{"id":319,"date":"2008-05-22T23:04:44","date_gmt":"2008-05-22T22:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=319"},"modified":"2013-04-24T18:45:34","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T18:45:34","slug":"kuwait-to-build-rail-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/kuwait-to-build-rail-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Kuwait to build rail network?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week a Kuwaiti official has described <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railwaygazette.com\/news_view\/article\/2008\/05\/8465\/kuwait_finalising_ambitious_metro_plans.html\">plans for a 165 km, four-line metro<\/a> to be built within six years. Perhaps now Dubai has one almost finished, everyone wants one?<\/p>\n<p>Not only that, but there will be a 505.5 km rail system, eventually linking Saudi Arabia with Iraq, presumably somewhere near Basra. And it might even have links on to Iran, as well.<\/p>\n<p>There have been rumours in the past of proposals for a railway to get supplies from the docks to US bases in Kuwait, taking lots of lorries off the emirate&#8217;s roads. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week a Kuwaiti official has described plans for a 165 km, four-line metro to be built within six years. Perhaps now Dubai has one almost finished, everyone wants one? Not only that, but there will be a 505.5 km rail system, eventually linking Saudi Arabia with Iraq, presumably somewhere near Basra. And it might [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[52],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319"}],"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=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2663,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions\/2663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}