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. The railway connecting the station to nearby
Landi Kotal was closed on 15 December 1932, at the request of the
Afghan government.
See also
Notes
Further reading
- 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.
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