{"id":6466,"date":"2015-12-21T21:25:54","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T21:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/?p=6466"},"modified":"2016-02-09T14:30:15","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T14:30:15","slug":"afghanistan-national-railway-plan-at-the-carec-railway-working-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/afghanistan-national-railway-plan-at-the-carec-railway-working-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan National Railway Plan at the CAREC Railway Working Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The First Meeting of the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation organisation&#8217;s Railway Working Group was held on Tokyo on 24-26 November 2015. The CAREC Railway Working Group was formed after the <a href=\"\/afghanistan\/carec-railway-plans\/\">14th CAREC Transport Sector Coordinating Committee Meeting<\/a> which was held in Ulaanbaatar on 28-29 April 2015, and aims to guide the development of a short and medium-term railway strategy for the CAREC region.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/images\/rail\/af-carec-1strailwaymeeting-afra-presentation-screenshot.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/rail\/af-carec-1strailwaymeeting-afra-presentation-screenshot.jpg\" alt=\"Afghanistan National Railway Plan map\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carecprogram.org\/index.php?page=1st-meeting-of-the-carec-railway-working-group\">presentations from the meeting can be downloaded from the CAREC website<\/a>, and have a lot of interesting information about railways in the CAREC member countries.<\/p>\n<p>Day 1 featured a presentation on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carecprogram.org\/uploads\/events\/2015\/035-Railway-WG-Meeting\/Presentation-Materials\/Day-1\/2015-RWG-Meeting-P01_Presentation%20by%20AFG_EN.pdf\">Afghanistan National Railway Plan and Way Forward<\/a> by Mohammad Yamma Shams, Director General &#038; Chief Executive Officer of the Afghanistan Railway Authority. This sets out current thinking under AfRA&#8217;s Afghanistan National Railway Plan, and the status of the various proposals for a 5500 km network. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The First Meeting of the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation organisation&#8217;s Railway Working Group was held on Tokyo on 24-26 November 2015. The CAREC Railway Working Group was formed after the 14th CAREC Transport Sector Coordinating Committee Meeting which was held in Ulaanbaatar on 28-29 April 2015, and aims to guide the development of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[277,34],"class_list":["post-6466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistans-railways","category-projects","tag-afra","tag-carec"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6466","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=6466"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6478,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6466\/revisions\/6478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}