{"id":2737,"date":"2013-12-05T22:53:37","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T22:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/?p=2737"},"modified":"2013-12-05T22:53:37","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T22:53:37","slug":"egyptian-railways-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/egyptian-railways-website\/","title":{"rendered":"Egyptian Railways website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Goldfinch, author of the excellent book <cite>Steel in the Sand<\/cite>, has an unofficial website on Egyptian Railways. <\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.egyptianrailways.com\/\">Egyptian Railways Diwan<\/a> is described as &#8220;a website and blog area intended to fill the need for a space on the internet dedicated to people to share their knowledge, expertise, news, photos and stories about Egyptian Railways&#8221;, and looks well worth keeping an eye on.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any kind of interest in the history of Egypt&#8217;s railways &#8211; or in the country itself during the railway era &#8211; I&#8217;d strong recommend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.egyptianrailways.com\/shop\/steel-in-the-sand\/\">acquiring a copy of <i>Steel in the Sand<\/i><\/a>; see this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railwaygazette.com\/news\/single-view\/view\/steel-in-the-sand-the-history-of-egypt-and-its-railways.html\">reviewed published by <i>Railway Gazette International<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Goldfinch, author of the excellent book Steel in the Sand, has an unofficial website on Egyptian Railways. The Egyptian Railways Diwan is described as &#8220;a website and blog area intended to fill the need for a space on the internet dedicated to people to share their knowledge, expertise, news, photos and stories about Egyptian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[153],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2737"}],"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=2737"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2741,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2737\/revisions\/2741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}