{"id":5854,"date":"2014-05-04T14:08:11","date_gmt":"2014-05-04T13:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/?p=5854"},"modified":"2014-05-06T18:53:28","modified_gmt":"2014-05-06T17:53:28","slug":"rail-developments-in-northern-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/rail-developments-in-northern-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Rail developments in northern Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting article about the Uzbekistan &#8211; Hayratan &#8211; Mazar-i-Sharif railway from the Fayetteville Observer: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fayobserver.com\/military\/article_cfedb19b-4d41-515a-b9b9-767d52cd9cc2.html\">U.S. works to get Afghans on track with rail network<\/a>, Drew Brooks, Fay Observer, 2 May 2014. <\/p>\n<p>The article is well worth a read. Some highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>About 4 600 wagons a month use the line between the border and Mazar-e-Sharif.\n<li>More than 90% of the fuel used by coalition forces enters Afghanistan by rail through Hayratan.\n<li>The railway from Camp Marmal near Mazar-i-Sharif is a &#8220;secondary outlet&#8221; for military equipment leaving for ports in Latvia or Estonia.\n<li>The line is a &#8220;major thoroughfare&#8221; for coalition military equipment being shipped to Germany or France, but has only carried about 600 to 700 US containers\n<li>The line is operated by Uzbekistan as part of a bilateral agreement. The Uzbek government &#8211; not Afghanistan &#8211; collects money from the imports.\n<li>Afghanistan is expected to eventually take control of the line.\n<li>Afghanistan has already assumed responsibility for some tasks and purchased its first two locomotives [does anyone know what they are?].\n<li>The international co-operation that helped create the line is seen as integral to the development of a larger network.\n<li>&#8220;This is the safest place in all of Afghanistan.&#8221;\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are also a couple of photos, including a good aerial view of the area around the Friendship Bridge.<\/p>\n<p>Finally: <q>&#8220;The idea of a transportation network is a new idea for them,&#8221; Hakey said before motioning to a small wooden tabletop. &#8220;Back home, you have a lot of interest groups, there are rail fans. Here, you could probably lay out all the photos of Afghan rail on this table.&#8221;<\/q><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting article about the Uzbekistan &#8211; Hayratan &#8211; Mazar-i-Sharif railway from the Fayetteville Observer: U.S. works to get Afghans on track with rail network, Drew Brooks, Fay Observer, 2 May 2014. The article is well worth a read. Some highlights: About 4 600 wagons a month use the line between the border and Mazar-e-Sharif. [&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":[261,79,114,196,197,200],"class_list":["post-5854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistans-railways","category-links","category-projects","tag-fay-observer","tag-hayratan","tag-mazar-i-sharif","tag-us-army","tag-usa","tag-uzbekistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5854","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=5854"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5877,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5854\/revisions\/5877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}