{"id":1828,"date":"2009-04-19T19:00:22","date_gmt":"2009-04-19T18:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=1828"},"modified":"2013-04-24T18:43:39","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T18:43:39","slug":"iraqi-passenger-services-in-the-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/iraqi-passenger-services-in-the-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraqi passenger services in The Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><cite>The Times<\/cite> had a couple of articles about passenger services in Iraq last week. <\/p>\n<p>One is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/world\/iraq\/article6087847.ece\">Iraq&#8217;s struggle to get railway back on track after neglect and war<\/a> (14 April 2009). It seems the Baghdad &#8211; Dora commuter service is somewhat unsuccessful, but &#8220;Against the odds, the minister has reopened a nightly passenger route between Baghdad and Basra. A train also runs every Friday to Samarra, a holy city to the north of the capital, carrying pilgrims to its golden-domed shrine. Last month a weekly service resumed between Baghdad and Fallujah.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/timesonline.typepad.com\/inside_iraq_weblog\/2009\/04\/taken-for-a-ride-in-baghdad.html\">Taken for a ride in Baghdad&#8230;<\/a> (13 April 2009) the newspaper&#8217;s Baghdad Correspondent, Deborah Haynes, decribes how the Ministry of Transport organised a press trip on the commuter train &#8230; but something wasn&#8217;t quite right about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Times had a couple of articles about passenger services in Iraq last week. One is Iraq&#8217;s struggle to get railway back on track after neglect and war (14 April 2009). It seems the Baghdad &#8211; Dora commuter service is somewhat unsuccessful, but &#8220;Against the odds, the minister has reopened a nightly passenger route between [&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":[16,25,38,117],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828"}],"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=1828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2625,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828\/revisions\/2625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}