{"id":284692,"date":"2010-02-05T14:54:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T19:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6760875.post-5271084207679815830"},"modified":"2010-02-05T15:29:31","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T20:29:31","slug":"museum-cairo-railway-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/284692","title":{"rendered":"Museum:  Cairo Railway Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.almasryalyoum.com\/en\/news\/museum-lost-its-track\">Al Masry Al Youm<\/a> (Hazem Zohny)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A week ago, an informal group of Egyptian train lovers attempted to bring the deteriorating state of a railway museum to the attention of the authorities, bombarding them with faxes highlighting the museum&#8217;s condition. Al-Masry Al-Youm decided to investigate the situation of Egypt&#8217;s forgotten railway treasures.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> <\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It all started with the idea of linking India and Europe. The year was 1833, and Mohamed Ali Pasha was considering a suggestion by the British to build a railway from Suez to Ain Shams. The idea was abandoned, but a little over twenty years later, the first railway in Africa connected Cairo and Alexandria.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> <\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The events that led up to such a momentous achievement and the ones that followed it, as the history of Egypt&#8217;s railway, is a matter of varying concern for the little known Railway Museum at Cairo\u2019s central train station, at Ramsis Square.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> <\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Why varying? Perhaps more than any other Egyptian museum, this is one that appears to have perfected the ability to simultaneously impress, and depress.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Egyptology News Blog, Andie Byrnes<img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/6760875-5271084207679815830?l=egyptology.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al Masry Al Youm (Hazem Zohny) A week ago, an informal group of Egyptian train lovers attempted to bring the deteriorating state of a railway museum to the attention of the authorities, bombarding them with faxes highlighting the museum&#8217;s condition. Al-Masry Al-Youm decided to investigate the situation of Egypt&#8217;s forgotten railway treasures. It all started [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}