Photographs

Kabul Mashin Khana railway

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A 1916 photo of the narrow gauge railway at the workshops in Kabul:

A view on the storage yard for firewood, which is mainly used to run the steam engines of the mashinkhana. In the foreground a light railroad track with a wagon, loaded with wood. In the background two derricks with beam balances to weight the delivered wood.

Same photo as here.

Bridge opens

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Bridge takes the Hairatan to Mazar-i-Sharif railway over the new canal.

Uzbekistan sends humanitarian aid

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Torghundi rail terminal in 1960

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A photo of a page of an unknown bilingual book showing photos of the “railhead at Torghandi” and the construction of a “Torghundi-Kandahar concrete highway”. Someone has added “1960” to the electronic image; presumably the date of the book.

The railway across the Afghan border from the USSR (now Turkmenistan) might have been built as part of the USSR – Herat – Kandahar road project.

Anyone know the name of the book?