{"id":514384,"date":"2022-08-16T10:56:25","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T05:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=514384"},"modified":"2022-08-16T12:26:58","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T06:56:58","slug":"independence-day-2022-167-year-old-steam-engine-to-run-on-august-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/independence-day-2022-167-year-old-steam-engine-to-run-on-august-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Independence Day 2022: 167-year-old steam engine to run on August 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To mark the 75th year of Independence on August 15, Southern Railway will put on track the oldest steam locomotive in the country for a heritage run from Chennai Egmore to Kadambakkam.<\/p>\n<p>According to a tweet by Divisional Railway Manager, Chennai, Southern Railway, the oldest steam locomotive\u2013EIR-21\u2013will run from Chennai Egmore at 12 pm on August 15.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe oldest steam locomotive, EIR-21, manufactured in 1855, which hauled the first train from Howrah to Delhi in 1866, has been restored by Loco Works, Perambur. A heritage run of EIR-21 with one coach will be organised on 15-08-2022 from Chennai Egmore to Kodambakkam at 1200 hrs,\u201d DRM, Chennai, tweeted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To mark the 75th year of Independence on August 15, Southern Railway will put on track the oldest steam locomotive in the country for a heritage run from Chennai Egmore to Kadambakkam. According to a tweet by Divisional Railway Manager, Chennai, Southern Railway, the oldest steam locomotive\u2013EIR-21\u2013will run from Chennai Egmore at 12 pm on August 15. \u201cThe oldest steam locomotive, EIR-21, manufactured in 1855, which hauled the first train from Howrah to Delhi in 1866, has been restored by Loco Works, Perambur. A heritage run of EIR-21 with one coach will be organised on 15-08-2022 from Chennai Egmore to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-514384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}