{"id":6332,"date":"2015-11-17T22:16:26","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T22:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/?p=6332"},"modified":"2015-11-17T22:16:26","modified_gmt":"2015-11-17T22:16:26","slug":"turkmenistans-afghan-border-rail-link-nears-completion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/turkmenistans-afghan-border-rail-link-nears-completion\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkmenistan&#8217;s Afghan border rail link nears completion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/ms?ie=UTF8&amp;hl=en&amp;t=h&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=216968086968074377513.000492eaa4f7436e3027d&amp;source=embed&amp;ll=37.291535,65.418091&amp;spn=1.529536,2.334595&amp;output=embed\"><\/iframe><br \/><small>View <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/ms?ie=UTF8&amp;hl=en&amp;t=h&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=216968086968074377513.000492eaa4f7436e3027d&amp;source=embed&amp;ll=37.291535,65.418091&amp;spn=1.529536,2.334595\" style=\"color:#0000FF;text-align:left\">Turkmenistan &#8211; Andkhoy railway plan<\/a> in a larger map<\/small><\/p>\n<p>Turkmenistan has completed construction of the 85 km Atamurat<sup class='footnote'><a href='#fn-6332-1' id='fnref-6332-1' onclick='return fdfootnote_show(6332)'>1<\/a><\/sup> &#8211; Imamnazar<sup class='footnote'><a href='#fn-6332-2' id='fnref-6332-2' onclick='return fdfootnote_show(6332)'>2<\/a><\/sup> section of the future Turkmenistan &#8211; Afghanistan &#8211; Tajikistan railway, Trend News Agency reports,<sup class='footnote'><a href='#fn-6332-3' id='fnref-6332-3' onclick='return fdfootnote_show(6332)'>3<\/a><\/sup> citing a message from the Turkmen government (<em>I can&#8217;t find this message &#8211; does anyone know if it is available online?<\/em>). <\/p>\n<p>Construction of the line was <a href=\"\/afghanistan\/presidents-launch-construction-of-turkmenistan-afghanistan-tajikistan-railway\/\">ceremonially launched on 5 June 2013<\/a>. Earthworks are visible on Google Maps satellite photos, running in a straight line southwest from Atamurat.<\/p>\n<p>Trend says two bridges and two stations are still to be completed, along with the final 3&nbsp;km from Imamnazar in Turkmenistan across the border to Akina<sup class='footnote'><a href='#fn-6332-4' id='fnref-6332-4' onclick='return fdfootnote_show(6332)'>4<\/a><\/sup> in Afghanistan. A planned 35 km continuation within Afghanistan would take the line to Andkhoy. <\/p>\n<p>In the longer term, this line would be extended though northern Afghanistan to Tajikistan.  &#8220;Commissioning of the railway will make this route an inseparable link of the modern ramified transport and communications infrastructure in the Asian region&#8221;, Turkmenistan&#8217;s official new agency said in September 2015.<sup class='footnote'><a href='#fn-6332-5' id='fnref-6332-5' onclick='return fdfootnote_show(6332)'>5<\/a><\/sup> <\/p>\n<p>According to Turkmenistan&#8217;s offical website Golden Age, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov and President of Afghanistan Ashraf Ghani recently had a telephone conversation &#8220;on the initiative of the Afghan side&#8221;. During this conversation, Ghani &#8220;expressed his heartfelt gratitude to the Turkmen leader for laying a section of Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Tajikistan railway to the border of Afghanistan&#8221;.<sup class='footnote'><a href='#fn-6332-6' id='fnref-6332-6' onclick='return fdfootnote_show(6332)'>6<\/a><\/sup> <\/p>\n<h3>References<\/h3>\n<div class='footnotes' id='footnotes-6332'>\n<div class='footnotedivider'><\/div>\n<ol>\n<li id='fn-6332-1'> Also written Atamyrat; formerly known as Kerki <span class='footnotereverse'><a href='#fnref-6332-1'>&#8617;<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li id='fn-6332-2'> Also written Ymamnazar, etc <span class='footnotereverse'><a href='#fnref-6332-2'>&#8617;<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li id='fn-6332-3'> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.trend.az\/business\/economy\/2457270.html\">Turkmenistan builds railway to Afghan borders<\/a>, Huseyn Hasanov, Trend News Agency, 17 November 2015 <span class='footnotereverse'><a href='#fnref-6332-3'>&#8617;<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li id='fn-6332-4'> Also written Aqina, Acqina etc <span class='footnotereverse'><a href='#fnref-6332-4'>&#8617;<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li id='fn-6332-5'> <a href=\"http:\/\/tdh.gov.tm\/index.php\/en\/politics\/news\/14593-2015-09-17-22-47-55\">President of Turkmenistan received the governmental delegation of Afghanistan<\/a>, T\u00fcrkmen d\u00f6wlet habarlar agentligi, 17 September 2015 <span class='footnotereverse'><a href='#fnref-6332-5'>&#8617;<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li id='fn-6332-6'> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.turkmenistan.gov.tm\/_eng\/?id=5284\">Telephone conversation between the leaders of Turkmenistan and Afghanistan<\/a>, The Golden Age, 9 November 2015 <span class='footnotereverse'><a href='#fnref-6332-6'>&#8617;<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>View Turkmenistan &#8211; Andkhoy railway plan in a larger map Turkmenistan has completed construction of the 85 km Atamurat1 &#8211; Imamnazar2 section of the future Turkmenistan &#8211; Afghanistan &#8211; Tajikistan railway, Trend News Agency reports,3 citing a message from the Turkmen government (I can&#8217;t find this message &#8211; does anyone know if it is available [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[299,191],"class_list":["post-6332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects","tag-tat-railway","tag-turkmenistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6332","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=6332"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6348,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6332\/revisions\/6348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}