{"id":37,"date":"2006-02-01T23:12:42","date_gmt":"2006-02-01T22:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=37"},"modified":"2013-04-24T18:46:14","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T18:46:14","slug":"line-to-khanaqin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/line-to-khanaqin\/","title":{"rendered":"Line to Khanaqin"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just had an e-mail asking:<\/p>\n

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Just wondering if you know when the Baghdad – Kirkuk (passing through Khanaqin) line was built? I’m based in Khanaqin and a local sheihk showed me a lantern from this railway.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

According to Middle East Railways<\/cite> by Hugh Hughes, the metre-gauge line from Baghdad reached Tiaruq on the Persian frontier in January 1919, and was diverted to “a more useful terminus at Khanaqin” in 1922. The Jalula – Kingerban section dates from 1919, and was extended to Tuz Khurmatu (April 1925) and Kirkuk (August 1925). <\/p>\n

It seems the line was taken out of service in 1987, when the standard gauge line from Baiji to Kirkuk was opened. A groundbreaking ceremony had been held in Baiji on February 8 1983, and the ceremonial inauguration was carried out by Minister of Communications Mohammed Hamza Al Zubaidi on November 7 1987. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just had an e-mail asking: Just wondering if you know when the Baghdad – Kirkuk (passing through Khanaqin) line was built? I’m based in Khanaqin and a local sheihk showed me a lantern from this railway. According to Middle East Railways by Hugh Hughes, the metre-gauge line from Baghdad reached Tiaruq on the Persian […]<\/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\/37"}],"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=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2705,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/2705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}