{"id":367248,"date":"2026-01-13T08:47:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T08:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/367248\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T08:47:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T08:47:12","slug":"pugneys-light-railway-railway-volunteers-devastated-after-vandalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/367248\/","title":{"rendered":"Pugneys Light Railway railway volunteers &#8216;devastated&#8217; after vandalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Brocklehurst said the trains were still running, with the damage only affecting infrastructure, such as the points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, he said the batteries that powered the trains could not be charged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a post on social media, Brocklehurst said the incident was the third case of vandalism in the last two months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said each incident had left volunteers &#8220;more devastated, more exhausted, and more heartbroken than the last&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;To see something built with love, care, and community spirit treated with such disregard is incredibly painful,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Brocklehurst said he had spoken to West Yorkshire Police on Sunday and since the incident had received &#8220;such a wealth of support from the local community&#8221;, with local businesses also offering to install security cameras.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s cheered us up no end, it&#8217;s quite humbling,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brocklehurst said the trains were still running, with the damage only affecting infrastructure, such as the points. However,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-367248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}