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Amritsar–Jammu High Speed Rail Corridor is a proposed high-speed rail line connecting Punjab's city, Amritsar with Jammu and Kashmir's winter capital, Jammu. [3] It was one of the six new high-speed rail corridors planned in 2019. The line will be an extension of Delhi–Amritsar line. [4] [5]
An earlier train ran between Amritsar and Lahore and vice versa and carried 8,239 persons from India to Pakistan and 10,360 from Pakistan to India from 28 October 1954 to 30 November 1954. [ 3 ] Samjhauta Express was a daily train when the service started in 1976 and changed to a twice-weekly schedule in 1994.
The present Pakistan Railways network was originally built as a patchwork of local rail links operated by small private railway companies. These included the Scinde Railway, Punjab Railway, Delhi Railway and Indus Steam Flotilla companies. In 1870, these 4 companies were amalgamated into the Scinde, Punjab & Delhi Railway company.
The Scinde, Punjab & Delhi Railway completed the Multan–Lahore–Amritsar line in 1865. [1] The Amritsar–Attari section was completed on the route to Lahore in 1862. [2] ...
Total media and the press black out in Punjab, the rail, road and air services in Punjab suspended. Foreigners' and NRIs' entry was also banned and water and electricity supply cut off. [108] [109] [110] 1 June 1984: Operation Blue Star to remove militants from Harmandir Sahib commences, Punjab shut-down from outside world. [111] 3 June 1984
'A Railway Train', lithographed sketch by Hurnam Singh, circa mid-19th century The Punjab Railway was established shortly after the Scinde Railway Act of Parliament in July 1855 was passed. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The Punjab Railway began soon after the Karachi-Kotri Railway Line opened in 13 May 1861.
Sind Railway (later reorganised as Scinde, Punjab & Delhi Railway) was formed a guaranteed railway in 1856. It constructed broad-gauge railways from Delhi to Multan via Lahore, and from Karachi to Kotri. Multan and Kotri were connected by ferry service on the Indus River. In 1871–72, Indus Valley Railway was formed to connect Multan and Kotri.
The Southern Punjab Railway Co. opened the Delhi–Bhatinda–Samasatta line in 1897. [2] The line passed through Muktasar and Fazilka tehsils and provided direct connection through Samma Satta (now in Pakistan) to Karachi.