{"id":3259,"date":"2010-11-14T19:00:11","date_gmt":"2010-11-14T19:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/?p=3259"},"modified":"2010-11-14T19:00:11","modified_gmt":"2010-11-14T19:00:11","slug":"hayratan-photos-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/hayratan-photos-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos of Hayratan and its railway facilities"},"content":{"rendered":"

A good set of photos in, around and above Hayratan, taken by “Robert” in July 2010 during his Afghanistan Deployment<\/a>. I have selected some of the railway shots, but the whole album is worth a look. <\/p>\n

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  • Here’s a shot of the new railroad.<\/a><\/li>\n
  • I was excited to see this train hauling track parts south<\/a>\n
  • Cargo being moved by rail in Afghanistan! A big first for this country.<\/a><\/li>\n
  • The Friendship bridge which crosses the Amu Darya into Uzbekistan. It’s used for both rail and road traffic (although not at the same time).<\/a><\/li>\n
  • The Hairatan border crossing is a major fuel transfer point for Afghanistan.<\/a><\/li>\n
  • one of the cargo yards <\/a><\/li>\n
  • A train that has just rolled in to Afghanistan. So nice to see commercial trade taking place in this country.<\/a><\/li>\n
  • Rail car being unloaded at the Hairatan crossing.<\/a><\/li>\n
  • Another shot of the railroad. The Afghans have made tremendous progress on it.<\/a><\/li>\n
  • (photo of a yellow machine)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    A good set of photos in, around and above Hayratan, taken by “Robert” in July 2010 during his Afghanistan Deployment. I have selected some of the railway shots, but the whole album is worth a look. Here’s a shot of the new railroad. I was excited to see this train hauling track parts south Cargo […]<\/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],"tags":[79,136],"class_list":["post-3259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistans-railways","category-links","category-photographs","tag-hayratan","tag-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3259","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=3259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}