{"id":2430,"date":"2010-03-29T21:25:28","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T21:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/?p=2430"},"modified":"2012-09-10T13:27:31","modified_gmt":"2012-09-10T12:27:31","slug":"pakistan-railways-steam-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/pakistan-railways-steam-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan Railways steam photos"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The April 2010 issue of British Railways Illustrated<\/a><\/cite> magazine has an article with lots of photographs of the Khyber Pass line taken by Gavin Morrison in the 1970s. There is a companion article about Pakistani narrow gauge in the April 2010 Railway Bylines<\/a><\/cite>, with basically the same text but different pictures. <\/p>\n

The text isn’t especially detailed, being a brief description of the visit, rather than a history of the lines, but there are some very<\/em> nice pictures of steam engines in action in spectacular scenery.<\/p>\n

Sadly the Khyber Pass line is now out of action, with sections having been washed away<\/a> and revival seemingly a distant prospect – unless the Chinese decide to rebuild and extend it to serve their Afghan copper mining concession at Aynak. <\/p>\n

The 2’6″ gauge railway from Bostan to Zhob (Fort Sandeman)<\/a> has closed. The track was lifted by the authorities to prevent (further) theft, although the government has announced plans<\/a> to rebuild it as a 1676 mm gauge line and construct a 150 km extension to Dera Ismail Khan, cutting 400 km from the distance by rail between Quetta and Peshawar. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The April 2010 issue of British Railways Illustrated magazine has an article with lots of photographs of the Khyber Pass line taken by Gavin Morrison in the 1970s. There is a companion article about Pakistani narrow gauge in the April 2010 Railway Bylines, with basically the same text but different pictures. The text isn’t especially […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[29,97,134,143,163],"class_list":["post-2430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistans-railways","category-photographs","tag-british-railways-illustrated","tag-khyber-pass","tag-pakistan","tag-railway-bylines","tag-steam-loco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430","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=2430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5182,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430\/revisions\/5182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}