{"id":3111,"date":"2010-09-28T21:23:47","date_gmt":"2010-09-28T21:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/?p=3111"},"modified":"2012-09-10T13:23:08","modified_gmt":"2012-09-10T12:23:08","slug":"turkmen-train-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/turkmen-train-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkmen train times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\/afghanistan\/railways\/the-great-game\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/rail\/af-map-merv-kushka-railway-1909-thin.jpg\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"1909 map of Merv to Kushka railway\" title=\"1909 Imperial Gazetteer of India map showing the Russia railway from Merv (Mary) to Kushka (Serhetabat) close the Afghan border (Digital South Asia Library).\" height=\"250\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It seems that Turkmenistan&#8217;s national railway Turkmendemiryollari doesn&#8217;t have a website, and it is not easy to find information about its train services.<\/p>\n<p>However Samuel Rachdi has done a lot of research, and as a result <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fahrplancenter.com\/TurkmenRailIndex.html\">Turkmendemiryollari timetables<\/a> can be found at his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fahrplancenter.com\">fahrplancenter.com<\/a> website. <\/p>\n<p>This includes a timetable for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fahrplancenter.com\/TurkmenRailSouth.html\">daily return passenger train<\/a> on the line <a href=\"\/afghanistan\/railways\/the-great-game\/\">built by imperial Russia<\/a> from Mary to <a href=\"\/afghanistan\/tag\/serhetabat\/\">Serhetabat<\/a> (Kushka), close to the Afghan border. <\/p>\n<p>From Serhetabat the railway continues across the border to the freight terminal at <a href=\"\/afghanistan\/tag\/towraghondi\/\">Towraghondi<\/a> in Afghanistan, but (as far as I know) this section carries only goods traffic. &#8220;Two kilometers of the 7-kilometer link lies in the territory of Afghanistan&#8221;, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mfa.gov.af\/rrcn-turk-afg-agree.asp\" title=\"Turkmenistan, Afghanistan Agree on Extensive Cooperation 6 July 2007\">Afghan Ministry of Foreign Affairs<\/a>.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[158,179,191],"class_list":["post-3111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-serhetabat","tag-timetables","tag-turkmenistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3111","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=3111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5174,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3111\/revisions\/5174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}