{"id":7368,"date":"2016-09-04T11:31:53","date_gmt":"2016-09-04T11:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=7368"},"modified":"2016-09-04T11:31:53","modified_gmt":"2016-09-04T11:31:53","slug":"chronicle-exclusive-the-vanishing-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=7368","title":{"rendered":"Chronicle exclusive: the vanishing station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For local news Bath, Bristol&#8217;s near neighbour, is served by the Bath Chronicle. Like the Bristol Post, the Chronicle is part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Local_World\">Local World group<\/a> and shares its close neighbour&#8217;s reputation for (lack of) accuracy.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s Bath Chronicle carried an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bathchronicle.co.uk\/bath-spa-railway-station-trains-to-london-paddington-and-bristol-temple-meads-cancelled\/story-29681933-detail\/story.html\">exclusive<\/a>, but readers had to read the caption under the photograph accompanying the report to realise it.<\/p>\n<p>Bath Spa railway station used to look as shown in the photograph below.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7378\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7378\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2016\/09\/Bath_Spa_railway_station.jpg\" alt=\"Bath Spa railway station\" width=\"600\" height=\"367\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2016\/09\/Bath_Spa_railway_station.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2016\/09\/Bath_Spa_railway_station-300x184.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7378\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bath Spa railway station. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Close observation of today&#8217;s Bath Chronicle report, especially the photo caption, reveals there is no nowhere for InterCity 125s or any other passenger rolling stock to stop where Bath Spa station once stood.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7379\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7379\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2016\/09\/bath_chronicle_balls.png\" alt=\"photo caption on Chronicle piece reads Bath Spa railway statio Trains to London Paddington and Bristol Temple Meads delayed or cancelled\" width=\"600\" height=\"581\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2016\/09\/bath_chronicle_balls.png 600w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2016\/09\/bath_chronicle_balls-300x291.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7379\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The site of Bath Spa railway station according to the Bath Chronicle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>For the life of me I cannot understand why the Chronicle ignored the disappearance of a major piece of transport infrastructure and had its piece concentrate on delays to train services between the West of England and London Paddington. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For local news Bath, Bristol&#8217;s near neighbour, is served by the Bath Chronicle. Like the Bristol Post, the Chronicle is part of the Local World group and shares its close neighbour&#8217;s reputation for (lack of) accuracy. Today&#8217;s Bath Chronicle carried an exclusive, but readers had to read the caption under the photograph accompanying the report [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,3,32,17],"tags":[40,36,10,22,33],"class_list":["post-7368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bristol","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-media","category-oddities","tag-bristol","tag-comment","tag-facepalm","tag-language","tag-media-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7368"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7380,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7368\/revisions\/7380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}