A Radio Bayanshamal video about Hairatan. It is in Pashto (and is also available in Dari) so I don’t know what the commentary says, but it has some footage of TEM2-hauled freight trains and tank wagons.
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Photos of the Mazar-i-Sharif railway
“Rebuilding Afghanistan’s transport and energy network” is a September 2011 gallery of really excellent photographs of the new railway to Mazar-i-Sharif, taken by Jawad Jalali of the Afghan Eyes photo agency.
Photo 32 shows a building which looks distinctly like a passenger station.
Hairatan railway photos
A couple of photographs of Hairatan which the Asian Development Bank has uploaded to Flickr. They are dated 27 August 2011 – and I think they might have the captions the wrong way round.
“A private wagon enters from Uzbekistan to the border of Afghanistan Hiaratan in the new rail way line.”
“Main station of Rail way in Hairatan border between Uzbekistan and Afghanistan new rail way line. “
Border checks at Hayratan
Members of the Afghan National Border Police listen to an instructor as they search locomotive TEM2 6773 near the Hayratan border crossing point (Photo: DVIDS, 2011-01-10).
Ready, CET, Go! A new training program begins at Afghan border
HAIRATAN, Afghanistan — Recently, soldiers of the Military Police “Mohawk” Platoon of 10th Mountain Division’s 1st Brigade Special Troops Battalion in conjunction with the Border Management Task Force trained members of Afghan National Border Police for a Contraband Enforcement Team at the Friendship Bridge border crossing in northern Afghanistan.
Source: DVIDS press release, 2011-01-16