{"id":4244,"date":"2024-03-14T22:00:13","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T14:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/?p=4244"},"modified":"2024-03-19T09:02:10","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T01:02:10","slug":"railway-stations-of-the-world-luang-prabang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/railway-stations-of-the-world-luang-prabang\/","title":{"rendered":"Railway Stations of the World, Luang Prabang"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Railway Stations of the World takes us to the Lao People&#8217;s Democratic Republic and Luang Prabang. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This station was opened in December 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/LuangPrabangStation1.jpeg-RGB.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/LuangPrabangStation1.jpeg-RGB.jpeg\" alt=\"Luang Prabang Station, Lao PDR\" class=\"wp-image-4245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/LuangPrabangStation1.jpeg-RGB.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/LuangPrabangStation1.jpeg-RGB-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/LuangPrabangStation1.jpeg-RGB-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/LuangPrabangStation1.jpeg-RGB-400x300.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Luang Prabang Station, Lao PDR<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/LuangPrabangStation2.jpeg-RGB.jpeg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/LuangPrabangStation2.jpeg-RGB-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"Noticeboard and foyer Luang Prabang Station, Lao PDR\" class=\"wp-image-4246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/LuangPrabangStation2.jpeg-RGB-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/LuangPrabangStation2.jpeg-RGB-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/LuangPrabangStation2.jpeg-RGB.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Noticeboard and foyer Luang Prabang Station, Lao PDR<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/LuangPrabangStationPano.jpeg-RGB-scaled.jpeg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"237\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/LuangPrabangStationPano.jpeg-RGB-1024x237.jpeg\" alt=\"Panorama of the inside of Luang Prabang Station \" class=\"wp-image-4249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/LuangPrabangStationPano.jpeg-RGB-1024x237.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/LuangPrabangStationPano.jpeg-RGB-300x70.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/LuangPrabangStationPano.jpeg-RGB-768x178.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/LuangPrabangStationPano.jpeg-RGB-1536x356.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/LuangPrabangStationPano.jpeg-RGB-2048x475.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/LuangPrabangStationPano.jpeg-RGB-500x116.jpeg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Panorama of the inside of Luang Prabang Station, Lao PDR<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rather an attractive station that is very Chinese in so many ways: the furnishings, the layout, signage and even some of the announcements (I think). However, this is crowned by  a wonderful architecture complete with local motifs. It really deserves to have more trains than it currently serves, but maybe, just maybe, if the Belt and Road does expand all the way down to Singapore as planned that will happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Luang_Prabang_railway_station\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Luang_Prabang_railway_station<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Railway Stations of the World takes us to the Lao People&#8217;s Democratic Republic and Luang Prabang.<\/p>\n<p>Opened in December 2021 it is rather an attractive station that is very Chinese in so many ways: the furnishings, the layout, signage and even some of the announcements (I think). However, this is crowned by a wonderful architecture complete with local motifs. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/railway-stations-of-the-world-luang-prabang\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,5],"tags":[63],"class_list":["post-4244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-railway-stations","category-travel-pics","tag-travel-pics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4244"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4254,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4244\/revisions\/4254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}