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Khyber Railway

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The railway was worked by [[North Western Railway]](NWR) until partition in 1947. Then by Pakistan Railways until closure.
<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khyber_train_safari Wikipedia "Khyber Train Safari"]; Retrieved 12 Dec 2015</ref>
 
==Records==
An on-line search of the [[India Office Records]] (IOR) records held at the [[British Library]] relating to this railway <ref>[http://searcharchives.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=IAMS_VU2 “British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue” - Search]; Retrieved 11 Apr 2016</ref>
gives several entries, the most relevant as follows: -
*L/MIL/7/6643; “Collection 145/106 Construction of Khyber railway.”; 1919-1926 (Three maps)
*L/PS/10/951/2: “File 8929/1920 Pt 3 NW Frontier: Afghanistan and Khyber Railway; HMG's Waziristan policy”; 1922-26
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