{"id":4493,"date":"2012-01-09T23:42:56","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T23:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/?p=4493"},"modified":"2012-09-10T13:34:10","modified_gmt":"2012-09-10T12:34:10","slug":"herat-railway-construction-and-afghan-coal-mining-on-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/herat-railway-construction-and-afghan-coal-mining-on-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Herat railway construction and Afghan coal mining on video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are downloadable MP4 format videos entitled <em>Afghanistan Train Line<\/em>, <em>Coal Baghlan Province<\/em> and <em>Gold Mine<\/em> on the website of Awaz News, &#8220;an Afghan independent news agency operating throughout Afghanistan and providing in-depth reporting to television and radio networks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/awaz-news.com\/economy.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/rail\/af-awaznews-screenshot.jpg\" alt=\"Awaz News screenshot\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the &#8220;Economy\/Infrastructures&#8221; section of the website, the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/awaz-news.com\/economy.html\">Afghanistan Train Line<\/a>&#8221; (13 minutes) video includes images of bridges and construction sites, along with Iranian flags. While the commentary is not in English (presumably it is Dari &#8211; can anyone confirm?) there are some recognisable place names. From this, I think the video might well show hard evidence of construction works underway for the <a href=\"\/afghanistan\/railways\/iran-to-herat\/\">Iran to Herat railway<\/a>. The video shows bridges and cuttings, but no sign of tracklaying or railway systems installation.<\/p>\n<p>The computer generated impressions of trains are clearly not of Afghanistan &#8211; they appear to show <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skoda.cz\/en\/products\/electric-multiple-units\/electric-multiple-units-series-471\/\">Skoda CityElefant<\/a> electric trains from the Czech Republic.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/awaz-news.com\/economy.html\">Gold Mine<\/a>&#8221; video (12.12 minutes) has some brief railway shots, I suspect of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/industrial-railways-coal\/\">Karkar and Dudkash coal mines<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The mines are covered depth in the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/awaz-news.com\/natural.html\">Coal Baghlan Province<\/a>&#8221; video (13.5 min) on the Natural Resources section of the Awaz News website, this video is well worth a watch if you are interested in industrial things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are downloadable MP4 format videos entitled Afghanistan Train Line, Coal Baghlan Province and Gold Mine on the website of Awaz News, &#8220;an Afghan independent news agency operating throughout Afghanistan and providing in-depth reporting to television and radio networks.&#8221; On the &#8220;Economy\/Infrastructures&#8221; section of the website, the &#8220;Afghanistan Train Line&#8221; (13 minutes) video includes images [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,10],"tags":[21,43,81,85,204],"class_list":["post-4493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistans-railways","category-links","category-projects","tag-awaz-news","tag-coal-mine","tag-herat","tag-iran","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4493","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=4493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5192,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4493\/revisions\/5192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}