Landi Khana railway station
Former railway station in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
Preceding station | Pakistan Railways | Following station | ||
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Torra Tigga towards Peshawar City | Khyber Pass Railway (defunct) | Terminus |
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Landi Khana Railway Station Location within Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Show map of Khyber PakhtunkhwaLandi Khana Railway Station Landi Khana Railway Station (Pakistan) Show map of Pakistan |
Landi Khana Railway Station (Pashto: د لنډي خانې د اورګاډي اډه; Urdu: لنڈی خانہ ریلوے اسٹیشن) is a disused railway station in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It is located near the Pakistani town of Torkham, on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. It was established on 23 April 1926 during British rule.[1] The railway connecting the station to nearby Landi Kotal was closed on 15 December 1932, at the request of the Afghan government.[2]
See also
- List of railway stations in Pakistan
- Pakistan Railways
Notes
Further reading
- Lawrence Saunders; S. R. Blundstone (1926). The Railway engineer. Retrieved 3 February 2012.
- Railway age. Simmons-Boardman Pub. Co. 1926. Retrieved 3 February 2012.
- Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) (1926). Minutes of proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers. The Institution. Retrieved 3 February 2012.
- M. B. K. Malik (1962). Hundred years of Pakistan railways: Pakistan Western Railway, 1861-1961; Pakistan Eastern Railway, 1862-1962. Ministry of Railways and Communications, Railway Board, Govt. of Pakistan. Retrieved 3 February 2012.
- Dale Hoiberg (2000). Students' Britannica India. Popular Prakashan. pp. 237–. ISBN 978-0-85229-760-5. Retrieved 3 February 2012.
- The railway gazette. January 1962. Retrieved 3 February 2012.
- Guy Arnold (1 May 2000). World strategic highways. Taylor & Francis. pp. 215–. ISBN 978-1-57958-098-8. Retrieved 3 February 2012.
- E. W. C. Sandes (1935). The military engineer in India: by E. W. C. Sandes. Institution of royal engineers. Retrieved 3 February 2012.
- Clarence Winchester; Cecil John Allen (1935). Railway wonders of the world. The Amalgamated press limited. Retrieved 3 February 2012.
- Victor Bayley (1939). Permanent way through the Khyber. Jarrolds. Retrieved 3 February 2012.
- Christensen, J. (1926), The New Afghanistan, The Muslim World, 16: 349–356. doi:10.1111/j.1478-1913.1926.tb00635.x.
- H. E. Crocker, The khyber pass, Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society. Vol. 18, Iss. 3, 1931. doi:10.1080/03068373108725167.
External links
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Landi Khana Camp from Jungi Gorge. |
34°07′N 71°06′E / 34.117°N 71.100°E / 34.117; 71.100
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Khyber Pass Railway
- Peshawar City
- Peshawar Cantonment
- Jamrud
- Bagiarari
- Medanak
- Chaghi
- Shahgai
- Kata Kushta
- Zintara
- Sultan Khel
- Landi Kotal
- Torra Tigga
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