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• Afghan railway history

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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. Herat and beyond
    11. Future plans
  • Map of railway proposals
  • Fleet list

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  • Kabul railway coach photo
  • “The tribes were very restive and hostile”
  • Cost of road transport
  • Visit of their Majesties the King and Queen of Afghanistan to Swindon Works
  • Mazar-i-Sharif line construction work

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  • Contracts March 2010 March 13, 2010
    Australia: Interfleet Technology is to provide operations advice for the development of the 13 km Gold Coast Rapid Transit line. Morocco: Telvent is to supply its SmartMobility technology to give the future light rail system in Rabat priority over road traffic. Russia: RZD’s TransWoodService will sell its Tikhoretskaya, Tomsk, Orenburg and Zelenodolsk s […]
  • Train energy consumption standards published March 12, 2010
    INTERNATIONAL: A Technical Recommendation to enable benchmarking of locomotive and rolling stock energy consumption has been published by UIC and UNIFE. The total net energy consumed at the pantograph or from the fuel tank is calculated over a predefined service profile based on the operation of the train or a standardised profile for a particular service ca […]
  • London - Birmingham starts high speed railway to the north March 11, 2010
    UK: Transport Secretary Lord Adonis published the government's high speed rail strategy on March 11, setting out details of a planned 400 km/h high speed railway between London and Birmingham which could open by 2026 as the first part of a Y-shaped network serving Leeds and Manchester. The route developed in detail by High Speed Two Ltd starts at London […]

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