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Pakistan: Khyber Pass Railway

Categories: South Asia, Pakistan, Citizen Media, History

The Khyber Pass is the stuff of colonial stories and legend. Light Within [1] on the Khyber Pass Railway. “Construction restarts in 1920 and the section from Jamrud to Landi Kotal, opens on November 3, 1925. Next day on November 4, Mrs. Victor Bailey, wife of the British engineer entrusted with the construction of Khyber Railway drives the first train through Khyber Pass.”