{"id":3164,"date":"2010-10-15T19:00:25","date_gmt":"2010-10-15T19:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/?p=3164"},"modified":"2010-10-15T19:00:25","modified_gmt":"2010-10-15T19:00:25","slug":"video-of-hayratan-to-mazar-i-sharif-construction-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/video-of-hayratan-to-mazar-i-sharif-construction-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Video of Hayratan to Mazar-i-Sharif construction works"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><q>From the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e Sharif to the Uzbek border, the land runs flat with barely a hillock to block the way. It is perfect terrain for building a railway<\/q><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rferl.org\/content\/Afghanistans_First_New_Railroad_On_Track\/2190489.html\">Afghanistan&#8217;s First New Railroad On Track<\/a>, an 14 October 2010 by Charles Recknagel at Radio Free Europe\/Radio Liberty.<\/p>\n<p>There are details of construction and security on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/railways\/hairatan-to-mazar-i-sharif\/\">new line from the Uzbek border to near Mazar-i-Sharif<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><q>Currently, the railroad is guarded by a force of 500 police. The headquarters of the force is a small, windswept outpost halfway between Mazar-e Sharif and the Afghan border crossing of Hairaton, where the new rail line starts.<\/q>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There is also a video showing construction work. This feature a twin-unit locomotive (a 2TE10?) in action at 55 sec, and then a smaller blue locomotive, both presumably belonging to Uzbek state railway UTY. <\/p>\n<p><object><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.rferl.org\/flash\/MediaPlayer.swf?cache=\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"450\" height=\"313\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" flashvars=\"configFilePath=http:\/\/www.rferl.org\/GetFlashXml.aspx?param=11538|user|video%26skin=embeded\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e Sharif to the Uzbek border, the land runs flat with barely a hillock to block the way. It is perfect terrain for building a railway says Afghanistan&#8217;s First New Railroad On Track, an 14 October 2010 by Charles Recknagel at Radio Free Europe\/Radio Liberty. There are details of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,9,10],"tags":[79,114,141],"class_list":["post-3164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistans-railways","category-links","category-photographs","category-projects","tag-hayratan","tag-mazar-i-sharif","tag-radio-free-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3164","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=3164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}