{"id":6662,"date":"2017-08-14T18:25:43","date_gmt":"2017-08-14T17:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/?p=6662"},"modified":"2018-03-25T21:08:45","modified_gmt":"2018-03-25T20:08:45","slug":"king-amanullah-and-a-pullman-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/king-amanullah-and-a-pullman-car\/","title":{"rendered":"King Amanullah and a Pullman car"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This photo appeared on a King Amanullah fan group on Facebook. I am not sure where the location is, but it could<\/em> be during his trip to Portland to see a naval demonstration on Tuesday 3 April 1928<\/a>. <\/p>\n

King Amanullah travelled from London Waterloo to Portland on a special train comprising Pullman cars hauled by Southern Railway steam locomotive number 850 Lord Nelson<\/i><\/a>. Because this locomotive was unable to travel on the Portland branch, two ex-London & South Western Railway Class O2 locomotives<\/a> hauled the train from Weymouth to Portland where a special platform had been built near the Camber jetty for the king to disembark.1<\/a><\/sup> The platform was dismantled after the visit.<\/p>\n

After inspecting a guard of honour, the King was taken to on the Admiral’s barge to the flagship HMS Nelson<\/a>.2<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

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  1. Station Name: Portland Dockyard<\/a>, Disused stations, Nick Catford ↩<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Film: Afghan’s King Sees Britain’s Might<\/a>. ↩<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    This photo appeared on a King Amanullah fan group on Facebook. I am not sure where the location is, but it could be during his trip to Portland to see a naval demonstration on Tuesday 3 April 1928. King Amanullah travelled from London Waterloo to Portland on a special train comprising Pullman cars hauled by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[15,315],"class_list":["post-6662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistans-railways","tag-amanullah","tag-pullman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6662","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=6662"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6972,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6662\/revisions\/6972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}