{"id":3351,"date":"2011-01-02T19:00:59","date_gmt":"2011-01-02T19:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/?p=3351"},"modified":"2011-01-02T19:00:59","modified_gmt":"2011-01-02T19:00:59","slug":"lenz-railway-study-in-1928-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/lenz-railway-study-in-1928-29\/","title":{"rendered":"Lenz railway study in 1928-29"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Stichting Samenwerking Afghanistan – Nederland<\/cite> website has some information about the 1920s plan for a rail network<\/a> in Afghanistan. <\/p>\n

Here is an attempt at translating the relevant bit, via Google Translate with some hand-editing.<\/p>\n

King Amanullah gave German architects permission to build the new royal palaces, a number of factories and a small railway in Kabul. Later in 1928 the king asked a German railway commission headed by Berlin company Allgemeine Baugesellschaft Lenz & Co to lay a railway between Kabul, British India, Iran and the Soviet Union. This company sent Dutch engineer Adrianus van Lutsenburg Maas to Afghanistan in 1928 for construction of the railway. <\/p>\n

Adrianus van Lutsenburg Maas worked in Afghanistan between 1928-29 as an engineer with the German company. The project failed owing to a nationwide revolt, and van Lutsenburg left Afghanistan in 1929. While in Afghanistan he kept diaries, wrote letters and took photographs of everything.<\/p>\n

Source: Geschiedenis<\/a>, Stichting Samenwerking Afghanistan – Nederland<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The article (in Dutch) also has some modern photos of the locomotives at the museum in Kabul.<\/p>\n

Presumably this listing at The Genealogy Page of Jorge Heredia and Heleen Sittig<\/a> at Rootsweb is the man in question: Engineer, born 20 Dec 1893, Dantumadeel, died 10 Apr 1979, Den Haag. His material appears to be in the Netherlands’ Nationaal Archief<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Stichting Samenwerking Afghanistan – Nederland website has some information about the 1920s plan for a rail network in Afghanistan. Here is an attempt at translating the relevant bit, via Google Translate with some hand-editing. King Amanullah gave German architects permission to build the new royal palaces, a number of factories and a small railway […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,5,10],"tags":[106],"class_list":["post-3351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistans-railways","category-links","category-history","category-projects","tag-lenz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3351","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=3351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}