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==Ropeway==
After the dismantling go of the [[Khyber Ropeway Company|Khyber ropeway]] c 1925, part was re-erected by the Forest Department in three sections of total length 8 miles for bringing firewood to Abbottabad. <ref>[http://pecongress.org.pk/images/upload/books/P17-PAPER130.pdf Paper No 130 "Punjab Building Timbers and Methods of Extraction"] by H M Glover IFS page 123 ''Proceedings of the Punjab Engineering Congress, Lahore, Volume 17, 1929''. Article is pages 119-126b (pdf total 18 pages) pecongress.org.pk. </ref>
==Some notable people of Abbottabad==
*[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Boer_Cemetery_Kakul_Abbottabad.jpg Photograph: Boer Cemetery Kakul Abbottabad] Wikimedia Commons
*Video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaLdPDgTspQ&index=88&list=PLXvkgGofjDzi-fROZSBN3p-CKeaZIc-Ue. Delhi to the North West Frontier (1935)] Film on Abbottabad starts at 9.18 min, commencing with Abbottabad in Mid-Winter. YouTube video, British Film Institute Collection.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20121020043900/http://www.defencejournal.com/dec98/pma.htm Pakistan Military Academy, [Kakul<nowiki>]</nowiki>: [Extract from<nowiki>]</nowiki> ''The Last of the Bengal Lancers''] by Brig (Retd) Francis H B Ingall ''Defence Journal'' December 1998 defencejournal.com, now an archived webpage.*[https://issuu.com/internationalsalvageunion/docs/6grra_2020_journal_100_redacted ''The Journal 6GR'' No 100, 2020] Includes article page 68 (digital page 70) "Slim Sahib" by John Mackinlay. WJ Slim, later Major-General, was posted to the 1st Battalion, 6th Gurkha Rifles at Abbottabad in May 1920. issuu.com. For ease of reading, select Full screen. Download also available.
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