{"id":2257,"date":"2012-09-11T22:31:53","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T22:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/?page_id=2257"},"modified":"2012-09-11T22:34:55","modified_gmt":"2012-09-11T22:34:55","slug":"narrow-gauge-and-miniature-railways","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/narrow-gauge-and-miniature-railways\/","title":{"rendered":"Narrow gauge and miniature railways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Park and pleasure railways in Iraq.<\/p>\n<h2>al-Zawraa Park, Baghdad<\/h2>\n<p>There is a circular narrow gauge railway around Baghdad&#8217;s Zawraa Park, close to the Central station. The diesel(?) locomotive seems to be a rather interesting machine &#8211; possibly locally made?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.panoramio.com\/photo\/72650015\">2012 photo<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/photoblog.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2011\/12\/02\/9173935-iraqis-enjoy-tranquility-of-zawraa-park-in-baghdad?lite\">2011-12-02 photo<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.panoramio.com\/photo\/54218588\">2011 photo<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/image\/120249\/mnd-b-soldiers-ip-visit-zawra-park#.UE-uH0YsYuc\n\">2008-10-04 photo<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/iraqslogger.powweb.com\/index.php\/post\/5111\/Sunny_Times_Bring_Baghdad_Families_Out_to_Park\">2007-12-14 photo<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This aerial photo of a park shows the railway; I&#8217;m not sure where the person who sent me the picture found it, or what date it is.<br \/>\n<a title=\"[Photo of a park showing a circular railway line]\" href=\"\/images\/iraq\/baghdad-park.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/iraq\/baghdad-park.jpg\" title=Zara park railway, Baghdad\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Has anyone been for a ride? <\/p>\n<p>\nThere were reports of a 3 foot gauge amusement park railway with a Crown Metal Products steam engine, possibly one &#8220;acquired&#8221; from Kuwait&#8217;s Entertainment City following the invasion. This could be the same line.\n<\/p>\n<h2>Baghdad Zoo<\/h2>\n<p>\nThe Restoration &amp; Archiving Trust has some photos of a <a href=\"http:\/\/gwrarchive.org\/site\/sitel2pg\/Iraq\/iraq.php\">2-8-0 on a miniature railway at Baghdad Zoo<\/a> in March 1967. While Baghdad Zoo is in al-Zawraa park, this is clearly a different, smaller, line to the one above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Park and pleasure railways in Iraq. al-Zawraa Park, Baghdad There is a circular narrow gauge railway around Baghdad&#8217;s Zawraa Park, close to the Central station. The diesel(?) locomotive seems to be a rather interesting machine &#8211; possibly locally made? 2012 photo 2011-12-02 photo 2011 photo 2008-10-04 photo 2007-12-14 photo This aerial photo of a park [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2257"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2257"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2551,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2257\/revisions\/2551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}