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The Bolan Pass railway was completed in 1886 and in 1887 the Khawaja Amran Railway Survey included the Khojak Tunnel and the Chaman Extension Railway.[4] The Khojak Tunnel opened in 1891 and the railway reached Chaman near the Afghan border. By 1905, it was the longest railway under one administration and the strategic railway of the entire Northwest frontier. In 1947, much of the North Western State Railway fell in Pakistan territory domain and became part of the Pakistan Western Railways, while railways in Indian territory became incorporated into the Eastern Punjab Railway.[5]Mergers[edit]The North Western State Railway network was formed by merging several major and minor railways together. These included:Major railways absorbed[edit]Minor railways absorbed[edit]Construction[edit]The North Western State Railway undertook a major railway expansion program, which included:Amritsar\u2013Patti Railway, opened in 1906 and extended to Kasur in 1910[6]Bahawalnagar\u2013Fort Abbas Railway, opened in 1928 and financed by the Princely Bahawalpur StateMari Indus Railway, opened in 1913Bannu Railway, under survey in 1909 but never constructedDandot Light Railway, opened in 1905 to serve the Khewra Salt MineHyderabad\u2013Badin Railway, opened in 1905, dismantled in 1917 and rebuilt in 1922Jacobabad\u2013Kashmore Railway, opened in 1911Mari\u2013Attock Railway, opened in 1891Kotri\u2013Rohri Railway, opened in 1900 following the completion of Kotri Bridge in 1899Khanai\u2013Hindubagh Railway, opened in 1921Khanpur\u2013Chachran Railway, opened in 1911 and financed by the Princely State of BahawalpurKhushalgarh\u2013Kohat\u2013Thal RailwayKhyber Pass Railway, opened in 1925 as a strategic line to AfghanistanLarkana\u2013Jacobabad Light Railway, opened in 1921Mandra\u2013Bhaun Railway, opened in 1915Mushkaf\u2013Bolan RailwayNowshera\u2013Dargai Railway, opened in 1901Patti\u2013Kasur Railway, opened in 1909Sirhind\u2013Rupar Railway, opened in 1927Wazirabad\u2013Multan Railway, opened in 1899Zhob Valley Railway, opened in 1921Rolling stock[edit]  Tank locomotive, built around 1907 for service on the Bol\u0101n Pass.1899 the North Western State Railway owned 602 steam locomotives, 2121 coaches and 10312 goods wagons.[7] In 1906 a steam motor coach from Vulcan Foundry was purchased.[8] By 1936, the rolling stock had increased to 1332 locomotives, 18 railcars, 1494 coaches and more than 30.000 freight wagons.[9]Classification[edit]It was labeled as a Class I railway according to Indian Railway Classification System of 1926.[10][11]See also[edit]References[edit]^ Directory of Railway Officials & Yearbook. Tothill Press. 1954. p.\u00a0114. It comprises the whole of the former North-Western system of British India except the lines in the south-eastern Punjab, now the Eastern Punjab Railway of India.^ ” Administration Report on the Railways in India \u2013 corrected up to 31st March 1918″; Superintendent of Government  Printing,  Calcutta;  page 106; Retrieved 20 Dec 2015^ Institution of Civil Engineers “Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers in Great Britain and Ireland – O’Callaghan, Francis Langford “; Retrieved on 9 Jul 2016^ “The Imperial Gazetteer of India” v. 21, p. 14.; Retrieved on 13 Jul 2016^ Reed, Sir Stanley (1949). The Times of India Directory and Year Book. Times of India Press. Retrieved 26 November 2016. On that day the Indian portion of tile North-Western was constituted into Eastern Punjab Railway, and the parts of the Bengal- Assam in the province of Assam were formed Into Assam Railway.^ ” Administration Report on the Railways in India \u2013 corrected up to 31st March 1918″; Superintendent of Government  Printing,  Calcutta;  page 110; Retrieved 16 Feb 2016^ Evolution of the railway, Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, A. J. Holman & Co., 1899; p. 645.^ “Steam motor coach, N.W.R., India”. Grace’s Guide To British Industrial History. Retrieved 25 May 2022.^ World Survey of Foreign Railways. Transportation Division, Bureau of foreign and domestic commerce, Washington D.C. 1936. p.\u00a0217.^ “Indian Railway Classification”. Retrieved 10 November 2022.^ World Survey of Foreign Railways. Transportation Division, Bureau of foreign and domestic commerce, Washington D.C. 1936. pp.\u00a0210\u2013219.External links[edit]“British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue”  – Search;  Retrieved  30 May 2016“Grace\u2019s Guide”;  Retrieved  30 May 2016“National Archives from  the RAIL collection”;  Retrieved  30 May 2016North Western Railway Magazine – Monthly staff magazine. Some editorial content published in Urdu . No BL holdings. 2 copies (November 1942, December 1945) are held in the Berridge Papers, Cambridge South Asian Archive.Picture of the teachers and students of St. Andrew School, Pakistan Railways (then NWR) at Lahore, set up in the late 19th century panoramio.comBerridge, Percy Stuart Attwood. Couplings to the Khyber: the story of the North Western Railway. Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1969.Terry Case, North Western Railway. Includes a section about Hal Waters (refer photograph album above)“History of Northern Railway”, Northern Railway.Quetta to Lahore by Rail 1925 All Things Pakistan, now an archived website“Breakup of the North Western Railway and the Anglo-Indian community” by Kenneth Hugh Staynor. indiaofthepast.orgImages of British Steam Locomotives used by North Western Railways Ghilzai:panoramio.com (part of this collection)An old photograph of a Railway Inspection trolley with removable sailboard used on NWR Hyderabad-Kotri, Sindh, Pakistan. Ghilzai:panoramio.com (part of this collection)Photograph of Troops travelling by train taken by  Private J W Linley of the 2nd Battalion, The Northamptonshire Regiment compiled whilst serving in India 1923-1938. flickr.com\/photos\/northampton_museumSome railway personnel in 1898. Page 179 Quarterly Civil List for the Punjab: Corrected up to 1st October 1898 Archive.org  "},{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki24\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Enzyklop\u00e4die"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki24\/2020\/05\/25\/north-western-state-railway-wikipedia\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"North Western State Railway – Wikipedia"}}]}]