{"id":149,"date":"2007-07-11T20:30:56","date_gmt":"2007-07-11T20:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ccgi.ajg41.plus.com\/2007\/07\/11\/golra-sharif-railway-museum\/"},"modified":"2007-07-11T20:30:56","modified_gmt":"2007-07-11T20:30:56","slug":"golra-sharif-railway-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/golra-sharif-railway-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Golra Sharif Railway Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2003 Pakistan&#8217;s <cite>Dawb<\/cite> newspaper published <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dawn.com\/weekly\/dmag\/archive\/031026\/dmag7.htm\">A journey into the past<\/a> by Amer Sial, describing the Pakistan Railways heritage museum at Golra Sharif near Islamabad (there is a similar <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pakistan.gov.pk\/ministries\/ContentInfo.jsp?MinID=11&#038;cPath=326_345&#038;ContentID=5436\">document here<\/a>). The article says <q>A few historic pictures hanging on the outside walls of the platform included one of <strong>Afghan King Amir Abdur Rehman at the Rawalpindi Railway Station<\/strong> in 1886. Another one shows the passing of a steam train through the Khyber Pass in the late nineteenth century.<\/q> <\/p>\n<p>While I haven&#8217;t been to check(!), it seems unlikely there is a C19th photo of a train through the Khyber Pass, as the metre-gauge <a href=\"\/afghanistan\/railways\/kabul-river-and-khyber-pass\/\">railway along the Kabul River<\/a> was extant c.1905-1909, and the more famous broad-gauge Khyber Pass railway opened on 3 November 1925.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never seen any pictures of the short-lived metre-gauge line &#8211; if anyone has one, or knows where I might find one, please let me know.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pakrail.com\/her4.asp\" title=\"Official site\">Pakistan Railways&#8217; museum webpage<\/a><\/li>\n<li> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.mud.yahoo.com\/photos\/tango48\/sets\/72157594555887005\/\">some photos<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2003 Pakistan&#8217;s Dawb newspaper published A journey into the past by Amer Sial, describing the Pakistan Railways heritage museum at Golra Sharif near Islamabad (there is a similar document here). The article says A few historic pictures hanging on the outside walls of the platform included one of Afghan King Amir Abdur Rehman at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[121,134],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistans-railways","tag-museum","tag-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}