{"id":449,"date":"2008-10-19T19:00:05","date_gmt":"2008-10-19T18:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=449"},"modified":"2013-04-24T18:43:56","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T18:43:56","slug":"maqil-light-railway-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/maqil-light-railway-pictures\/","title":{"rendered":"Maqil light railway pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/images\/rail\/iq-maqil-light-railway-small.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/rail\/iq-maqil-light-railway-small-300x149.jpg\" alt=\"Maqil light railway\" title=\"Magil light railway\" width=\"500\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-447\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rainer Fuchs, who has a comprehensive website on <a href=\"http:\/\/fuchs-online.com\/iraq\/\">Iraqi railway stamps<\/a>, has found some wonderful vintage stereoscopic photographs of the Magil &#8211; Basra railway and the Magil light railway.<\/p>\n<p>They are labelled with the name of Sunbeam Tours, who appear to have been at 37 Bedford Street, Strand, London WC2.<\/p>\n<p>Maqil\/Magil is near Basra, and seems to have a had a complicated mix of 2&#8242;, 2&#8217;6&#8243; and metre gauge railways from World War I onwards.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_448\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/images\/rail\/iq-maqil-basra-railway-small.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-448\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/images\/rail\/iq-maqil-basra-railway-small-300x148.jpg\" alt=\"Maqil - Basra railway\" title=\"Magil - Basra railway\" width=\"300\" height=\"148\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-448\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-448\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maqil - Basra railway<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rainer Fuchs, who has a comprehensive website on Iraqi railway stamps, has found some wonderful vintage stereoscopic photographs of the Magil &#8211; Basra railway and the Magil light railway. They are labelled with the name of Sunbeam Tours, who appear to have been at 37 Bedford Street, Strand, London WC2. Maqil\/Magil is near Basra, and [&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],"tags":[20,63,71,82,109],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449"}],"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=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2649,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions\/2649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}