{"id":142,"date":"2007-06-26T20:30:47","date_gmt":"2007-06-26T20:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"\/2007\/06\/26\/streamlined-steam-loco\/"},"modified":"2013-04-24T18:45:56","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T18:45:56","slug":"streamlined-steam-loco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/streamlined-steam-loco\/","title":{"rendered":"Streamlined steam loco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/images\/rail\/iq-streamliner-155735.jpg\"><img src='\/images\/rail\/iq-streamliner-155735.thumbnail.jpg' title='Streamlined steam loco' alt='Streamlined steam loco' style=\"float:right; margin-left:1em;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A postcard found by Rainer Fuchs which shows one of the streamlined pacific steam locomotives built for Iraq by Robert Stephenson &#038; Hawthorns in 1940. Locos 501 <i>Baghdad<\/i>, 502 <i>El Mosul<\/i> and 503 <i>El Basrah<\/i> entered service in 1941, but 504 <i>Kirkuk<\/i> didn&#8217;t make it and is now on the seabed somewhere&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>There is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.enuii.com\/vulcan_foundry\/RS&#038;H\/RSH_Streamliner_Baghdad_to_Mosul_Railway.jpg\">high-resolution works photo<\/a> of one of the 4-6-2 locos on this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.enuii.com\/vulcan_foundry\/\">Vulcan Foundary website<\/a>. Comparing the shapes of the letters on the nameplate with written versions of the four possible names, and the photo in Hugh Hughes&#8217;s book <cite>Middle East Railways<\/cite>, I think both photos show No.502 <i>El Mosul<\/i>, but I&#8217;ll defer to any Arabic speakers on the matter!<\/p>\n<p>The Vulcan Foundary website has scans of a magazine article describing 10 oil-fired <a href=\"http:\/\/www.enuii.com\/vulcan_foundry\/magazine\/Vol2_no12_1953\/15-22.htm\">metre-gauge 2-8-2 locos<\/a> built for Iraq. Plus a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.enuii.com\/vulcan_foundry\/photographs\/locomotives\/no%206156-6165%20%20iraq%20yd%201953.jpg\">photo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A postcard found by Rainer Fuchs which shows one of the streamlined pacific steam locomotives built for Iraq by Robert Stephenson &#038; Hawthorns in 1940. Locos 501 Baghdad, 502 El Mosul and 503 El Basrah entered service in 1941, but 504 Kirkuk didn&#8217;t make it and is now on the seabed somewhere&#8230; There is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[79],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2691,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions\/2691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}