{"id":54,"date":"2006-12-19T23:51:27","date_gmt":"2006-12-19T22:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=54"},"modified":"2013-04-24T18:45:57","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T18:45:57","slug":"ageless-iraq-1954-steam-on-pathe-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/ageless-iraq-1954-steam-on-pathe-film\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Ageless Iraq&#8217; &#8211; 1954 steam on Pathe film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rainer Fuchs e-mailed with links to two YouTube movies showing a British Pathe film of Iraq in 1954.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3uvocjmEE-E\">Part\u00a01<\/a>\u00a0shows\u00a0one\u00a0of\u00a0the\u00a0Robert Stephenson &#038; Hawthorns\u00a0streamlined\u00a0pacific\u00a0locomotives\u00a0in\u00a0action,\u00a0along\u00a0with\u00a0a steam loco shunting in Basra, assorted\u00a0buses\u00a0and\u00a0some BOAC\u00a0aeroplanes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Hv2esZVkCao\">Part 2<\/a>\u00a0is more about the history. No railway content, but still worth a watch. They don&#8217;t film &#8217;em like that anymore.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/images\/iraq\/iq-pathe-pacific.jpg\" height=\"300\" width=\"400\" alt=\"Steam loco in Iraq\" title=\"Screenshot of British Pathe film of streamlined loco in Iraq\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rainer Fuchs e-mailed with links to two YouTube movies showing a British Pathe film of Iraq in 1954. Part\u00a01\u00a0shows\u00a0one\u00a0of\u00a0the\u00a0Robert Stephenson &#038; Hawthorns\u00a0streamlined\u00a0pacific\u00a0locomotives\u00a0in\u00a0action,\u00a0along\u00a0with\u00a0a steam loco shunting in Basra, assorted\u00a0buses\u00a0and\u00a0some BOAC\u00a0aeroplanes. Part 2\u00a0is more about the history. No railway content, but still worth a watch. They don&#8217;t film &#8217;em like that anymore.<\/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":[78,79],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54"}],"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=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2698,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/2698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}