{"id":1474,"date":"2009-04-03T22:49:12","date_gmt":"2009-04-03T22:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/?page_id=1474"},"modified":"2020-12-10T00:15:55","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T00:15:55","slug":"soviet-rail-extensions-across-the-border","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/railways\/soviet-rail-extensions-across-the-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Soviet railway extensions in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Previous page: <a href=\"\/afghanistan\/railways\/iran-to-herat\/\">Iran to Herat railway plans<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/afghanistan\/railways\/hairatan-and-the-friendship-bridge\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/rail\/termezbridgedec18.jpg\" alt=\"Friendship Bridge\" title=\"Uzbekistan-Afghanistan Friendship Bridge, 18 December 2001. (US Air Force photo by Staff Sgt Cecilio Ricardo)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:smaller;\">Uzbekistan-Afghanistan Friendship Bridge, 18 December 2001 (Photo: Cecilio Ricardo\/US Air Force).<\/p>\n<p>The USSR extended two 1 520 mm gauge railway lines short distances across the Soviet border into Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A short extension from what is now <a href=\"\/afghanistan\/railways\/torghundi-and-the-railway-from-turkmenistan\/\">Turkmenistan to Towraghondi in Afghanistan<\/a>.\n<li>A line crossing the border from what is now <a href=\"\/afghanistan\/railways\/hairatan-and-the-friendship-bridge\/\">Uzbekistan over the Friendship Bridge into Afghanistan<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"\/afghanistan\/railways\/torghundi-and-the-railway-from-turkmenistan\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/rail\/af-towraghondi-rail-port.jpg\" alt=\"Turkmen Railways locomotive at Towraghondi\" title=\"Rail Port in Turghundai Border with Turkmenistan (Photo: Afghanistan Customs Department)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:smaller;\">Turkmen Railways locomotive at Towraghondi (Photo: Afghanistan Customs Department)<\/p>\n<p><em>Next page: <a href=\"\/afghanistan\/railways\/torghundi-and-the-railway-from-turkmenistan\/\">Torghundi and the railway from Turkmenistan<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previous page: Iran to Herat railway plans Uzbekistan-Afghanistan Friendship Bridge, 18 December 2001 (Photo: Cecilio Ricardo\/US Air Force). The USSR extended two 1 520 mm gauge railway lines short distances across the Soviet border into Afghanistan. A short extension from what is now Turkmenistan to Towraghondi in Afghanistan. A line crossing the border from what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":1491,"menu_order":70,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1474","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1474"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7489,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1474\/revisions\/7489"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}