ALCO 3825 is stopped at Mach with the 1130 Quetta to Rawalpindi. Mach station is a terminus so all trains will need to reverse in or out!

5 feet 6 inch gauge ALCO 3831 leaves Quetta with the Bolan Mail, the 1530 to Karachi.

Heavily oil stained, 5 feet 6 inch gauge 3831 built in the 1950s as an ALCO DL500 leaves Kolpur with the "Chiltan Express", 1000 Lahore to Quetta. Kolpur is the top of the tortuous Bolan Pass muc... (more)

This loco was built to 5' 6" gauge for the North West Railway in India in 1911 by Vulcan Foundry, Newton-Le-Willows, England. In 1947 it passed to Pakistan railways and continued to serve there un... (more)

An oil-burning XA class Pacific waiting to enter Kundian shed yard is illuminated by the glow from its own fire - supplemented by multiple fill-in flashes from the pretty pathetic flash guns we ha... (more)

This is PR ARPW20 3830 emerging from summit Tunnel at Kolpur, at 1800 meters above Sea Level on the Mushkaf Bolan Pass section of Pakistan Railways. This (once highly strategic) line with its 1:2... (more)

Refreshment time at Rawalpindi for an SGS class 0-6-0.

2 goats and an Alco

Amazingly, a fleet of British-built 'SPS' (Standard Passenger, Superheated) 4-4-0s were still working passenger trains out of Malakwal in Central Pakistan in 1988. Taken from Signalbox (Interlocki... (more)

A 'CWD' 2-8-0 passes under the spectacular semaphores with the Railway Travel and Photography special train.

A metre gauge 'MS' 4-6-0 arrives with an early morning train. Amazingly, these British built engines lasted until very recently due to weight restrictions - everything else on this line was too he... (more)

The Railway Travel & Photography Train had specially cleaned SGS's at each end and ran up and down the scenic branch all morning for tour participants to take pictures.

A service train with an SGS 0-6-0, which had a bent axle and was literally wobbling up the hill at walking pace. A dull day, converted to mono in Photoshop to try and put some life into it!