Landi Khana railway station

Former railway station in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Landi Khana Railway Station (Pashto: د لنډي خانې د اورګاډي اډه; Urdu: لنڈی خانہ ریلوے اسٹیشن) is a disused railway station in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It is located near the Pakistani town of Torkham, on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. It was established on 23 April 1926 during British rule.^[1] The railway connecting the station to nearby Landi Kotal was closed on 15 December 1932, at the request of the Afghan government.^[2]

See also

• List of railway stations in Pakistan
• Pakistan Railways

Notes

1. Grantham, Andrew (2 December 2012). "Khyber Pass Railway". andrewgrantham.co.uk. Retrieved 4 September 2014.
2. Khyber Pass Railway

c. 1930-40s: Landi Khana Railway Station.

Further reading

• Lawrence Saunders; S. R. Blundstone (1926). The Railway engineer. Retrieved 3 February 2012.
• Railway age. Simmons-Boardman Pub. Co. 1926. Retrieved 3 February 2012.
• Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) (1926). Minutes of proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers. The Institution. Retrieved 3 February 2012.
• M. B. K. Malik (1962). Hundred years of Pakistan railways: Pakistan Western Railway, 1861-1961; Pakistan Eastern Railway, 1862-1962. Ministry of Railways and Communications, Railway Board, Govt. of Pakistan. Retrieved 3 February 2012.
• Dale Hoiberg (2000). Students' Britannica India. Popular Prakashan. pp. 237–. ISBN 978-0-85229-760-5. Retrieved 3 February 2012.
• The railway gazette. January 1962. Retrieved 3 February 2012.
• Guy Arnold (1 May 2000). World strategic highways. Taylor & Francis. pp. 215–. ISBN 978-1-57958-098-8. Retrieved 3 February 2012.
• E. W. C. Sandes (1935). The military engineer in India: by E. W. C. Sandes. Institution of royal engineers. Retrieved 3 February 2012.
• Clarence Winchester; Cecil John Allen (1935). Railway wonders of the world. The Amalgamated press limited. Retrieved 3 February 2012.
• Victor Bayley (1939). Permanent way through the Khyber. Jarrolds. Retrieved 3 February 2012.
• Christensen, J. (1926), The New Afghanistan, The Muslim World, 16: 349–356. doi:10.1111/j.1478-1913.1926.tb00635.x.
• H. E. Crocker, The khyber pass, Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society. Vol. 18, Iss. 3, 1931. doi:10.1080/03068373108725167.

External links

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