{"id":324,"date":"2008-06-15T12:08:35","date_gmt":"2008-06-15T11:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=324"},"modified":"2013-04-24T18:43:57","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T18:43:57","slug":"railways-in-bahrain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/railways-in-bahrain\/","title":{"rendered":"Railways in Bahrain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railwaygazette.com\/nc\/news\/single-view\/view\/bahrain-investor-buys-freightliner.html\" title=\"Bahrain investor buys Freightliner: Railway Gazette International\">news story from last Friday<\/a> (13 June 2008) was that a Bahrain-based investor has bought UK-based freight operator <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freightliner.co.uk\">Freightliner<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Which indirectly raises the question of whether there are any railways in Bahrain? As far as I know there aren&#8217;t, but rather bizarrely thay have an ex-British Rail Mark I coach in use as a restaurant!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/images\/rail\/bh-mki-coach1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/images\/rail\/bh-mki-coach1-small.jpg\" height=\"131\" width=\"200\" alt=\"[An ex-British Railways mark One coach in Bahrain]\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southernelectric.org.uk\/preservation\/preservationbr.html\">Southern Electric Group<\/a>, buffet car 69338 from 4Big unit 2206\/7054 <q>is the station restaurant for the Gulf Corporation in Bahrain.<\/q><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/images\/rail\/bh-mki-coach2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/images\/rail\/bh-mki-coach2-small.jpg\" height=\"131\" width=\"200\" alt=\"[An ex-British Railways mark One coach in Bahrain]\"\/><\/a><br \/><span class=\"footnote\">Photos by David Kelso, March 2003<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A news story from last Friday (13 June 2008) was that a Bahrain-based investor has bought UK-based freight operator Freightliner. Which indirectly raises the question of whether there are any railways in Bahrain? As far as I know there aren&#8217;t, but rather bizarrely thay have an ex-British Rail Mark I coach in use as a [&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":[19],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324"}],"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=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2659,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions\/2659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}