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• Afghan railway history

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  • Introduction
    1. The Great Game
    2. Merv to Kushka railway
    3. Kabul River railway
    4. Khyber Pass railway
    5. Kabul-Darulaman railway
    6. King Amanullah’s travels
    • Croydon Airport
    • Swindon works
    7. Ambitious proposals
    8. International plans
    9. Soviet extensions
    10. Torghundi and Turkmenistan
    11. Hairatan and the Friendship Bridge
    12. War and reconstruction
    13. Iran to Herat
    14. Hairatan to Mazar-i-Sharif
    15. Herat and beyond
    16. Future plans
  • Industrial railways
    • Coal
    • Cotton
    • Cement
  • Map of railway proposals
  • Fleet list

• Recent Updates

  • Soviet photos of the Hairatan rail link
  • Silk Road by rail
  • Link to the Ministry of Railway Transport of Turkmenistan website
  • Balkh railway video
  • Photos of the Mazar-i-Sharif railway
  • Railway from Hayratan to Mazar-e-sharif
  • Film of the Khyber Pass railway in 1997

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