Quetta Railway Station in Quetta

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  Ghazala Shah

  :: 12 April 2018 23:57:48

  Visited Quetta in childhood, by train. I wish I can visit it once again.

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  Sheikh Zubair Ahmed

  :: 16 February 2018 16:57:24

  Quetta was always considered a strategic city during the British Raj. The station was built during construction of the strategic line constructed by the Scinde, Punjab & Delhi Railway. Construction began in 1880 and opened to the public in 1887, which by then was part of the North Western State Railway. Quetta was always considered as an important strategic destination as Britain feared that the Russian Empire might advance from Afghanistan into Quetta,

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  Hot Vines

  :: 04 February 2018 01:55:10

  So ghatiya station aek capital hone ke baad bhi cheee Tumhare Netaon ne Pakistan loot Lia aur loot te rahenge kyunki Pakistan ki Awaam jahil hai.

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  Nawab Khan

  :: 25 December 2017 10:26:57

  A train station , railway station , railroad station , or depot (see below ) is a railway facility or area where trains regularly stop to load or unload passengers or freight . It generally consists of at least one track-side platform and a station building (depot) providing such ancillary services as ticket sales and waiting rooms . If a station is on a single-track line, it often has a passing loop to facilitate traffic movements. The smallest stations are most often referred to as "stops " or, in some parts of the world, as "halts " (flag stops). Stations may be at ground level, underground, or elevated. Connections may be available to intersecting rail lines or other transport modes such as buses , trams or other rapid transit systems. Terminology In British English , traditional usage favours railway station or simply station , even though train station , which is often perceived as an Americanism, is now about as common as railway station in writing; railroad station is not used, railroad being obsolete there. [1][2][3] In British usage, the word station is commonly understood to mean a railway station unless otherwise qualified. [4] In American English , the most common term in contemporary usage is train station ; railroad station and railway station are less common, though they have been more common in the past. [5] In addition to its use for storage facilities, in North America the term depot is sometimes used as an alternative name for station , along with the compound forms train depot , railway depot , and railroad depot , but also applicable for goods and other vehicles. [6] History Broad Green station, Liverpool, shown in 1962, opened in 1830, is the oldest station site in the world still in use as a passenger station. Baker Street station, London, opened in 1863, was the world's first station to be completely underground. Its original part, seen here, is just below the surface and was constructed by cut-and-cover tunnelling. Liverpool Lime Street Station's frontage resembles a château and is the world's oldest used terminus The world's first recorded railway station was The Mount on the Oystermouth Railway (later to be known as the Swansea and Mumbles ) in Swansea , Wales, [7] which began passenger service in 1807, although the trains were horsedrawn rather than by locomotives. [8] The two-storey Mount Clare station in Baltimore, Maryland , which survives as a museum, first saw passenger service as the terminus of the horse-drawn Baltimore and Ohio Railroad on 22 May 1830. [9] The oldest terminal station in the world was Crown Street railway station in Liverpool, built in 1830, on the locomotive hauled Liverpool to Manchester line. As the first train on the Liverpool-Manchester line left Liverpool, the station is slightly older than the Manchester terminal at Liverpool Road. The station was the first to incorporate a train shed. The station was demolished in 1836 as the Liverpool terminal station moved to Lime Street railway station . Crown Street station was converted to a goods station terminal. The first stations had little in the way of buildings or amenities. The first stations in the modern sense were on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway , opened in 1830. [10] Manchester's Liverpool Road Station , the second oldest terminal station in the world, is preserved as part of the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester . It resembles a row of Georgian houses. Early stations were sometimes built with both passenger and goods facilities, though some railway lines were goods-only or passenger-only, and if a line was dual-purpose there would often be a goods depot apart from the passenger station. [11] Dual-purpose stations can sometimes still be found today, though in many cases goods facilities are restricted to major stations. In rural and remote communities across Canada

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  Hassan Munawar

  :: 05 November 2017 23:14:25

  Great to know about this railway station..... i will visit it one day....