{"id":2580,"date":"2001-12-31T23:59:35","date_gmt":"2001-12-31T23:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/?p=2580"},"modified":"2013-04-24T18:46:15","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T18:46:15","slug":"iraq-railway-news-2001","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/iraq-railway-news-2001\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq railway news 2001"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>2001-09 <q>Through passenger services have resumed between Iraq and Turkey. Since July a weekly train has operated between Baghdad, Mosul and the Turkish city of Mardin.<\/q> <cite>Railway Gazette International<\/cite> September 2001.<\/li>\n<li>2001-08 <q>The Ministry of Railways in Iraq is reported to have  received bids for a turnkey contract to build a 112km belt railway around Baghdad, based on designs prepared by Italian consultancy Sotecni.The project also includes an 11km four-track route from the belt line to Baghdad Central.<\/q> <cite>Railway Gazette International<\/cite> August 2001.<\/li>\n<li>2001-07-14 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chaldeansonline.net\/news\/news071501-2.htm\">Iraq to resume regular train service with Turkey after 20 year break<\/a><\/li>\n<li>2001-07-05 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arabicnews.com\/ansub\/Daily\/Day\/010507\/2001050717.html\">Railways line between Iraq, Turkey re-opened<\/a><\/li>\n<li>2001-06-24 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arabicnews.com\/ansub\/Daily\/Day\/010624\/2001062401.html\">Iraq to resume train trips to Turkey<\/a><\/li>\n<li>2001-05-06 <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/middle_east\/1316462.stm\">Turkey reopens Iraq rail-link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>2001-04-20 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rferl.org\/iraq-report\/2001\/04\/13-200401.html\">CZECHS TO SUPPLY ENGINES FOR IRAQI RAILROADS<\/a>.<q> The Diesel International (DI) company of the Czech Republic has received a contract worth 140 million crowns ($3.7 million), according to a report in the Prague newspaper <cite>Hospodarske Noviny<\/cite> of 10 April<\/q>.<\/li>\n<li>2001-01-04 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arabicnews.com\/ansub\/Daily\/Day\/010104\/2001010420.html\"><br \/>\nIraq, Turkey to operate the railway line<\/a><\/li>\n<li>2001-01-03 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arabicnews.com\/ansub\/Daily\/Day\/010103\/2001010308.html\"><br \/>\nJordan, Iraq revive the railway line project<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2001-09 Through passenger services have resumed between Iraq and Turkey. Since July a weekly train has operated between Baghdad, Mosul and the Turkish city of Mardin. Railway Gazette International September 2001. 2001-08 The Ministry of Railways in Iraq is reported to have received bids for a turnkey contract to build a 112km belt railway around [&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\/2580"}],"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=2580"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2721,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2580\/revisions\/2721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}