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  • Introduction
    1. The Great Game
    2. Kabul River, Khyber Pass
    3. Kabul-Darulaman railway
    4. King Amanullah’s travels
    5. Ambitious proposals
    6. International plans
    7. Soviet rail extensions
    8. War and reconstruction
    9. Iran to Herat
    10. Hairatan to Mazar-i-Sharif
    11. Herat and beyond
    12. Future plans
  • Industrial railways
    • Coal
    • Cotton
    • Cement
  • Map of railway proposals
  • Fleet list

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  • Gateway to Central Asia
  • China and Afghanistan
  • MCC to build Kunduz - Jalalabad railway
  • Problems with transport in Uzbekistan
  • ECO train returns

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    EUROPE: The long-planned restructuring of Eurostar, the cross-Channel high speed rail operator, was formally completed on September 1, the company has confirmed. The restructuring has seen the unincorporated tri-national partnership under which Eurostar was created replaced by Eurostar International, a conventional three-way joint venture with its own staff […]
  • Balfour Beatty acquires power supply business September 2, 2010
    USA: Balfour Beatty’s US rail division has completed the purchase of Reuel Inc’s Traction Power division for an undisclosed sum, Balfour Beatty Rail Inc announced on August 30. Based in Goldsboro, North Carolina, Reuel is a specialist manufacturer of electrical components and power supply equipment. The Traction Power business unit focuses on producing e […]
  • Wires going up in Toshkent September 2, 2010
    UZBEKISTAN: Last month UTY completed electrification of the 114 km Toshkent Tukimachi – Angren line, the last diesel-worked route in the Toshkent area. Wiring was undertaken at a cost of US$85·4m funded by UTY and foreign sources including Germany’s KfW and the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development. Russian firm NPO Mostovik provided two bridges, a […]

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