{"id":188,"date":"2008-03-06T21:26:58","date_gmt":"2008-03-06T21:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ccgi.ajg41.plus.com\/2008\/03\/06\/king-of-afghanistans-visit-to-swindon-works\/"},"modified":"2012-09-08T21:47:15","modified_gmt":"2012-09-08T20:47:15","slug":"king-of-afghanistans-visit-to-swindon-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/king-of-afghanistans-visit-to-swindon-works\/","title":{"rendered":"King of Afghanistan’s visit to Swindon works"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Railway Magazine<\/cite> of May 1928 (p410) has photo of the “Time-table of Royal Train in English and Persian” for the King of Afghanistan’s visit to Swindon works, G.W.R. On March 21.<\/strong><\/p>\n

railway_magazine_may_1928.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY
\nTIMETABLE
\nfor
\nThe Journey of Their Majesties the
\nKing and Queen of Afghanistan
\nFrom Paddington to Swindon
\nOn Wednesday, March 21st, 1928.<\/i><\/p>\n

More details<\/a> of King Amanullah’s tour of Europe, with some wonderfully fawning quotes from Railway Gazette<\/cite>. On his peregrinations he also visited Berlin<\/a> in March 1928, where he went for short ride on – and was allegedly invited to drive – one if the then-new A2 small-profile U-bahn trains<\/a>, leading to the type becoming known as the “Amanullah-Wagen”.<\/p>\n

The March 2008 issue of Majesty<\/cite><\/a> magazine has an article: Roaring Twenties: A compelling account of the King and Queen of Afghanistan’s state visit to Britain, by Russell Harris<\/q>. When I get chance to pop into one of WH Smith’s public reading rooms I’ll see if there is any railway content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Railway Magazine of May 1928 (p410) has photo of the “Time-table of Royal Train in English and Persian” for the King of Afghanistan’s visit to Swindon works, G.W.R. On March 21. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY TIMETABLE for The Journey of Their Majesties the King and Queen of Afghanistan From Paddington to Swindon On Wednesday, March […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[15,75,164,174],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistans-railways","category-history","tag-amanullah","tag-gwr","tag-swindon","tag-the-railway-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","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=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5143,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions\/5143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}