{"id":3995,"date":"2011-07-17T19:00:35","date_gmt":"2011-07-17T19:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/?p=3995"},"modified":"2011-07-17T19:00:35","modified_gmt":"2011-07-17T19:00:35","slug":"chaman-in-1896","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/chaman-in-1896\/","title":{"rendered":"Chaman in 1896"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Royal Geographical Society Picture Library has a photograph showing <a href=\"http:\/\/images.rgs.org\/imageDetails.aspx?barcode=36930\">Railway &#038; telegraph plant for Kandahar \/ Defence tower &#038; barracks for troops \/ Railway terminus at Charman<\/a>, taken by AC Yate in 1896. <\/p>\n<p>The preview is a bit too small to see very much, but it might show the railway stores which were allegedly in place ready for <a href=\"\/afghanistan\/railways\/the-great-game\/\">rapid construction of a line across the border<\/a> from British India to Kandahar in the event that Imperial Russia made a move on Herat.<\/p>\n<p>There is also a view of the <a href=\"http:\/\/images.rgs.org\/imageDetails.aspx?barcode=7356\">Railway station at Chaman: tug of war &#8211; Pathan v Punjabi Mohammedan (2nd) Baluchis in Pakistan<\/a>, also by AC Yate and dated 1896-97.<\/p>\n<p>Presumably the photographer is the Captain AC Yate who wrote <cite>The Transcaspian Railway and the Power of the Russians to Occupy Herat<\/cite> in 1891, <a href=\"\/afghanistan\/railways\/the-great-game\/\">arguing for building a railway to Sistan<\/a> (the Afghanistan\/Iran\/Pakistan border area), rather than Kandahar: <q>The press and the public are at this moment advocating the extension of our railways to Kandahar; but that this could be done without precipitating a rupture of our relations with the Amir is doubtful<\/q>.  <\/p>\n<p>The RGS has various other interesting photos &#8211; a search for <code>railway<\/code> brings up shots of colonial (and other) lines, and there are views of the Bolan Pass line. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Royal Geographical Society Picture Library has a photograph showing Railway &#038; telegraph plant for Kandahar \/ Defence tower &#038; barracks for troops \/ Railway terminus at Charman, taken by AC Yate in 1896. The preview is a bit too small to see very much, but it might show the railway stores which were allegedly [&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],"tags":[38,73,92,147],"class_list":["post-3995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistans-railways","category-links","category-photographs","tag-chaman","tag-great-game","tag-kandahar","tag-rgs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3995","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=3995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}