{"id":2104,"date":"2009-12-06T19:00:16","date_gmt":"2009-12-06T19:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/?p=2104"},"modified":"2013-08-26T17:30:14","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T16:30:14","slug":"maps-of-railways-to-the-borders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/maps-of-railways-to-the-borders\/","title":{"rendered":"Maps of railways to the borders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amongst a collection of <a href=\"http:\/\/homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com\/~poyntz\/India\/maps.html\">Historical Maps of India <\/a> is <a href=\"http:\/\/homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com\/~poyntz\/India\/images\/AfghanFrontier.JPG\"><i>Plate 24 Sect. III: Afghan Frontier, SE Afghanistan and west Punjab<\/i><\/a> from the 1893 edition of Constable&#8217;s Hand Atlas of India, showing the never-built Chaman &#8211; Kandahar railway.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/rail\/af-map-kandahar-constable1893.jpg\" alt=\"Chaman to Kandahar railway on the 1893 edition of Constable's Hand Atlas of India\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Digital South Asia Library has a high resolution scan of the 1909 <a href=\"http:\/\/dsal.uchicago.edu\/reference\/gaz_atlas_1909\/\">Imperial Gazetteer of India<\/a> map of Afghanistan showing the Russia railway from Merv (Mary) to Kushka (Serhetabat) close the Afghan border.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/rail\/af-map-merv-kushka-railway-1909.jpg\" alt=\"Imperial Gazetteer of India 1909 map of Afghanistan \" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amongst a collection of Historical Maps of India is Plate 24 Sect. III: Afghan Frontier, SE Afghanistan and west Punjab from the 1893 edition of Constable&#8217;s Hand Atlas of India, showing the never-built Chaman &#8211; Kandahar railway. The Digital South Asia Library has a high resolution scan of the 1909 Imperial Gazetteer of India map [&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":[38,92,100,112,116,158],"class_list":["post-2104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistans-railways","tag-chaman","tag-kandahar","tag-kushka","tag-map","tag-merv","tag-serhetabat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104","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=2104"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5470,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104\/revisions\/5470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}