{"id":13684,"date":"2026-02-25T10:21:58","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T10:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.teignrail.co.uk\/scouting\/?p=13684"},"modified":"2026-02-25T10:21:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T10:21:58","slug":"amazing-spaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teignrail.co.uk\/scouting\/amazing-spaces\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazing Spaces"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>In 2013, the railway wrote to Plum Pictures, the producers of Channel Four&#8217;s &#8220;George Clarke&#8217;s Amazing Spaces,&#8221; putting forward &#8220;The World&#8217;s Smallest Sleeping Car&#8221; as a possible subject.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve always claimed it is unique. 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Not many days later, the producers rang to say that they wanted to film at Christow for the next series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By then, the railway had changed its mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;But everyone wants to be on telly.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Not everyone.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2013, the railway wrote to Plum Pictures, the producers of Channel Four&#8217;s &#8220;George Clarke&#8217;s Amazing Spaces,&#8221; putting forward &#8220;The World&#8217;s Smallest Sleeping Car&#8221; as a possible subject. &#8220;We&#8217;ve always claimed it is unique. We wonder if you think it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teignrail.co.uk\/scouting\/amazing-spaces\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teignrail.co.uk\/scouting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13684"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teignrail.co.uk\/scouting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teignrail.co.uk\/scouting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teignrail.co.uk\/scouting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teignrail.co.uk\/scouting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.teignrail.co.uk\/scouting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13688,"href":"https:\/\/www.teignrail.co.uk\/scouting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13684\/revisions\/13688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teignrail.co.uk\/scouting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teignrail.co.uk\/scouting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teignrail.co.uk\/scouting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}