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Pakistan railways map. This is a list of Railway lines in Pakistan. The lines and the stations are owned and operated by Pakistan Railways. Rail lines in Pakistan are divided into main lines and branch lines. [1] [2] [3]
Khyber Mail (Urdu: خیبر میل) is a passenger train operated daily by Pakistan Railways between Karachi and Peshawar. [1] The trip takes approximately 32 hours, to cover a published distance of 1,764 kilometres (1,096 mi), traveling along the entire stretch of the Karachi–Peshawar Railway Line.
Railway costing is the calculation of the variable and fixed costs of rail movements. Variable costs are those that increase or decrease with changes in the traffic volumes or service levels and include fuel, maintenance and train crew costs, for example.
Pakistan Railways [a] is the state-owned railway operator in Pakistan.Founded in 1861 as the North Western State Railway and headquartered in Lahore, it owns 7,789 kilometres (4,840 miles) of operational track across Pakistan, stretching from Peshawar to Karachi, offering both freight and passenger services, covering 482 operational stations across Pakistan.
The Ministry of Railways (Urdu: وزارت ريلوے, Wazarat-e-Railway, abbreviated as MoR) is a ministry of the Government of Pakistan tasked with planning, administrating and overseeing government policies for the development of the national rail network, Pakistan Railways.
Karachi Circular Railway came into being during President Ayub Khan's tenure, who suggested the use of trains as a means for short travel in Karachi. KCR Operations began in 1964 under the administration of Pakistan Railways, with the aims to provide better transportation facilities to Karachi's growing population and outlying surrounding suburban communities.
West of the Quetta Express Line (also called the Rohri–Chaman Railway) is the partly overlapping named Quetta-Taftan Line, the final northern Quetta section is the dual-named section The line climbs through a thin section of the high (red-orange) belt of mountains, coming at closest 62 kilometres northeast of the thermally active volcano, pinpointed, Taftan as to its station at the trunk ...
Shalimar Express currently consists of seven economy, two AC lower, one parlour car, one dining car, one power van and one luggage van coaches. The train now covers the 1,286 kilometres (799 mi) distance from Karachi to Lahore in 19 hours. Shalimar Express was the first ever all air-conditioned train to run on the Pakistan Railway network.