2C1442&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_0139-scaled.jpeg?resize=2048%2C1923&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_0139-scaled.jpeg?resize=319%2C300&amp;ssl=1 319w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_0139-scaled.jpeg?w=1168&amp;ssl=1 1168w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_0139-scaled.jpeg?w=1752&amp;ssl=1 1752w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 481px) 100vw, 481px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was our traditional Bank Holiday family get together in Cardiff to ride on the small trains. Lovely to see everyone again, it is a special day. We having been doing this ever since my sister Liz sadly passed away. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8555\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2D5Gc-2dZ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8557,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8555\/revisions\/8557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}