{"id":4555,"date":"2012-02-12T20:19:03","date_gmt":"2012-02-12T20:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/?p=4555"},"modified":"2012-09-10T13:31:28","modified_gmt":"2012-09-10T12:31:28","slug":"photos-of-the-first-commercial-train-on-the-mazar-i-sharif-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/photos-of-the-first-commercial-train-on-the-mazar-i-sharif-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos of the first commercial train on the Mazar-i-Sharif line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Photographs of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railwaygazette.com\/nc\/news\/single-view\/view\/afghan-railway-starts-commercial-traffic.html\">first commercial train to Naibabad<\/a> (terminus of the new railway from <a href=\"\/afghanistan\/railways\/hairatan-to-mazar-i-sharif\/\">Hairatan to Mazar-i-Sharif<\/a>), on 3 February 2012. <\/p>\n<p>All photos by David Brice. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/images\/rail\/af-naibabad-2t116-first-revenue-train-to-mazarisharif-afghanistan-20120203-davidbrice1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/rail\/af-naibabad-2t116-first-revenue-train-to-mazarisharif-afghanistan-20120203-davidbrice1-small.jpg\" title=\"First commercial train to Naibabad, east of Mazar-i-Sharif, on 3 February 2012 (Photo: David Brice).\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The train was hauled by locomotive  2\u0422\u042d10\u041c-2337. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/images\/rail\/af-naibabad-2t116-first-revenue-train-to-mazarisharif-afghanistan-20120203-davidbrice2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/rail\/af-naibabad-2t116-first-revenue-train-to-mazarisharif-afghanistan-20120203-davidbrice2-small.jpg\" title=\"First commercial train to Naibabad, east of Mazar-i-Sharif, on 3 February 2012 (Photo: David Brice).\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The train comprised nine wagons carrying flour from Kazakhstan and three wagons of Siberian timber. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/images\/rail\/af-naibabad-2t116-first-revenue-train-to-mazarisharif-afghanistan-20120203-davidbrice3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/rail\/af-naibabad-2t116-first-revenue-train-to-mazarisharif-afghanistan-20120203-davidbrice3-small.jpg\" title=\"First commercial train to Naibabad, east of Mazar-i-Sharif, on 3 February 2012 (Photo: David Brice).\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>There is another photo on a 7 February 2012 story from Ariana News <a href=\"http:\/\/ariananews.af\/regional\/for-the-first-time-transport-of-goods-by-rail-commenced-in-afghanistan\/\">For the first time transport of goods by rail commenced in Afghanistan<\/a>: &#8220;The Naibabad port has the capacity of loading and unloading 34 trucks at a time while the local officials are looking to upgrade the capacity of that port.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The CAREC article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carecprogram.org\/index.php?page=afghan-railway-opens-promotes-cooperation\">Hairatan-Mazar-e-Sharif railway opens, highlights country-to-country cooperation<\/a> has a photo of an inaugural train arriving at the &#8220;newly built Naibabad Station in the city of Mazar-e-Sharif&#8221; on 21 December 2011. &#8220;Although the seven-carriage train carried no cargo, it brought great opportunity for increased trade and cooperation between Afghanistan and its neighbors in Central Asia&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photographs of the first commercial train to Naibabad (terminus of the new railway from Hairatan to Mazar-i-Sharif), on 3 February 2012. All photos by David Brice. The train was hauled by locomotive 2\u0422\u042d10\u041c-2337. The train comprised nine wagons carrying flour from Kazakhstan and three wagons of Siberian timber. There is another photo on a 7 [&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":[114,122,136],"class_list":["post-4555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistans-railways","tag-mazar-i-sharif","tag-naibabad","tag-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4555","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=4555"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5187,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4555\/revisions\/5187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}