{"id":2205,"date":"2010-03-07T19:00:10","date_gmt":"2010-03-07T19:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/?p=2205"},"modified":"2012-09-08T22:01:54","modified_gmt":"2012-09-08T21:01:54","slug":"kabul-railway-coach-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/kabul-railway-coach-photo\/","title":{"rendered":"Kabul railway coach photo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/hosted\/life\/l?imgurl=513bd2075bba0692&#038;q=afghan%20%20%20source:life&#038;prev=\/images%3Fq%3Dafghan%2B%2B%2Bsource:life%26start%3D36%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26ndsp%3D18%26tbs%3Disch:1\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/rail\/af-kabul-coach-1938-life.jpg\" title=\"Deserted Afghan railway car after failure to begin rail system, Photo copyright Life\" alt=\"Abandoned railway coach in Kabul\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Google&#8217;s archive of photos from <cite>Life<\/cite> has this one (above) captioned <a href=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/hosted\/life\/l?imgurl=513bd2075bba0692&#038;q=afghan%20%20%20source:life&#038;prev=\/images%3Fq%3Dafghan%2B%2B%2Bsource:life%26start%3D36%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26ndsp%3D18%26tbs%3Disch:1\">&#8220;Deserted Afghan railway car after failure to begin rail system&#8221;<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>\nDated 1938 in the caption, the picture shows an overgrown bogie coach from the <a href=\"\/afghanistan\/railways\/kabul-to-darulaman-railway\/\">short-lived narrow gauge railway<\/a> which ran for 7 km between Kabul and Darulaman.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe number painted at each end is &#8220;2&#8221; &#8211; a vehicle number, or a class number? The coach is noticeably longer than one in labeled &#8220;1&#8221; in this picture below, which was taken by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darulaman.de\/\" title=\"Wilhelm Riecks Reise nach Afghanistan zum Bau des Darulaman-Palast\">Wilhelm Rieck<\/a> in 1923 and is said to show the first train, so perhaps it is a class number, with the bigger coach being second class.  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/rail\/af-first-train.jpg\" title=\"First train on the Kabul to Darulaman railway\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <cite>Life<\/cite> photo shows another coach at the back, apparently a lighter colour, which is presumably the first class car. But is there a third vehicle as well, in front of that one?<\/p>\n<p>This picture below appeared in the February 1930 issue of the German magazine <cite>UHU<\/cite>, and shows two coaches plus some wagons. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/images\/rail\/af-train-uhu-web.jpg\"><img src='\/images\/rail\/af-train-uhu-web.jpg' title='Train at Darulaman' alt='Train at Darulaman' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Amazingly, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/railways\/kabul-to-darulaman-railway\/\">locomotives have survived<\/a>, though only the underframes of the coaches remain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google&#8217;s archive of photos from Life has this one (above) captioned &#8220;Deserted Afghan railway car after failure to begin rail system&#8221;. Dated 1938 in the caption, the picture shows an overgrown bogie coach from the short-lived narrow gauge railway which ran for 7 km between Kabul and Darulaman. The number painted at each end is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[52,90,107,136],"class_list":["post-2205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistans-railways","category-photographs","tag-darulaman","tag-kabul","tag-life","tag-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205","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=2205"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5151,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205\/revisions\/5151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}