I have the honour of being associated with Ashfaq Khattak while he was DDS Karachi. He was instrumental in displaying a MG Steam Engine at Karachi cantt railway station. It was my wish that making this engine work would be an added feature. Ashfaq sahib got it done. A remarkable man.
گھونے والا نلکا جھنڈ ماڑی انڈس پائی خیل میانوالی سٹی اور کندیاں میں میں لگے ہوے تھے دوسرا اس دوہ کی جو۔اسپشل ٹرین چیرمین کی أتی تھی سلون أواری ہوٹل سے کم نہین تھی ہمارے اسٹشن پر ہر سال تین چار دن روکتی تھے انسپکشن کیلے فیکڑیوں کے ساتھ ریلولے کے اگریمنٹ تھے سیمنٹ اور کھاد و پھتر مال گاڑیوں پر بہت زیادہ جاتا تھا چیرمین وساتھ علمہ فیکڑی کے بورڈ ہاوس میں ٹھرتے وہ بھی پانچ تاروں والے ہوٹل سے کم نہین تھا یہ گولا بھی کئی سال تک دیکھا ھے کیا کمال کی منصوبہ بندی تھی
This was one of your most interesting accounts and the pictures almost bring to life a bygone era. I wonder where Razi saab and Khattack saab are now - they are real hero's!
Wonderful story of the railway museum Golra lots of respect for the divisional engineers Ashfaq khattak and Hamid Razi of the Pakistan railways also for you for day tripping on the now defunct lines in the eighties
Very nice episode. Glad to see people like Mr.Khattak who still are intersted in saving heritage. But feel sad so much of old railway items are disposed in pieces.
گولڑا ریلولے اسٹشن ایک تو گولڑا شریف مزار پر بہت زیادہ لوگ جاتے ہیں دوسرا کام کاج سیاحت علاج اور پڑھائی کیلے تو بجاۓ اب پندی جانے مسافروں کی اکثریت گولڑا اتر جاتی ھے اور یہاں ادھے گھنٹے میں سلام اباد اشفاق خٹک میرا خیال ھے جنرل منیجر بھی بنا ھے ترقی کر کے میں خود۔اسلام اباد سے واپس پر بسٹشن پہ کئی کئی گھنٹے گزراتا ہوں لوکیشن میضوم اور ساتھ بوڑ کے درجن بھر پرانے درخت کیا خوبصورتی ھے
Well done Khattak Sahib & Raazi Sahib & Salman Sahib for preserving & recounting history Next visit to isb Insha'Allah will visit Golra I am looking for a foldable drinking glass holder which was installed in NWR trains in the past to complete my surahi carrying wooden frame which travellers used on trains in the old days And some enterprising traveller had deprived the railways of cup holder and fitted it on the surahi carrier frame which I bought from Nursery but when it was sent for lacquering in Gizri the mistry in turn deprived me of the glass holder I never should have sent it for polishing
Oh, what a memory you have brought ack. I don't think I saw the glass holders after the late 1960s. And terribly sorry to hear the mistry appropriated your holder.
Very engrossing. Murshad you should visit the railway museum in New Delhi. You would love it. Khemkaran ball machine was quite interesting. Incidentally the town was properly stripped of everything during Pak occupation in 1965. Even the ‘chaugaath’ of houses and shops were looted and removed.
Thank you, Man Aman. I was 13 years old in 1965. Our neighbour's son in law, a Frontier Force major, was on this sector. We were invited to visit and one day my brother and I and a couple of other chaps were in Khem Kharan. I recall the railway station and also all the ruined houses without chaugaaths. We were taken into a basement where uniformed body lay. Our guides were not sure if it was an Indian or a Pakistanis soldier. It had completely rotted.
Thank you very much, Zahid Rizwan. My love for all things railways goes back to my childhood living in Durand Road, Lahore where, in the dead of a winter morning, I could hear the wheezing of steam locos in the Garhi Shahu loco shed.
Railway academy in Walton is also worth visiting. There is a hall where all railway systems working models are on display. Ball token machine working is taught to new engineers during training.
Very informative sir. There was a library in Railways HQ ( I hope it is still there). I saw many books related to railways history there. If possible have a visit. This may give you more info about railways and we may get some beautiful vlogs or great book.
Good news is, this Neil's token is still in use on Railway line from Rawalpindi to Peshawar. Bad News! its days are numbered.If youwant to witness the history go to any station on this line and watch it yourself before it is reduced to tales.
Sir Jodhpur state had its own railways. Known as Jodhpur state railways. Maharana/ Rana prefix is Mostly for Mewar ( Udaipur ). Rest of the Rajput royals have Maharaja in Rajasthan. When Jinnah sb went to meet Maharaja of Jodhpur to persue him about not to get his state annexed to India rather get autonomy with Pakistan or remain independent, his arguments had quote " His highness you have such self reliance that you have your own railways why you need to get annexed with India."
Good that the Maharaja of Jodhpur remained where he was or that railway too would have vanished. The JSR was, I think, later called JBR. I saw a carriage back in 1987 with this legend. It stood for Jodhpur Bikaner Railway.
@@salmanrashid8880 Sir Its good that Jodhpur remained with us but whether Maharaja wanted it or not is history. I think Jinnah sb was successful in his persuasion but local population pressure and Sardar Vallabh Patel political dynamics reversed it and definitely this happened to be good for region. Partition of Punjab we have more information but partition of Thar dessert also has sad stories in history.
