{"id":151,"date":"2007-08-06T21:43:31","date_gmt":"2007-08-06T21:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"\/2007\/08\/06\/steam-loco-at-the-bottom-of-the-sea\/"},"modified":"2013-04-24T18:45:56","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T18:45:56","slug":"steam-loco-at-the-bottom-of-the-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/steam-loco-at-the-bottom-of-the-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Steam loco at the bottom of the sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The September 2007 issue of <cite>Railway Magazine<\/cite> has an article entitled &#8220;Locos Lost At Sea&#8221; by Mike Hudson and Philip Atkins, which attempts to list all the locomotives which have been lost beneath the waves through ship wrecks and the like. <\/p>\n<p>It mentions in passing &#8220;an Iraqi streamlined Pacific&#8221;, and a table of sunken locos lists it as lost &#8220;1940(?)&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>This is the Robert Stephenson &#038; Hawthorns loco which was to have been Iraqi railways PC class number 504 <i>Kirkuk<\/i>.\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.enuii.com\/vulcan_foundry\/RS&#038;H\/RSH_Streamliner_Baghdad_to_Mosul_Railway.jpg\">big works photo<\/a> of one of the locos, I think 502 <i>El Mosul<\/i>.<\/li>\n<li>The Restoration &#038; Archiving Trust has some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ratrust.org\/Photos\/Iraq\/IRR_Standard_Gauge\/irr_standard_gauge.html\">colour photos<\/a> of these locos.\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ratrust.org\/Photos\/Iraq\/IRR_Standard_Gauge\/IRR_Standard_Gauge\/irr_standard_gauge_13.html\">501 <i>Baghdad<\/i> (RSH 6982\/1940) <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ratrust.org\/Photos\/Iraq\/IRR_Standard_Gauge\/IRR_Standard_Gauge\/irr_standard_gauge_11.html\">502 <i>El Mosul<\/i> (RSH 6983\/1940)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ratrust.org\/Photos\/Iraq\/IRR_Standard_Gauge\/IRR_Standard_Gauge\/irr_standard_gauge_7.html\">503 <i>El Basra<\/i> (RSH 6984\/1940) <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Some <a href=\"http:\/\/orion.math.iastate.edu\/jdhsmith\/term\/sliqisr.htm\">technical specifications<\/a> of the PC class<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The September 2007 issue of Railway Magazine has an article entitled &#8220;Locos Lost At Sea&#8221; by Mike Hudson and Philip Atkins, which attempts to list all the locomotives which have been lost beneath the waves through ship wrecks and the like. It mentions in passing &#8220;an Iraqi streamlined Pacific&#8221;, and a table of sunken locos [&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\/151"}],"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=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2689,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions\/2689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}