{"id":2651,"date":"2010-10-03T19:00:22","date_gmt":"2010-10-03T19:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/?p=2651"},"modified":"2014-12-14T21:07:51","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T21:07:51","slug":"narrow-gauge-railways-in-tajikistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/narrow-gauge-railways-in-tajikistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Narrow gauge railways in Tajikistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/infojd.ru\/26\/kurgantube.html\">Narrow gauge railway Dushanbe &#8211; Kurgan-Tube &#8211; Kulyab, Nizhniy Panj<\/a>&#8221; &#8211; in Russian, but Google Translate works pretty well.<\/p>\n<p><q>The 750 mm gauge railway network in the southwest of Tajikistan was started in 1929. Originally there were two unrelated lines: Kurgan-Tube &#8211; Nizhniy Panj&#8230;<\/q> <\/p>\n<p>Nizhniy Panj is on north side of the river which forms the border with Afghanistan. The railway closed in the 1990s, but there is some talk of building a new line in the area with a bridge to Afghanistan and onward connections to Kunduz, Mazar-i-Sharif and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>There is also a link to a general <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eav.ru\/publ1.php?publid=2007-06a10\">history of railways in Tajikistan<\/a> (in Russian).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Narrow gauge railway Dushanbe &#8211; Kurgan-Tube &#8211; Kulyab, Nizhniy Panj&#8221; &#8211; in Russian, but Google Translate works pretty well. The 750 mm gauge railway network in the southwest of Tajikistan was started in 1929. Originally there were two unrelated lines: Kurgan-Tube &#8211; Nizhniy Panj&#8230; Nizhniy Panj is on north side of the river which forms [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,6,9],"tags":[123,165],"class_list":["post-2651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","category-history","category-maps","category-photographs","tag-narrow-gauge","tag-tajikistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2651","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=2651"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6068,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2651\/revisions\/6068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}