{"id":51645,"date":"2014-12-15T15:47:07","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T15:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=a33df622a4d1baebfc824d3e189499b3"},"modified":"2014-12-15T15:47:07","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T15:47:07","slug":"news-story-transport-secretary-welcomes-new-rail-services-for-blackpool-and-shrewsbury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=51645","title":{"rendered":"News story: Transport Secretary welcomes new rail services for Blackpool and Shrewsbury"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin today marked the <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.virgintrains.co.uk\/about\/media-room\/#\/news\/virgin-trains-brings-london-closer-to-blackpool-and-shrewsbury-101264\">launch of new Virgin Trains direct services<\/a> between London and Shrewsbury and London and Blackpool.<\/p>\n<p>Joining passengers on the first weekday service from Shrewsbury to London Euston this morning, Monday 15 December 2014, Patrick McLoughlin said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The launch of Virgin Trains\u2019 new direct services from London to Blackpool and Shrewsbury is great news for passengers, and I wish every success to the teams who will be running them<\/p>\n<p>This is another sign of the renaissance in Britain\u2019s railways, and we are already seeing more services, more passenger journeys, and more jobs being generated by the industry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Our rail network is a key part of our long term economic plan which is why more than \u00a338 billion will be invested in maintaining and upgrading the network over the next 5 years.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"contact\" id=\"contact_1019\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<h3>Rail media enquiries<\/h3>\n<div class=\"vcard contact-inner\">\n<div class=\"email-url-number\">\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Press enquiries<\/span><br \/>\n              020 7944 4671\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Out of hours<\/span><br \/>\n              020 7944 4292\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Public enquiries<\/span><br \/>\n              0300 330 3000\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick McLoughlin marks launch of direct rail services to and from London for Blackpool and Shropshire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51645"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}