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‘Preliminary work’ started on Kandahar and Jalalabad lines June 28, 2009
An official government of Pakistan press release dated 19 May 2009 claims preliminary work is underway for the long-planned Chaman – Spin Boldak – Kandahar extension of Pakistan’s rail network …
Gap in Britain to India rail route closed? June 26, 2009
Various news reports suggest that the Bam – Zahedan railway line in Iran is now physically complete. While there is no direct connection to any of the Afghan rail projects, this railway is important …
Hayratan – Mazar-i-Sharif railway plan June 23, 2009
Text of report by privately-owned Afghan Arzu TV on 18 June, reported by BBC Monitoring South Asia, 2009-06-19. Rail Road Project to Link North Afghanistan to Uzbekistan [Presenter] After a short …
Maps of planned Afghan rail projects June 21, 2009
Asian Development Bank’s documentation on the 7th Ministerial Conference on Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation held in Baku on 19–21 November 2008 includes a PDF with maps of the …
The role of Pakistan’s railways June 7, 2009
Shahid Javed Burki considers how the role of railways in (what is now) Pakistan has changed over the years in a 12 May 2009 Dawn article For a new transport policy It is always useful to reflect on …

Abbot’s Cliff hum and gusts June 21, 2009
A 75 second recording of the wind at the Abbot’s Cliff sound mirror on 2 April 2009 by Steven Rowell. Evident in this recording, with mic placed directly on concrete mirror concave face, is a …
Kilnsea sound mirror pictures June 14, 2009
Kilnsea Sound Mirror at From The Neolithic To The Sea. This is a personal journey through time and space, visiting many places and the story told in pictures and words. As with most journeys, we …
Yorkshire sound mirrrors June 7, 2009
Zeppelin Early Warning Sound Mirrors at the Yorkshire – God’s Own County blog. Between a messenger with a stick in Marathon or a Beacon on top of a hill but before Radar and electronic …
Denge photos May 31, 2009
Michael Rich has a slideshow of photos of Denge taken in April 2009. Peter King photography’s Sound Mirrors Photos were taken on 13 July 2008, and Echoes In The Sky Dungeness & Sound …
Conservation of the concrete mirrors May 24, 2009
When I went on one of the guided walks to the Denge sound mirrors, one of the other vistors was a construction worker who was somewhat critical of the quality of some of the original concrete on the …

Steel tender June 21, 2009
Ministry of Transport Iraqi Republic Railways Co Dept / Central purchasing Ref / RBG / Steel Wire Date 17 / 6 / 2009 Tender Announcement The Iraqi railways company “IRR” Baghdad Iraq announces …
Streamliner modelled in O-gauge June 7, 2009
David Argent has built an O-scale model of one of the three PC class streamlined pacific locomotives supplied to Iraq by Robert Stephenson & Hawthorns in 1941. There was a fourth, 504 Kirkuk …
Locomotives in action in Basra May 10, 2009
Two photographs by Matt Fallon showing Iraqi Republic Railways locomotives in action at Al Malqal, the port at Basra. DEM2817 is one of 30 locomotives supplied by Ukraine’s Lugansk Locomotive …
Iraqi passenger services in The Times April 19, 2009
The Times had a couple of articles about passenger services in Iraq last week. One is Iraq’s struggle to get railway back on track after neglect and war (14 April 2009). It seems the Baghdad …
Railways of Afghanistan website relaunched April 11, 2009
The Railways of Afghanistan website has been relaunched with a new, more permanent and easier to use home at http://www.andrewgrantham.co.uk/afghanistan/ This will bring all the news, updates and …