Pakistan Railways

First line opened 1861; first electrification 1966. The network comprises all lines of the former North Western Railway of India that were within the state of Pakistan (west) on partition in 1947. Until 1974 the network was known as the Pakistan Western Railway, to distinguish it from the then Pakistan ...

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