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A fishplate joins two lengths of track. A fishplate, splice bar or joint bar is a metal connecting plate used to bolt the ends of two rails into a continuous track. The name is derived from fish, [1] a wooden reinforcement of a "built-up" ship's mast that helped round out its desired profile. [2] The top and bottom faces taper inwards along ...
Proposed lines. Karachi–Gwadar Railway Line (Makran Coastal Railway) Mandra–Bhaun Railway [ 6 ] Gwadar–Mastung Branch Line. Jacobabad–Gwadar Branch Line [ 7 ] Basima–Jacobabad Branch Line. Zhob Valley Railway. Nur–Muzaffarabad Branch Line. Uzbekistan–Afghanistan–Pakistan Railway Project.
Karachi–Peshawar Railway Line (Urdu: کراچی–پشاور مرکزی ریل راستہ, romanized: karāčī-pešāvar markazī rēl rāsta) (also referred to as Main Line 1 or ML-1) is one of four main railway lines in Pakistan, operated and maintained by Pakistan Railways. The line starts from Kiamari station in the province of Sindh and ...
Karachi Circular Railway (abbreviated as KCR) [1] (Urdu: کراچی سرکلر ریلوے, Sindhi: ڪراچي سرڪيولر ريلوي) is a partially active regional public transit system in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan, which serves the Karachi metropolitan area. [2] KCR was fully operational between 1964 and 1994, until it was abruptly shutdown ...
The Green Line (Urdu: سبز ایکسپریس) is an express train operated daily by Pakistan Railways between Karachi and Islamabad. [ 1 ] It is the flagship rail of the organization and has the highest passage priority. [ 2 ] The train takes approximately 21 hours to cover a published distance of 1,521 kilometres (945 mi), traveling along a ...
Rail transport in Pakistan began in 1855 during the British Raj, when several railway companies began laying track and operating in present-day Pakistan. The country's rail system has been nationalised as Pakistan Railways (originally the Pakistan Western Railway). The system was originally a patchwork of local rail lines operated by small ...
West of the Quetta Express Line (also called the Rohri–Chaman Railway), is the partly overlapping named Quetta-Taftan Line, the final northern Quetta section is the dual-named section The line climbs through a thin section of the high (red-orange) belt of mountains, coming at closest 62 kilometres northeast of the thermally active volcano, pinpointed, Taftan as to its station at the trunk ...
Karakoram Express (Urdu: قراقرم ایکسپریس) is a passenger train operated daily by Pakistan Railways between Karachi and Lahore. [1] The trip takes approximately 17 hours and 45 minutes to cover a published distance of 1,241 kilometres (771 mi), traveling along a stretch of the Karachi–Peshawar Railway Line, Khanewal–Wazirabad Branch Line and Shahdara Bagh–Sangla Hill Branch ...