{"id":107080,"date":"2019-08-23T02:33:05","date_gmt":"2019-08-23T00:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/08\/23\/uk-rail-line-becomes-first-in-world-to-be-powered-by-solar-farm\/"},"modified":"2019-08-23T02:33:05","modified_gmt":"2019-08-23T00:33:05","slug":"uk-rail-line-becomes-first-in-world-to-be-powered-by-solar-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=107080","title":{"rendered":"UK rail line becomes first in world to be powered by solar farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pilot scheme on Network Rail\u2019s Wessex route paves way for solar-powered trainsThe world\u2019s first solar farm to power a railway line directly is due to plug into the track near Aldershot, paving the way for solar-powered trains.From Friday, about 100 solar panels at the trackside site will supply renewable electricity to power the signalling and lights on Network Rail\u2019s Wessex route. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2019\/aug\/22\/rail-line-in-hampshire-is-worlds-first-to-be-powered-by-solar-farm\" target=\"_blank\">UK rail line becomes first in world to be powered by solar farm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pilot scheme on Network Rail\u2019s Wessex route paves way for solar-powered trainsThe world\u2019s first solar farm to power a railway line directly is due to plug into the track near Aldershot, paving the way for solar-powered trains.From Friday, about 100 solar panels at the trackside site will supply renewable electricity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}