{"id":2014,"date":"2026-02-08T11:40:41","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T11:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/?p=2014"},"modified":"2026-02-08T11:40:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T11:40:41","slug":"west-clare-railway-closure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/2026\/02\/08\/west-clare-railway-closure\/","title":{"rendered":"West Clare Railway closure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The West Clare Railway closed at the end of January 1961.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/archives\/2026\/0123\/1554748-west-clare-railway-ends\/\">RTE website<\/a> has an archive radio broadcast taken on the final day of operation (no TV in those days!), interviewing both passengers and staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The West Clare Railway closed at the end of January 1961. The RTE website has an archive radio broadcast taken on the final day of operation (no TV in those days!), interviewing both passengers and staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2015,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014\/revisions\/2015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}