{"id":314398,"date":"2025-08-03T11:34:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T11:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/314398\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T11:34:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T11:34:12","slug":"to-the-sea-by-train-the-golden-age-of-railway-travel-is-a-trip-down-the-tracks-of-time-to-the-great-british-seaside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/314398\/","title":{"rendered":"To the Sea by Train: The Golden Age of Railway Travel is a trip down the tracks of time to the great British seaside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The book, beautifully and amusingly written and prodigiously well-informed, is part travelogue and part history. Martin enjoys the whimsical fantasies of English seaside arcana \u2014 and it was the railways which spawned the crazy golf courses, the lidos and aquariums, the end-of-pier, what-the-butler-saw diversions; and although railways didn\u2019t invent adultery, they greatly facilitated it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The book, beautifully and amusingly written and prodigiously well-informed, is part travelogue and part history. Martin enjoys the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3938],"tags":[17588,3444,77,41909,90885,183,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-314398","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-book-review","9":"tag-books","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-railways","12":"tag-seaside","13":"tag-travel","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114964625192914747","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}