Landi Khana railway station

Landi Khana Railway Station د لنډي خانې د اورګاډي اډه
General information
Coordinates	34.094969°N 71.137466°E / 34.094969; 71.137466
Line(s)	Khyber Pass Railway
History
Opened	23 April 1926
Closed	15 November 1932
Services
Preceding station Pakistan Railways Following station Torra Tigga towards Peshawar City Khyber Pass Railway (defunct) Terminus
Location Landi Khana Railway Station Location within Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Show map of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Landi Khana Railway Station Landi Khana Railway Station (Pakistan) Show map of Pakistan

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.[1] The railway connecting the station to nearby Landi Kotal was closed on 15 December 1932, at the request of the Afghan government.[2]

See also

• List of railway stations in Pakistan
• Pakistan Railways

Notes

1. Grantham, Andrew (2 December 2012). "Khyber Pass Railway". andrewgrantham.co.uk. Retrieved 4 September 2014.
2. Khyber Pass Railway

c. 1930-40s: Landi Khana Railway Station.

Further reading

• Lawrence Saunders; S. R. Blundstone (1926). The Railway engineer. Retrieved 3 February 2012.
• 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.

External links

External image
Landi Khana Camp from Jungi Gorge.

34°07′N 71°06′E