{"id":199,"date":"2007-12-23T08:34:30","date_gmt":"2007-12-23T08:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"\/2007\/12\/23\/aslef-article-on-irr\/"},"modified":"2013-04-24T18:45:54","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T18:45:54","slug":"aslef-article-on-irr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/aslef-article-on-irr\/","title":{"rendered":"ASLEF article on IRR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The December 2007 issue of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aslef.org.uk\/information\/100012\/102209\/102211\/locomotive_journal\/\"><cite>ASLEF Journal<\/cite><\/a>, the in-house magazine of a UK railway <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aslef.org.uk\">trade union<\/a>, has a one-page article entitled &#8220;<em>A long way to go for Iraq&#8217;s railways<\/em>&#8220;. This says<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Baghdad &#8211; Basra was discontinued last year and remains closed<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;only about 10 people a day board the 10-hour trip from the capital to Mosul &#8211; and that nearly of them are railway employees.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li> &#8220;various outposts [&#8230;] manage to run limited local trains, but it is in the face of terrorists threats and criminal gangs.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The remote railhead in the desert at al-Qaim runs infrequent and unreliable services &#8230;&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aslef.org.uk\/Shared_ASP_Files\/UploadedFiles\/4DB7864F-7C8F-4C82-B76B-454B1BC5A24C_dec07.pdf\">Download the magazine<\/a> as a PDF. The Iraq article is on page 11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The December 2007 issue of the ASLEF Journal, the in-house magazine of a UK railway trade union, has a one-page article entitled &#8220;A long way to go for Iraq&#8217;s railways&#8220;. This says Baghdad &#8211; Basra was discontinued last year and remains closed &#8220;only about 10 people a day board the 10-hour trip from the capital [&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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199"}],"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=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2682,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions\/2682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}