{"id":2995,"date":"2010-08-16T18:12:33","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T18:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/?p=2995"},"modified":"2012-09-10T17:49:56","modified_gmt":"2012-09-10T16:49:56","slug":"eco-train-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/eco-train-returns\/","title":{"rendered":"ECO train returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/rail\/tr-eco-train-201008-tcdd.jpg\" title=\"Eastbound ECO train in Turkey (Photo: TCDD)\" class=\"alignright\"><\/p>\n<p>The Istanbul &#8211; Tehran &#8211; Islamabad eastbound <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railwaygazette.com\/news\/single-view\/view\/10\/trans-asian-eco-train-returns-to-islamabad.html\" title=\"Trans-Asian ECO train returns to Islamabad - Railway Gazette International\">return working<\/a> of last year&#8217;s <a href=\"\/afghanistan\/1834\/pakistan-iran-turkey-container-train\/\" title=\"Pakistan - Iran - Turkey container train\">westbound Economic Cooperation Organization train<\/a> left <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcdd.gov.tr\/home\/detail\/?id=886\" title=\"T\u00fcrkiye-Pakistan Konteyner Treni Ankara\u2019dan Yola \u00c7\u0131kt\u0131\">Istanbul on August 2<\/a>, running via Iran&#8217;s <a href=\"\/afghanistan\/1721\/gap-in-britain-to-india-rail-route-closed\/\" title=\"Gap in Britain to India rail route closed?\">Bam &#8211; Zahedan line<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The eastbound train of vans and container wagons &#8211; seen here in Turkey &#8211; was due to arrive in Islamabad on August 13, a faster transit time than last year&#8217;s train. <\/p>\n<p>Does anyone know if it successfully made it to Iran and Pakistan?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Istanbul &#8211; Tehran &#8211; Islamabad eastbound return working of last year&#8217;s westbound Economic Cooperation Organization train left Istanbul on August 2, running via Iran&#8217;s Bam &#8211; Zahedan line. The eastbound train of vans and container wagons &#8211; seen here in Turkey &#8211; was due to arrive in Islamabad on August 13, a faster transit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[57,85,134,190],"class_list":["post-2995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous-stuff","tag-eco","tag-iran","tag-pakistan","tag-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2995","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=2995"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5206,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2995\/revisions\/5206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}