Khushalgarh-Kohat-Thal Railway

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Khushalgarh-Kohat-Thal Railway
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Line of route
Khushalgarh to Thal
Gauge / mileage
Narrow (2' 6") gauge 92 miles (1905)
Timeline
Key locations
Presidency Bengal
Stations Kohat
System agency
Worked by North Western Railway
How to interpret this infobox

The Khushalgarh-Kohat-Thal Railway was a military, 2ft 6in/762mm narrow gauge(NG) railway which ran close to the border with Afghanistan linking Khushalgarh to Kohat to Thal.

The Kohat-Thal section of 61 miles was converted from NG to broad gauge(BG) in 1902 and merged into the NWR mainline in 1908. [1]

Records

An on-line search of the India Office Records (IOR) records held at the British Library relating to this railway [2] gives several entries, the most relevant as follows: - gives the following:-

  • L/MIL/7/14848; "Collection 335/15 Railway construction: Loi Shilman, Kohat-Thal, Thal-Parachinar lines."; 1908

References

  1. ↑ "Administration Report on the Railways in India – corrected up to 31st March 1918"; Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta; page 128; Retrieved 8 Feb 2016
  2. ↑ “British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue” - Search; Retrieved 3 Apr 2016
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