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Date: 2005-05-31
Owner: Gallery Administrator
Size: 202 items (1093 items total)
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Another view of the GS Class 2-8-2 No. 64 at Pakistan Railway Heritage Museum at Golra Junction. Courtesy Faisal Saeed.

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100-year-old hand crane on display at Golra Junction station museum. A sign claimed that it was tested for lifting 508kg weight in 1984. Courtesy Faisal Saeed.

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No. 5734 is Canadian War Department (CWD) 2-8-2 mixed traffic locomotive. It is now preserved at the Golra Junction museum.

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The Golra Junction Railway Station, some 1,994 feet above sea level, is located in the southeast of the Margalla Hills and east of the cradle of Ghandara civilization, the ancient city of Taxila in Pakistan. The station was established in 1882 connecting

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The Pakistan Railway Heritage Museum at Golra Junction.

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The small, stone platform of the Golra railway station and the surrounding area still reminds of the good old days and simple layout especially the majestic banyan trees guarding the main structure from both sides. The trees not only provide the much-need

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CWD class locomotive No. 5109 photographed between Lahore - Lala Musa in November 1969 by K. Courtlie.The locomotive appears to have been equipped with a Geisel ejector at this time. Note the unique smoke stack (chimney). All steam locomotives in Pakist

'Eagle', the oldest surviving locomotive in Pakistan (built in 1876)
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The Char Boorj or Chauburji monument of Lahore. Photograph dates to the 1880s. ()

Bolan Mail hauled by ALP14 class loco, 1976.
Karachi - Rawalpindi/Lahore 'Tezgam Express' hauled by a ALU24 class locomotive.
Peshawar - Quetta 'Quetta Express' hauled by 25 kV class BCU-30 loco, 1988.
Railway Institute, Quetta. William Edge, 1890.
Railway construction crew at Quarantine Island, Suakin. William Edge, 1885.
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Landi Kotal station board. This station, 5km from the Afghanistan border, is the terminus of the Khyber railway and at 1,072m the highest station on that line as well. (Francois Zablot)