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Railway Stations in Pakistan

1910s: Railway Junction - Lodhran
In Colonial Period, mostly Railway Station/Junction boards was written in 4 languages with respective scripts ie. English, Hindi, Urdu, Gurmukhi

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1910s: Wazirabad Railway Junction
Junction station for Jannu Tawi, Sialkot & Lyallpur. Wazirabad was built by General Avitable, an Italian in the service of Ranjit Singh, The Sikh ruler. Wazirabad is noted for the manufacture of cutlery, steel & brass wares etc

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1910s: View of Railway Station Lyallpur (now Faisalabad)

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Sheikh Wasil is a railway station on Quetta - Taftan Railroad (an hour drive southwest of Quetta): it's a great place to witness the architecture of last century.

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1930
Most probable.....this can be a Samasatta.....even today our railway station presents the same picture as we witnessed in this picture of 1930....nothing changed in the railway stations....yes people do changed their costumes.

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1908: Locomotive Shed at Wazirabad

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c. 1930-40s: A View at Railway Station - Samasatta - Bahawalpur

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Karachi Cantonment railway station
1920


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Now

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It was earlier known as Frere Street Station. Construction of the station began in 1896 and was completed in 1898 at a total cost of Rs. 80,000. The present building of Karachi Cantt station has been declared a protected heritage site by the Government of Sindh.



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