Landi Khana railway station
Landi Khana Railway Station (Pashto: د لنډي خانې د اورګاډي اډه; Urdu: لنڈی خانہ ریلوے اسٹیشن) was a railway station 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]
Landi Khana Railway Station د لنډي خانې د اورګاډي اډه | |||||||||||
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| Coordinates | 34.094969°N 71.137466°E | ||||||||||
| Line(s) | Khyber Pass Railway | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Opened | 23 April 1926 | ||||||||||
| Closed | 15 November 1932 | ||||||||||
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  Landi Khana Railway Station Location within Khyber Pakhtunkhwa  Landi Khana Railway Station Landi Khana Railway Station (Pakistan) | |||||||||||
Notes
- Grantham, Andrew. "Khyber Pass Railway". andrewgrantham.co.uk. Retrieved 4 September 2014.
- Khyber Pass Railway
c. 1930-40s: Landi Khana Railway Station.
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
| External image | |
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 Landi Khana Camp from Jungi Gorge. |
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