{"id":15773,"date":"2012-07-12T12:00:54","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T12:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/6201.co.uk\/?p=15773"},"modified":"2017-01-08T14:37:27","modified_gmt":"2017-01-08T14:37:27","slug":"a-glorious-day-for-lizzie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/6201.co.uk\/index.php\/2012\/07\/12\/a-glorious-day-for-lizzie\/","title":{"rendered":"A Glorious Day for Lizzie"},"content":{"rendered":"

11 July 2012
\nThe Society is proud to report that on 11 July 2012 \u2018Princess Elizabeth\u2019 was called upon to haul the Royal Train conveying Her Majesty the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh on the Newport\u2013Hereford, and Worcester-Oxford legs of the Diamond Jubilee Tour.<\/p>\n<\/span>\n

It is believed that this is the first occasion that the Monarch has travelled behind the Locomotive which was named after her and is a momentous occasion for the Society coming as it does just weeks ahead of the 50th anniversary of \u2018Lizzie\u2019s\u2019 passing into preservation. To have been allowed this honour realises the cherished ambition of a number of people who have long been associated with the Locomotive, none more so than our \u2018talisman\u2019 Roger Bell who was able to witness the spectacle as the locomotive which he secured for posterity all those years ago hauled the Royal Train through Cheltenham.<\/p>\n<\/span>\n

We feel that hauling the Royal Train, together with the appearance at the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant, has added perhaps the most significant chapter of all to the long, rich history of our Locomotive. It seems particularly fitting that we have been able to do this in our Golden Jubilee year and we will take a great deal from the experience which will last long in our memories.<\/p>\n<\/span>\n

However, we must recognize that there are a considerable number of Society members \u2013 some of whom have since passed away \u2013 without whose efforts this 50 year journey and all that it has encompassed would simply not have been possible. We owe them a huge debt, and must also respect their many contributions in the way that we plan ahead to (and beyond) the organization and funding of the forthcoming 10 year overhaul. By doing this we hope to ensure that the future custodians of the engine are able to sustain both \u2018Lizzie\u2019s\u2019 standing in Railway folklore, and place in the hearts of the wide number people to whom she means so much in such a variety of ways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

11 July 2012 The Society is proud to report that on 11 July 2012 \u2018Princess Elizabeth\u2019 was called upon to haul the Royal Train conveying Her Majesty the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh on the Newport\u2013Hereford, and Worcester-Oxford legs of the Diamond Jubilee Tour. It is believed that this…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[181,179,182,178,180,177],"class_list":["post-15773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-news","tag-golden-jubilee","tag-hereford","tag-lizzie","tag-newport","tag-royal-train","tag-the-queen","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/6201.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/6201.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/6201.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6201.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6201.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15773"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/6201.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15842,"href":"https:\/\/6201.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15773\/revisions\/15842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/6201.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6201.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6201.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}