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==Transport Links==
==Transport Links==
Landi Kotal was the last station on the Khyber Pass Railway route from Peshawar. See [http://irfca.org/articles/khyber-pass-railway.html Khyber Pass Railway]irfca.org
Landi Kotal was the last station on the Khyber Pass Railway route from Peshawar. See [http://irfca.org/articles/khyber-pass-railway.html Khyber Pass Railway] irfca.org
 


==External links==
==External links==
*[http://jang.com.pk/thenews/mar2008-weekly/nos-02-03-2008/foo.htm#1 British era cemeteries in the Khyber Pass, including that at Landi Kotal] jang.com.pk  March 2008.  
*[http://jang.com.pk/thenews/mar2008-weekly/nos-02-03-2008/foo.htm#1 British era cemeteries in the Khyber Pass, including that at Landi Kotal] jang.com.pk  March 2008.  
*Dr Ali Jan's [http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pakwgw/british_cemeteries_fata_landi_kotal.html Landi Kotal Cemetery, Khyber Pass]
*Dr Ali Jan's [http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pakwgw/british_cemeteries_fata_landi_kotal.html Landi Kotal Cemetery, Khyber Pass]
*Randolph Bezzant Holmes Photographs. Duke University Libraries (retrieved 29 May 2014)
**[http://exhibits.library.duke.edu/exhibits/show/holmes/http---example-com-exhibits-sh/item/17651 Afghan War Series 1919. Print 70. Landi Kotal and tribal villages]. 
The last British military post in the Khyber Pass before the Afghan border, about 30 miles west of Peshawar
**[http://exhibits.library.duke.edu/exhibits/show/holmes/http---example-com-exhibits-sh/item/17921 Afghan War Series 1919. Print 7. Camp at Landi Kotal. Left side of panorama]. [http://exhibits.library.duke.edu/exhibits/show/holmes/http---example-com-exhibits-sh/item/17931 Afghan War Series 1919. Print 7a. Camp at Landi Kotal. Right side of panorama]. 
Prints 7 and 7a form a panorama of the British camp at Landi Kotal, the highest elevation in the Khyber Pass and the western-most portion of the Pass held by the British. The Third Anglo-Afghan War started here in May 1919.
*[http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/search_object_details.aspx?objectid=1498616&partid=1&searchText=Lynch+album&fromADBC=ad&toADBC=ad&numpages=10&orig=%2fresearch%2fsearch_the_collection_database.aspx&currentPage=3    Photograph of of the army camp at  Landi Kotal 1920s] (click on image to enlarge), from the [http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/search_results.aspx?orig=%2Fresearch%2Fsearch_the_collection_database.aspx&searchText=Lynch+album&fromDate=&fromadbc=ad&toDate=&toadbc=ad&x=14&y=16 Lynch Album], British Museum. The photographer was Hugh Dermot Lynch who served with the [[North Western Railway]] as a Transportation Officer
*[http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/search_object_details.aspx?objectid=1498616&partid=1&searchText=Lynch+album&fromADBC=ad&toADBC=ad&numpages=10&orig=%2fresearch%2fsearch_the_collection_database.aspx&currentPage=3    Photograph of of the army camp at  Landi Kotal 1920s] (click on image to enlarge), from the [http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/search_results.aspx?orig=%2Fresearch%2Fsearch_the_collection_database.aspx&searchText=Lynch+album&fromDate=&fromadbc=ad&toDate=&toadbc=ad&x=14&y=16 Lynch Album], British Museum. The photographer was Hugh Dermot Lynch who served with the [[North Western Railway]] as a Transportation Officer
*From a collection of postcards at the ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, sent by F.G. Prew, a soldier, probably in the [[56th Regiment of Foot| 2nd Battalion, Essex Regiment]] to Adolf Feller of Switzerland.  
*From a collection of postcards at the ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, sent by F.G. Prew, a soldier, probably in the [[56th Regiment of Foot| 2nd Battalion, Essex Regiment]] to Adolf Feller of Switzerland.  

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Alternative spelling Landikotal

Landi Kotal
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Place Name: Landi Kotal
State/Province: Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA)
Country: Pakistan
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Landi Kotal was the last station on the Khyber Pass Railway route from Peshawar. See Khyber Pass Railway irfca.org

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