{"id":4163,"date":"2011-08-01T19:00:30","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T19:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/?p=4163"},"modified":"2011-08-01T19:00:30","modified_gmt":"2011-08-01T19:00:30","slug":"railway-opening-delayed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/railway-opening-delayed\/","title":{"rendered":"Railway opening delayed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Opening of the Hayratan to Mazar-i-Sharif line had been planned for July, but has been delayed &#8220;indefinitely&#8221;, Central Asia Online reported on 28 July 2011. <\/p>\n<p>The delay is blamed on &#8220;legal and technical issues&#8221; including &#8220;the incompatibility of the railway\u2019s track width with that of Afghan railways&#8221; &#8211; which seems a little odd &#8211; and the lack of Afghan locomotives, rolling stock and trained workers. There have also been problems with unstable ground.<\/p>\n<p>More at &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/centralasiaonline.com\/cocoon\/caii\/xhtml\/en_GB\/newsbriefs\/caii\/newsbriefs\/2011\/07\/28\/newsbrief-11\">Afghan railway launch delayed<\/a>&#8221; by Maksim Yeniseyev at Central Asia Online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opening of the Hayratan to Mazar-i-Sharif line had been planned for July, but has been delayed &#8220;indefinitely&#8221;, Central Asia Online reported on 28 July 2011. The delay is blamed on &#8220;legal and technical issues&#8221; including &#8220;the incompatibility of the railway\u2019s track width with that of Afghan railways&#8221; &#8211; which seems a little odd &#8211; and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[36,114],"class_list":["post-4163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistans-railways","category-projects","tag-central-asia-online","tag-mazar-i-sharif"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4163","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=4163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}