{"id":35,"date":"2006-01-24T23:46:27","date_gmt":"2006-01-24T22:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=35"},"modified":"2013-04-24T18:46:14","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T18:46:14","slug":"mark-1-in-bahrain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/mark-1-in-bahrain\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark 1 in Bahrain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bahrain doesn&#8217;t have any railways &#8211; unless you know better? &#8211; and is not the most obvious place to find an ex-British Rail mark I buffet car. But there is one, and David Kelso took these pictures in March 2003. According to David <q>It is being used as a restaurant. As you would expect I ate in it. The seating area has been left very much as it was but the buffet counter end has been modified as a servery rather than a stand up counter as it originally was.<\/q><\/p>\n<p>Does anyone know what sort of MkI it is, or how it got to the middle east &#8211; and why?! I guess the strange construction on the end is meant to look like a steam loco. <\/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, photographed by David Kelso]\"\/><\/a><\/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, photographed by David Kelso]\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bahrain doesn&#8217;t have any railways &#8211; unless you know better? &#8211; and is not the most obvious place to find an ex-British Rail mark I buffet car. But there is one, and David Kelso took these pictures in March 2003. According to David It is being used as a restaurant. As you would expect I [&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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35"}],"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=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2706,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions\/2706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}