{"id":74998,"date":"2025-05-07T07:40:24","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T07:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=74998"},"modified":"2025-05-07T07:40:24","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T07:40:24","slug":"teenagers-will-be-allowed-to-drive-trains-in-bid-to-beat-the-staff-shortages-and-cut-cancellations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/05\/07\/teenagers-will-be-allowed-to-drive-trains-in-bid-to-beat-the-staff-shortages-and-cut-cancellations\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenagers will be allowed to drive trains in bid to beat the staff shortages and cut cancellations"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1Ej85F.img?w=534&amp;h=360&amp;m=6\" alt=\"A driver sits in the cab of an Elizabeth line train during a test run through London in May 2022\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Teenagers will be allowed to drive trains in Britain amid concerns over ongoing driver shortages as the minimum age is lowered to 18 from 20.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/money\/other\/teenagers-will-be-allowed-to-drive-trains-in-bid-to-beat-the-staff-shortages-and-cut-cancellations\/ar-AA1EjacS?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=a6c5aaa0318846f9b5c8495f8ec01903&amp;ei=111\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Teenagers will be allowed to drive trains in Britain amid concerns over ongoing driver shortages as the minimum age is lowered to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-74998","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/elizabeth-line-train-at-station.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74999,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74998\/revisions\/74999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}