{"id":4544,"date":"2012-02-03T23:41:49","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T23:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/?p=4544"},"modified":"2012-02-03T23:41:49","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T23:41:49","slug":"first-commercial-freight-train-on-mazar-i-sharif-railway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/first-commercial-freight-train-on-mazar-i-sharif-railway\/","title":{"rendered":"First commercial freight train on Mazar-i-Sharif railway"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Celebrations were held at Naibabad freight terminal at 12.00 on February 3, when \u2018a substantial reception party\u2019 greeted the arrival of the first train carrying commercial traffic on the 75 km <a href=\"\/afghanistan\/railways\/hairatan-to-mazar-i-sharif\/\">rail link between Hairatan and Mazar-i-Sharif<\/a>. [more&#8230;]<br \/>\n<cite>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railwaygazette.com\/nc\/news\/single-view\/view\/afghan-railway-starts-commercial-traffic.html\">Afghan railway starts commercial traffic<\/a>, Railway Gazette International, 3 February 2012<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The train was hauled by locomotive 2\u0422\u042d10\u041c-2337, and comprised nine wagons carrying flour from Kazakhstan and three wagons of Siberian timber. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrations were held at Naibabad freight terminal at 12.00 on February 3, when \u2018a substantial reception party\u2019 greeted the arrival of the first train carrying commercial traffic on the 75 km rail link between Hairatan and Mazar-i-Sharif. [more&#8230;] Source: Afghan railway starts commercial traffic, Railway Gazette International, 3 February 2012 The train was hauled by [&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":[114],"class_list":["post-4544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistans-railways","tag-mazar-i-sharif"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4544","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=4544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}