Loi Shilman Railway

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The Loi Shilman Railway was a proposal to construct a military narrow gauge(NG) NG railway extending into Afghanistan as far as the Shilman Ghakki pass. It was one of two proposals: - the other being the Kabul River Railway, a proposal following the narrow Kabul River gorge to Smatsai, below the fort at Dakka. [1] [2]

Neither of these proposals were adopted.

Records

An on-line search of the India Office Records (IOR) records held at the British Library relating to this railway [3] 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

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