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*buisness train *. (khi to isb).jis main hay business class or economy class. buisnness class main milta hay app PC ki serving or WIFI freee(suna hai )//
** night coach** (non stop) khi to lhr...
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Wow, thanks guys. So much of info and so much of videos. I need some time to go through that. Iss baat pe aap kee khidmat main pesh kerte hai Sohail Rana kee khubsoorat dhun titled Khyber Mail
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Have you seen Ishrat Hashmi playing ‘Masi Khyber Mail’ in drama Hawain? 
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Have you seen Ishrat Hashmi playing 'Masi Khyber Mail' in drama Hawain? :)
No I have not, but I love to. She was an amazing actress. You think you can find a video?
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(watch from 1:25)
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Interesting article.
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^ nice article. Allah Karay khawaja sahab hold on to his words and give this dying mode of transportation another life
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Do go through this interesting feature on Trains by Salman Rashid
Salman Rashid: Last of Pakistan Railway
The Third Class compartments may never have been something to get excited about, but the second (non-a/c) and the air conditioned sleeper cars were very good. Time was when the toilets in the Khyber Mail sleeper car had showers! MY favourite fantasy these days is to relive that long lost glory: getting on the south-bound Khyber Mail at Lahore and as the train draws past Jungshahi east of Karachi, getting into the toilet to shave and shower. Ah, what incredible luxury that was and I still feel myself doing it when I think of it hard enough.
And the Tezgam (lovely name) that never, never, never was late. If I was standing beside the track and a train went by, I could tell it was the Tezgam simply from its breathtaking speed. My childhood memories of this train thundering into Lahore station platform 4 where I stood with an older cousin to receive relatives coming down from the northwest, have a steam engine hauling. As it entered the vast corrugated iron roofed platform, the ‘woof-chug’ of the steam in the flues and smoke stack would suddenly be magnified by the closed space and for my childish mind this was the greatest sound and the most wondrous sight in the whole world.
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This is about the history of railways in Sindh
Salman Rashid: Alas, Sindh is now Lost: Indus Valley State Railway
The story of the first railway track in Pakistan begins in December 1853 when Lord Dalhousie, Governor-General of India, approved the line from Karachi to Kotri. Orders went out to Bartle Frere, Commissioner Sindh, to proceed with the project. Now, Frere had a favourite engineer, a young Lieutenant Chapman of the Corps of Engineers who he wished to assign to the survey of the line. When summons reached him to report to Karachi, the man was busy aligning a road in the Lakki Hills south of Sehwan.
It was evening when orders reached Chapman, but steamers on the Indus did not ply at night. Knowing the standard procedures but in a hurry to be present in Karachi in the morning, Chapman forced the master of his boat to press on into the dark. The steamer hit a submerged rock and sank, drowning Chapman and twenty-seven others. And the Scinde Railway, as it was to be called, was put on hold as the country headed into turmoil.
With the Mutiny of 1857 behind them and the subcontinent firmly in their grip, British authorities finally began work on the line out of Karachi in 1858. Three years later, in May 1861, it had reached Kotri. But for the blistering summer heat in the stony wastes north of Karachi, the work was easy and certainly not the kind to set the pace for things to come.
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Time was when the toilets in the Khyber Mail sleeper car had showers! .
Oh yes I remember that. We traveled in such sleepers few times. It was so private and fun
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There was time when tunnels between Kotri to Sehwan were intact and when train passed through the tunnels it was all dark.. I think the constructors have destroyed all those tunnels now and probably one can find some tunnels in Balochistan's railway tracks