{"id":7666,"date":"2021-08-01T00:01:10","date_gmt":"2021-07-31T23:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/?p=7666"},"modified":"2021-07-28T19:30:13","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T18:30:13","slug":"torghundi-rail-terminal-in-1960","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/torghundi-rail-terminal-in-1960\/","title":{"rendered":"Torghundi rail terminal in 1960"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A photo of a page of an unknown bilingual book showing photos of the <a href=\"\/afghanistan\/railways\/torghundi-and-the-railway-from-turkmenistan\/\">&#8220;railhead at Torghandi&#8221;<\/a> and the construction of a &#8220;Torghundi-Kandahar concrete highway&#8221;. Someone has added &#8220;1960&#8221; to the electronic image; presumably the date of the book. <\/p>\n<p>The railway across the Afghan border from the USSR (now Turkmenistan) might have been <a href=\"\/afghanistan\/torghundi-railway-opening-date\/\">built as part of the USSR &#8211; Herat &#8211; Kandahar road project<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Anyone know the name of the book?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-content\/uploads\/Torghundi-in-1960.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-content\/uploads\/Torghundi-in-1960.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"770\" height=\"960\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-content\/uploads\/Torghundi-in-1960.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-content\/uploads\/Torghundi-in-1960-241x300.jpg 241w, https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-content\/uploads\/Torghundi-in-1960-768x958.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A photo of a page of an unknown bilingual book showing photos of the &#8220;railhead at Torghandi&#8221; and the construction of a &#8220;Torghundi-Kandahar concrete highway&#8221;. Someone has added &#8220;1960&#8221; to the electronic image; presumably the date of the book. The railway across the Afghan border from the USSR (now Turkmenistan) might have been built as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,9],"tags":[184,198],"class_list":["post-7666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistans-railways","category-history","category-photographs","tag-towraghondi","tag-ussr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7666","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=7666"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7678,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7666\/revisions\/7678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}