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Khost Colliery Tramway - North Western Railway


The 'Khost Colliery', owned by [[North Western Railway]](NWR) opened in 1877 to supply coal for the NWR. The other collieries supplying NWR were the [[Dandot Light Railway|Dandot Colliery]] and the [[Sharigh Colliery]] <ref>[https://books.google.fr/books?id=q4SlCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA281#v=onepage&q&f=false Google Books'The Making of India: The Untold Story of British Enterprise' by Kartar Lalvani; page 281]; Retrieved 24 Nov  2017</ref> 
The 'Khost Colliery' was situated in the 'Khost-Sharigh-Harnai Coal Belt' some 30-40 mile (48-64km) east of [[Quetta]], and at an altitude ofabout 4,000 feet(1,200 metres). These coal mines were approachable from the Sibi-Zardalu section of the NWR <ref>[https://books.google.fr/books?id=24iKabhn4fcC&pg=PA63#v=onepage&q&f=false Google Books 'Mineral wealth' by John Coggin Brown, Abani Kumar Dey, Abani Kumar Dey; page 63]; Retrieved 24 Nov  2017</ref>.

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