{"id":431,"date":"2008-10-26T19:00:37","date_gmt":"2008-10-26T18:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ccgi.ajg41.plus.com\/?p=431"},"modified":"2012-09-08T21:53:52","modified_gmt":"2012-09-08T20:53:52","slug":"afghan-turkmenistan-border-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/afghan-turkmenistan-border-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan-Turkmenistan border photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wuestenfuchs.com\/afg\/all\/kund_verbahn01.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/rail\/af-turkmenborder-wuestenfuchs-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Train at the Afghanistan - Turkmenistan border \" title=\"Train at the Afghanistan - Turkmenistan border (Photo by Norbert Ratzke)\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-522\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are photographs of the railway across the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan border at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wuestenfuchs.com\">www.wuestenfuchs.com<\/a>, the website of Norbert Ratzke of K&ouml;ln who was in Herat from January to April 2004.<\/p>\n<p>The pictures show a 1520 mm gauge diesel loco (half of a 2\u0422\u042d10\u041b?) crossing the border, and the freight yard at Towraghondi.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wuestenfuchs.com\/afg\/all\/kund_verbahn01.html\">Photos of Turkmenistan railways 01<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wuestenfuchs.com\/afg\/all\/kund_verbahn02.html\">Photos of Turkmenistan railways 02<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wuestenfuchs.com\/afg\/all\/grenze_afgtur.html\">Afghanistan\/Turkmenistan border checkpoint and warehouses<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><q>There is no railway transport in the country. At the Turkmen-Afghan border a Russian train runs about 500 meters on Afghan territory. There it is unloaded and returns to Turkmenistan.<\/q><\/p>\n<p>In 2007 Turkmenistan launched a USD 550 000 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railwaygazette.com\/news\/single-view\/view\/afghan-rebuild-underway.html\">programme to upgrade the line<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are photographs of the railway across the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan border at www.wuestenfuchs.com, the website of Norbert Ratzke of K&ouml;ln who was in Herat from January to April 2004. The pictures show a 1520 mm gauge diesel loco (half of a 2\u0422\u042d10\u041b?) crossing the border, and the freight yard at Towraghondi. Photos of Turkmenistan railways 01 [&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],"tags":[184,191],"class_list":["post-431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistans-railways","tag-towraghondi","tag-turkmenistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431","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=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5148,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions\/5148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}