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	<title>Railways of Afghanistan</title>
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	<description>Afghan railroads, past, present and future</description>
	<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:07:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Kabul railway coach photo</title>
		<link>http://www.andrewgrantham.co.uk/afghanistan/2205/kabul-railway-coach-photo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Grantham</dc:creator>
		
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Google&#8217;s archive of photos from Life has this one (above) captioned &#8220;Deserted Afghan railway car after failure to begin rail system&#8221;. 

Dated 1938 in the caption, the picture shows an overgrown bogie coach from the short-lived narrow gauge railway which ran for 7 km between Kabul and Darulaman.

The number painted at each end is &#8220;2&#8243; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The tribes were very restive and hostile&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.andrewgrantham.co.uk/afghanistan/2239/the-tribes-were-very-restive-and-hostile/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Grantham</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Khyber Pass]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just been re-reading a fascinating book I found whilst browsing dusty shelves in a bookshop in Rawalpindi when I was last in Pakistan (1997). It is called &#8220;Adventure Through Khyber&#8221; by Victor Bayley &#8230; His task: to design and supervise the construction of a railway through the Khyber Pass, a railway which would eventually [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cost of road transport</title>
		<link>http://www.andrewgrantham.co.uk/afghanistan/2268/cost-of-road-transport/</link>
		<comments>http://www.andrewgrantham.co.uk/afghanistan/2268/cost-of-road-transport/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:47:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Grantham</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan's railways]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[roads]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Writing in Viewpoint: Measuring success in Afghanistan, Fotini Christia, a political scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who has recently spent time in Afghanistan researching conflict and development says: 
The cost of transporting goods is increased by violence and the chances of being attacked on the roads. If transport costs on a route were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Visit of their Majesties the King and Queen of Afghanistan to Swindon Works</title>
		<link>http://www.andrewgrantham.co.uk/afghanistan/2250/visit-of-their-majesties-the-king-and-queen-of-afghanistan-to-swindon-works/</link>
		<comments>http://www.andrewgrantham.co.uk/afghanistan/2250/visit-of-their-majesties-the-king-and-queen-of-afghanistan-to-swindon-works/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 19:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Grantham</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Photographs]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Amanullah]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[GWR]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Swindon]]></category>

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Swindon Local Studies Collection has an image of the commemorative booklet containing an illustrated history of Swindon works in Persian which was produced when King Amanullah visited the Great Western Railway&#8217;s works on 21 March 1928. 
The Queen did not attend as had been planned: &#8220;it was understood that the Royal lady was too fatigued [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mazar-i-Sharif line construction work</title>
		<link>http://www.andrewgrantham.co.uk/afghanistan/2247/mazar-i-sharif-line-construction-work/</link>
		<comments>http://www.andrewgrantham.co.uk/afghanistan/2247/mazar-i-sharif-line-construction-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Grantham</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan's railways]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Projects]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Mazar-i-Sharif]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Uznews]]></category>

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Uzbekistan to build railway line in Afghanistan
Uznews.net – A wage of $500 per month, poor living and working conditions and the lack of security – this is what Uzbek railway builders are offered to build the Hairaton-Mazar-e Sharif railway line in northern Afghanistan.
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The salary of $500 per month is very good in Uzbekistan but many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Summer Holiday</title>
		<link>http://www.andrewgrantham.co.uk/afghanistan/2187/summer-holiday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 19:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Grantham</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Miscellaneous stuff]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[bus]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A 1978 tale of travelling through Afghanistan - and a coup - on a British 1954 Bristol Lodekka bus&#8230;!
Phew, that was close.
For bus anoraks, &#8220;Grunt&#8221; was Bristol Omnibus LD6B registration number YHT940, scrapped 1989/90. Apparently.
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		<title>Tajik rail link offered</title>
		<link>http://www.andrewgrantham.co.uk/afghanistan/2235/tajik-rail-link-offered/</link>
		<comments>http://www.andrewgrantham.co.uk/afghanistan/2235/tajik-rail-link-offered/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Grantham</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan's railways]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Mazar-i-Sharif]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Tajikistan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Islamabad-Dushanbe flights will start by March: Tajik envoy
[...]
The ambassador [of Tajikistan to Pakistan, Zubaydullo N Zubaydov] said that he would like to acknowledge that at the London Conference held on January 28, 2010 on providing stability and security in Afghanistan, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Tajikistan announced that Tajik side has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Russian discussion</title>
		<link>http://www.andrewgrantham.co.uk/afghanistan/2228/russian-discussion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.andrewgrantham.co.uk/afghanistan/2228/russian-discussion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 19:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Grantham</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan's railways]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Towraghondi]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Russian language-discussion of Afghan railways, via Google Translate
It looks like I need to find a copy of the book  Выполняя Интернациональный Долг (and learn Russian).
Yes, the branch Kushka-Toragundi there a long time. I have personally seen covered freight wagons in the WCD Toragundi, when he served in Afghanistan, in 1986 and I have a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Uzbek bottleneck on the Northern Distribution Network</title>
		<link>http://www.andrewgrantham.co.uk/afghanistan/2223/uzbek-bottleneck-on-the-northern-distribution-network/</link>
		<comments>http://www.andrewgrantham.co.uk/afghanistan/2223/uzbek-bottleneck-on-the-northern-distribution-network/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:17:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Grantham</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Hayratan]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[military railway]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[NATO]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[NDN]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Termez]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
AFGHANISTAN: WASHINGTON EXPLORING CHINESE RE-SUPPLY ROUTE
Deirdre Tynan 2/02/10 
[...]
On land, the NDN also appears to be experiencing some problems. Although the US Department of Defense insists the NDN is running at top capacity, Dmitri Rogozin, Russia’s mischievous envoy to NATO, told the Russian news paper Izvestia on January 26 that &#8220;there are some technical problems [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NATO transit traffic</title>
		<link>http://www.andrewgrantham.co.uk/afghanistan/2219/nato-transit-traffic/</link>
		<comments>http://www.andrewgrantham.co.uk/afghanistan/2219/nato-transit-traffic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 09:04:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Grantham</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan's railways]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Kazakhstan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From Russian Transport Daily Report, 1 February 2010:
NATO Cargo Transit through Russia May Start within Days
Railway transit of non-lethal NATO freight through Russia and Central Asia to NATO forces in Afghanistan may start within days. This would seriously supplement transportation through the main transit route, which passes through Pakistan. Pakistan will most likely remain the [...]]]></description>
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