{"id":2833,"date":"2010-06-29T22:00:36","date_gmt":"2010-06-29T22:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/?p=2833"},"modified":"2010-06-29T22:00:36","modified_gmt":"2010-06-29T22:00:36","slug":"the-coal-wagon-rattles-along","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/the-coal-wagon-rattles-along\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The coal wagon rattles along&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been gathering some notes on coal mines in Afghanistan &#8211; I think there is something quite exciting to report soon &#8211; and then all of a sudden the BBC has this: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/south_asia\/10413183.stm\">Inside a crumbling Afghan coal mine<\/a> by Quentin Sommerville, BBC News, Pul-e Khumri, northern Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Complete with pictures of the hand-worked narrow gauge railway.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/middle_east\/10417358.stm\">Video of the railway in action<\/a>. Keep going to the end for the tippler in action (and an abandoned tank).<\/p>\n<p><i>More soon&#8230;!<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been gathering some notes on coal mines in Afghanistan &#8211; I think there is something quite exciting to report soon &#8211; and then all of a sudden the BBC has this: Inside a crumbling Afghan coal mine by Quentin Sommerville, BBC News, Pul-e Khumri, northern Afghanistan. Complete with pictures of the hand-worked narrow gauge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[23,43,84],"class_list":["post-2833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistans-railways","category-links","tag-bbc","tag-coal-mine","tag-industrial-railway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2833","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=2833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}