Pakistan - Rails to the North West Frontier - English • Great Railways 

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Railways are haram

Frankly, what Pakistan needs to do long before it becomes a tourist atrraction is start builidng their OWN locos. Modern ones and electrify its rr network. This is no way a modern country should look like. Get the Chinese to help you, but build up your own infrastucture. You're relying on lines the Brits build a hundred years ago and on stone age trains. This is shameful. Not nostalgic. I am aghast at the backwardness of the rr infrastructure. Doesn't Pakistan know that a modern rr infrastructure is where development starts? India outclasses you by a mile and their rr infrastucture isn't stellar either.

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Yes, the HGS 2-8-0s did resemble the 8Ks to some extent, but they were more to do with BESA rather than the Great Central, and adopted outside Walschaerts valve gear rather than Stephenson.

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We are on 0-1 point...... (lund + phuddi) ha ha haa hahaha.

Mary Jane is stated in retired NWR civil engineer's book 'Couplings To The Khyber' p171 to have been the wife of F L O'Callaghan, engineer of the first railway in the Bolan Pass. Is this correct?

​@@NicholasLera-kd5tjyes it's true still existed

Dear Mr 'Semi-skimmed'. A very interesting comment on my film - my thanks for characterising it so accurately, especially as it was indeed first released on VHS!

This documentary has never been shown on television in any country, except perhaps illegally somewhere. It was released on VHS video in 1995, comprising the 1993 and 1994 footage. Some years later the DVD edition came out whlch included the SPS locomotive on the Attock Bridge recorded in 1997. That is the version posted here.

Wo TB nahi hota tha wo dust se hone wala bimari silcosis tha jo TB k jaise lagta tha us samay utna science devloped nahi tha aur TB maan k ilaaz hota tha maut nischit tha hone par par daily juggry khane se effect kam hota hai

@@jiwanpathak4209 maybe you are right But if you Know Quetta City now in Pakistan was a hill station with very dry climate was ideal for such patients There was Actually Two TB hospitals established. One by Indian Railway and the second was the British Indian Govt. Railway TB centurium was dedicated Only for Railway employees. Now the same building is used as a Women's university.

Faheem bhai golden days of our Railways are long gone. Apni zindagi me Bahawalnagar section bhi wapis active dekhne ko mil gaya to woh bhi ek Miracle se kam nahi hoga!!

Sad to see that YD 522 was standing like there in shed in your video and running fine here in this one

Sir, You have shown a lot of railway history in your videos. It includes many stations, rail tracks, trains, and locomotives that have now become a part of history. But watching this video feels like you have traveled back to the era about which you talk in your videos. Especially the areas of Bolan Pass, Cholistan, and Landi Kotal Sections.

Wonderful to see this excellent documentary and to listen to the impeccable old-school narration. The voice of a professional, expressing the respect and dignity that these old trains and the people who run them deserve.

Frontier mail in Pakistan is called Khayber mail and it's still a mail train with red Boggi for postal dock. Yes the train can resume but Indian politicians and Pakistani Generals are hurdles both taking advantage of situations . An American general asked Mr Jinnah after independence how you want India Pakistan relations Mr Jinnah replied just like America and Canada. But unfortunately Indian politicians and Pakistani generals trained by Britishers never want good relations.

Thank you, Sir, for your kind comments. It was hard work to do but pleasing to see it is appreciated.

Dear Mashooq, Thank you for the 'fabulous' comment! Most generous of you. I am sorry however that what is clearly a favourite line of yours was not featured. My time was limited, and as one gets a better film overall by covering fewer lines in more detail, I decided to go with what my researches had revealed. It is worth bearing in mind also that there was no internet in widespread use at the time (1993/4). But you'll be pleased to know that in the course of my travels I discovered the steam branches out of Malakwal to the Salt Range, also steam in the Irrigation Dept quarries, and made a subsequent trip later in the 90s to film them. The results will appear eventually on Utube, God willing.

Dear 'Sugarmountaincondo'. To pick up on the items you mention; 19:30 steam cranes like this were once commonplace around Britain and its Commonwealth, but have almost entirely been replaced by diesel powered versions as you saw in the meter gauge sequence earlier. It was a real treat to find this steam original in good shape and still in active use. 28:17 The territory of the North West Frontier Province is a semi autonomous zone, between Pakistan and Afghanistan, where the tribal communities rule. All outsiders are escorted by local armed guards, and can only visit in daylight hours, unless invited to stay, in which case they must remain indoors overnight. As for the cadet guard you point out, well, the next generation has to start somewhere, and what better than among a group of seniors in charge of a large group. I doubt his weapon carried live rounds. 35:30 Fort Maude by the road bridge is permanently manned. 40:23 The enthusiastic riders on the front of the locomotive were an ad hoc reaction to the first steam train up the pass for nearly 20 years. The youngsters had never seen a train before, a situation unique to this pioneer run which we recorded. As the scenario was unforeseen, no provision was made to accommodate them with a wagon or flat car. 45:00 The Khyber trains ran with a loco at each end, both facing outwards. So no wye or turn was needed. Some shots in the Khyber section of this film were taken on later trips, to achieve a fuller visual record of the line, hence an unavoidable lack of continuity in places. Thank you for your interest.

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They need camels and b0mbs.

No matter what the minister said, there is indeed a 75km railway line from Hairatan to Mazar-e-Sharif, in northern Afghanistan.

Railways is haram.

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The filming was done in 1993 & 1994, with Attock Bridge in 1997.

Read the introduction on this site, listen to the narration and check the copyright date on the end!

1994

Almost all the material for this film was taken in December 1993 and January 1994. The SGS 0-6-0 locomotive on Attock Bridge was recorded in February 1997. The Khyber sequence is a combination of 3 trips, Dec 1993 as far as Shahgai, and twice in Jan 1994 to Land Kotal; hence the lack of continuity in the consist.

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The context of the commentary is clear enough. The origins of Pakistan's railways in pre-Partition British India, and the reasons for their construction, need to be pointed out to a worldwide audience of Utube viewers who may not have the history of South Asia uppermost in their minds.

​@@NicholasLera-kd5tjhaha yes you are absolutely correct

I put it on my watch later list.

Muslims did layed way before British did in India ...

Filming years were 1993 and 1994, with the Attock Bridge sequence added in 1997.

Thankyou

The location videography took place in 1994 and 1997. The production into a documentary came a few years later. I hope you enjoyed the results. 30 years seems to have passed in the blink of an eye.

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In oil fired fired locomotives there is a tendency for tar residue drawn by the draft from the chimney to accumulate in the boiler tubes so that heat does not transmit properly to the water. When the fireman sees pressure falling he throws sand into the firebox which is drawn through the tubes and scours out the residue. This results in filthy oily black clag spouting from the chineys of oil-fired locos from time to time in the course of a journey.

Filmed in 1994, except Attock Bridge 1997.