{"id":1732,"date":"2019-06-02T18:26:35","date_gmt":"2019-06-02T17:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.srpsbirkhillgroup.org.uk\/?p=1732"},"modified":"2019-06-03T08:27:07","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T07:27:07","slug":"weekend-update-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.srpsbirkhillgroup.org.uk\/?p=1732","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Work continued on planting up the boarders, baskets and containers with bedding plants, this year we are to try hanging baskets to see how they will cope watering wise with only getting to visit the station twice a week keeping hanging baskets watered is a concern. Work also commenced on thinning out areas of the platform embankment and attempting to identify the plants we have. Where possible the intent is to create additional plants from the thinning out exercise for planting on elsewhere in the station grounds. There are several different varieties of geraniums along the embankment and its hoped we can create areas that will show them off better in years to come.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.srpsbirkhillgroup.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Birkhill-02062019-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1733 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.srpsbirkhillgroup.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Birkhill-02062019-2-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.srpsbirkhillgroup.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Birkhill-02062019-2-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.srpsbirkhillgroup.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Birkhill-02062019-2-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.srpsbirkhillgroup.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Birkhill-02062019-2-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.srpsbirkhillgroup.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Birkhill-02062019-2.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.srpsbirkhillgroup.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Birkhill-02062019-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1734 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.srpsbirkhillgroup.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Birkhill-02062019-1-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.srpsbirkhillgroup.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Birkhill-02062019-1-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.srpsbirkhillgroup.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Birkhill-02062019-1-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.srpsbirkhillgroup.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Birkhill-02062019-1-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.srpsbirkhillgroup.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Birkhill-02062019-1.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stalwart diesel 27001 returning from Manuel with the empty SRPS coach stock used on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Work continued on planting up the boarders, baskets and containers with bedding plants, this year we are to try hanging baskets to see how they will cope watering wise with only getting to visit the station twice a week keeping hanging baskets watered is a concern. Work also commenced on thinning out areas of the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.srpsbirkhillgroup.org.uk\/?p=1732\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Weekend Update&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-station-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srpsbirkhillgroup.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srpsbirkhillgroup.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srpsbirkhillgroup.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srpsbirkhillgroup.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srpsbirkhillgroup.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1732"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.srpsbirkhillgroup.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1736,"href":"https:\/\/www.srpsbirkhillgroup.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732\/revisions\/1736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srpsbirkhillgroup.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srpsbirkhillgroup.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srpsbirkhillgroup.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}