{"id":3687,"date":"2011-10-23T19:00:30","date_gmt":"2011-10-23T19:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/?p=3687"},"modified":"2011-10-23T19:00:30","modified_gmt":"2011-10-23T19:00:30","slug":"king-amanullahs-1920s-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/king-amanullahs-1920s-train\/","title":{"rendered":"King Amanullah&#8217;s 1920&#8217;s Train"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/16352515@N00\/4083342094\/\" title=\"King Amanullah's 1920's Train by turnip!, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2723\/4083342094_41e4ab7685.jpg\" width=\"350\" alt=\"King Amanullah's 1920's Train\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><q>Amanullah sought German companies and engineers into the country to build roads, bridges, dams and royal palace in Darulaman, a suburb of Kabul. The locomtives were transported by ship to Mumbai and then pulled by elephant in passes through the Hindu Kush, where a couple of hundred metres of rail were laid. After 20+ years of civil war turmoil and the destruction of Kabul, they&#8217;re overgrown by thistles and thorn bushes are three rusty steam engines and the carriage labelled &#8220;Made in Germany&#8221;<\/q><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Flickr photo by Tanya Murphy (username &#8220;turnip!&#8221;, &copy;  All Rights Reserved), taken on 2 November 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amanullah sought German companies and engineers into the country to build roads, bridges, dams and royal palace in Darulaman, a suburb of Kabul. The locomtives were transported by ship to Mumbai and then pulled by elephant in passes through the Hindu Kush, where a couple of hundred metres of rail were laid. After 20+ years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[52,136,163],"class_list":["post-3687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistans-railways","category-photographs","tag-darulaman","tag-photos","tag-steam-loco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3687","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=3687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}