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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
  • Map of railway proposals
  • Fleet list

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  • Photos of derelict Khyber Pass railway
  • History of aviation in Afghanistan
  • Italian engineers and electrification plan
  • Kandahar and Jalalabad studies
  • Memorandum for Kandahar and Jalalabad railways

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  • SNIT makes rail a priority July 30, 2010
    FRANCE: With the aim of producing a definitive document by the end of this year, on July 12 the government published for consultation its SNIT transport infrastructure plan that should see €170bn invested over the next 20 to 30 years. Allocated 51·9% of this total, rail is the top priority with 4000 km of new construction expected to divert 2·5 billion p […]
  • Deutsche Bahn to run ICE3 to Britain this year July 29, 2010
    EUROPE: 'This autumn we will send an ICE3 test train through the tunnel beneath the English Channel as part of our preparations for possible train service to London', Deutsche Bahn Chairman & CEO Dr Rüdiger Grube said during his presentation of the German national rail company's half-year results on July 28. Grube said DB is also in talks […]
  • NS agrees to sell Strukton July 29, 2010
    NETHERLANDS: State railway holding company NS has reached an agreement to sell its civil engineering subsidiary Strukton to Oranjewoud, which is active in the infrastructure, water, safety and sports sectors in Europe and the USA. NS felt there was insufficient synergy between its other activities and Strukton, which has operating businesses covering PPP, f […]

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