{"id":107,"date":"2010-02-13T11:58:09","date_gmt":"2010-02-13T11:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/partridges.org.uk\/?p=107"},"modified":"2021-04-26T09:43:53","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T08:43:53","slug":"the-calais-railway-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/02\/13\/the-calais-railway-gun\/","title":{"rendered":"The Calais Railway Gun"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_109\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-109\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Railwaygun1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-109\" title=\"Railwaygun\" src=\"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Railwaygun1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"K5 railway gun\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Railwaygun1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Railwaygun1.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-109\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The K5 railway Gun<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A picture from the summer here, that I found when looking for something else in my photo archive. Its the WW2 German K5 railway gun at a museum on Cap Gris Nez near Calais. I dragged the family there when we were early for our ferry.<br \/>\nThe K5 is seriously impressive just for its sheer scale &#8211; the guns at the entrance of the Imperial War Museum are on a similar scale but aren&#8217;t mounted, so lack the impact.<br \/>\nFor those who want technical details, its a 283mm calibre gun (~11&#8243;) that fired shells weighting 255 kg up to 50 kilometres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A picture from the summer here, that I found when looking for something else in my photo archive. Its the WW2 German K5 railway gun at a museum on Cap Gris Nez near Calais. I dragged the family there when we were early for our ferry. The K5 is seriously impressive just for its sheer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/02\/13\/the-calais-railway-gun\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Calais Railway Gun&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wargaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":529,"href":"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions\/529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}