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The '''Trans Baluchistan, Quetta-Zahidan Railway''' was constructed as part of a strategic military route between India and Persia (now Iran).
The [[North Western Railway]] (NWR) Military Section [[Quetta-Nushki Branch Line]] from [[Quetta]] to [[Nushki]] was opened on November 15, 1905 <ref>[https://archive.org/stream/BombayBarodaAndCentralIndiaRailwaySystem/Bombay_Baroda_And_Central_India_Railway_System#page/n116/mode/1up Administration Report on Railways 1918” page 98 108 (pdf107pdf117)]; Retrieved 1 Dec 2016</ref>.
==History==
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20130122161047/http://pakistaniat.com/2007/07/13/the-trans-baluchistan-railway/ The Trans-Baluchistan Railway] All Things Pakistan July 13, 2007, now an archived website
*[http://odysseuslahori.blogspot.com/2013/01/pilgrimage-to-dalbandin.html Pilgrimage to Dalbandin] by Salman Rashid posted January 2013. The author’s father was an Assistant Engineer with [[North Western Railway]] at Dalbandin from April 1943 to December 1944
===Historical books online===
*[https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000239.0x000148 ''Despatch by Lieutenant-General R. Wapshare, C.B., C.S.I. on the Organization and Working of the East Persian Line of Communications. From 1st April 1918 to 15th January 1919''] British Library India Office Records IOR/L/MIL/17/15/34 on Qatar Digital Library. Includes some general information about the railway from the beginning of the report [https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100030858181.0x00000d digital page 12] and
**[https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100030858181.0x00001f "Appendix 3 – Report on the working of the Nushki Extension Railway from 1st April 1918 to 15th January 1919"], by Colonel Frederick Warner Allum, Engineer-in-Chief, Nushki Extension Railway, dated 6 February 1919. Page 19 of the report, digital page 30.
**[https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100030858181.0x000020 "Appendix 4 – Note on the Field Work of the Nushki Extension (Railway) Reconnaissance, June 1918 to January 1919"], by Major Lewis Egerton Hopkins, Engineer-in-Chief, N. E. Reconnaissance, dated 6 February 1919. Page 20 of the report, digital page 31.
*[http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100026415688.0x000016 ''Persian Baluchistan (including the Sarhad and Persian Mekran) The Quetta-Nushki extension railway'']. File created 8 May 1922. British Library: India Office Records IOR/L/PS/18/C208, on Qatar Digital Library . The pages relating to the railway appear to commence digital page 15.
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