{"id":222,"date":"2008-04-20T19:00:22","date_gmt":"2008-04-20T19:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ccgi.ajg41.plus.com\/?p=222"},"modified":"2012-09-08T22:16:52","modified_gmt":"2012-09-08T21:16:52","slug":"chaman-spin-bodak-proposals-in-the-1960s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/chaman-spin-bodak-proposals-in-the-1960s\/","title":{"rendered":"Chaman &#8211; Spin Boldak railway plans in the 1960s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some old articles from <cite>Railway Gazette<\/cite> regarding a unrealised 1960s scheme for a rail link from the Pakistan Railways railhead at Chaman to Spin Boldak, a short distance across the border in Afghanistan.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSpin Boldak is a major border crossing point, and it seems that railway extension plans have been talked about every so often.<\/p>\n<p>20 May 1966<br \/>Talks between Afghanistan and Pakistan were held on May 4 1966 regarding building a railway to Spin Baldak. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/rail\/railwaygazette20may1966p383-cropped.jpg\" alt=Short news article from Railway Gazette\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>2 September 1966<br \/> Construction to Spin Baldak &#8220;is to begin soon&#8221;.<br \/>\n <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/rail\/railwaygazette2september1966.jpg\" alt=Short news article from Railway Gazette\" \/><\/p>\n<p>17 May 1968<br \/> Bad news: the Spinbaldak scheme, which was to have been financed by the US Agency for International Development, has been abandoned.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/rail\/railwaygazette17may1968p363.jpg\" alt=Short news article from Railway Gazette\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(clippings &copy; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railwaygazette.com\"><cite>Railway Gazette International<\/cite><\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some old articles from Railway Gazette regarding a unrealised 1960s scheme for a rail link from the Pakistan Railways railhead at Chaman to Spin Boldak, a short distance across the border in Afghanistan. Spin Boldak is a major border crossing point, and it seems that railway extension plans have been talked about every so often. [&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":[134,144,161],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistans-railways","tag-pakistan","tag-railway-gazette-international","tag-spin-boldak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","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=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5169,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions\/5169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}