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Please don’t believe everything on Twitter!
Torghundi rail terminal in 1960
A photo of a page of an unknown bilingual book showing photos of the “railhead at Torghandi” and the construction of a “Torghundi-Kandahar concrete highway”. Someone has added “1960” to the electronic image; presumably the date of the book.
The railway across the Afghan border from the USSR (now Turkmenistan) might have been built as part of the USSR – Herat – Kandahar road project.
Anyone know the name of the book?
Chinese transit goods arrive at Hairatan
The 1st shipment of Chinese commercial-transit goods arrives at Hairatan port
The 1st shipment of Chinese commercial and transit goods arrived at the commercial port of Hairatan on Sunday.
This shipment includes 51 containers of commercial-transit goods of the People’s Republic of China, which entered the country through the railway for the 1st time in the solar year.
The cargo was loaded from the Chinese city of Urumqi and the Afghan Cargo Company transited the shipment to Hairatan port.
Officials at the port say, the shipment includes electrical appliances, medicine and cosmetics, various types of clothes, toys, and other commercial goods, and the transfer of commercial goods from Hairatan port indicates an improvement in the country’s ports.
Afghanistan shares a 137-kilometer border with the Republic of Uzbekistan, where most of Afghanistan’s trade goods enter the country through the port of Hairatan. Hairatan port is one of the connecting points of the country with Central Asia.
Source: Ministry of Industry and Commerce, 15 July 2021
Consultancy services for detailed survey and design or Torghondi – Herat railway
Project Description: Consultancy services for detail survery and detail design for Torghondy Herat Railway project (THR) length (113 Km)
More👇https://t.co/KDq9MYx0iS#Bidding_Opportunity #NPA_Afghanistan pic.twitter.com/KqrqxHbRZd
— National Procurement Authority-Afghanistan (@npa_aop) May 16, 2021
Uzbekistan – Afghanistan railway during Covid-19 video
Uzbekistan – Afghanistan railway link . pic.twitter.com/5L4u7wRjKQ
— Shahryar Khan Niazi (@shahryarniazi) April 29, 2021
View from the trans-Amu Darya railroad
View from the trans-Amu-Darya railroad: The friendship between the peoples of the USSR and Afghanistan is indestructible pic.twitter.com/fdiVJJbNrG
— Peter Leonard (@Peter__Leonard) March 6, 2021
Darulaman railway coach
A photo of unknown date and origin showing a person stood by a train on the Kabul to Darulaman narrow gauge railway.
Kabul – Darulaman railway locomotive photo
Another photograph of one of the Henschel steam locomotives on the Kabul – Darulaman railway has been found, in the book “Джанг: Восстание в Афганистане” (War: Uprising in Afghanistan) by journalist Евгений Шуан (Yevgeniy Shuan) which was published in Leningrad in 1930.
AFGHANISTAN’S ONLY STEAM TRAIN (RUNS BETWEEN KABUL AND DAR-UL-AMAN).
The picture was spotted by Markus Hauser, who alerted me to it. His full thread is worth a read, with a lot of interesting pictures of 1920s Afghanistan from the book.
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Евгений Шуан
Джанг: Восстание в Афганистане
[Ленинград]: Прибой, 1930. – 246, [2] с.: ил., портр.-> Another rare and interesting account of Afghanistan by the only European journalist in Afghanistan in 1929.
(Джанг = War) pic.twitter.com/QQzDivkJLP
— Markus Hauser (@hausibek) February 11, 2021
Karkar coal mine photo
The BBC’s Middle East correspondent tweets a picture of the coal mine at Karkar, with the narrow gauge railway just visible; ignore the text about the “soviet field gun artillery piece gun” in the tweet, that is part of joke thread about the media calling any armoured vehicle a tank.
All out of tanks, so here’s a soviet field gun artillery piece gun I captured singlehandedly with @MooseCampbell pic.twitter.com/dJgVDIHUCR
— Quentin Sommerville (@sommervilletv) February 6, 2021
Exactly! pic.twitter.com/DE1CrbU2LG
— Quentin Sommerville (@sommervilletv) February 6, 2021
Iran ‘ready to connect Khaf – Herat railway to Mazar-i-Sharif’
Tehran, Jan 19, IRNA – Iranian Minister of Road and Urban Development Mohammad Eslami referred to sustainable development as Iran’s strategy in the region, saying Iran is ready to connect Khaf-Herat railway to Mazar-i-Sharif in Afghanistan.
Speaking at the inauguration ceremony of training Afghanistan railway staff, Eslami said Iran’s development is intertwined with that of its neighbors.
Source: Minister: Iran ready to build Herat- Mazar-i-Sharif railway, Islamic Republic News Agency, 19 January 2021