{"id":3233,"date":"2010-10-30T19:00:43","date_gmt":"2010-10-30T19:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/?p=3233"},"modified":"2010-10-30T19:00:43","modified_gmt":"2010-10-30T19:00:43","slug":"coal-mining-loco-identification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/coal-mining-loco-identification\/","title":{"rendered":"Coal mining loco identification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is some discussion of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/industrial-railways-coal\/\">coal mine railways<\/a> on the <a href=\"http:\/\/feldbahn.forumieren.com\/geschichte-und-exkursionen-aus-aller-welt-f23\/afghanistan-kohlenminen-t4552.htm\">Feldbahnforum<\/a> website; see the <q>Afghanistan Kohlenminen<\/q> thread from 20 Okt 2010, 14:29 (you may need to register, and it is <i title=\"in German\">auf Deutsch<\/i>).<\/p>\n<p>The locomotive in this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/51959377\/AFP?language=en-GB&#038;location=GBR\">photograph<\/a> is identified as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mpz.cz\/?q=node\/56\">BND15<\/a>. The hopper wagons at the mine are apparently the Czechoslovakian JDV (&#8220;unified mining car&#8221; design), manufactured by  Zelez\u00e1rny V\u00edtkovic\u00e9 (V\u00edtkovice iron works).<\/p>\n<p>If I have understood the thread correctly, some BND15 locomotives and also one BND30 were supplied to Afghanistan. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is some discussion of the coal mine railways on the Feldbahnforum website; see the Afghanistan Kohlenminen thread from 20 Okt 2010, 14:29 (you may need to register, and it is auf Deutsch). The locomotive in this photograph is identified as a BND15. The hopper wagons at the mine are apparently the Czechoslovakian JDV (&#8220;unified [&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":[43,84],"class_list":["post-3233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistans-railways","category-links","tag-coal-mine","tag-industrial-railway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3233","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=3233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}