Talk:Rail transport in Afghanistan

Comment
See: Talk:Transport in Afghanistan. Biscuittin (talk) 14:35, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Future


It is very important and highly desirable that the Indian gauge and Russian gauge lines meet without any other gauge intervening. 121.102.47.39 (talk) 05:03, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the pretty diagram. However, you haven't explained why it is important that railways of these gauges meet - and somebody would need a very good reason for building multi-gauge railways across thousands of km of mountainous warzone which currently has minimal infrastructure and virtually no railways. Please avoid speculation; wikipedia is an encyclopedia. bobrayner (talk) 10:15, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Proposed gauges in Afghanistan:
 * North part (flat area): Russian gauge and  Indian gauge
 * Central and South part (mountainous area): Indian gauge only
 * Iran border: standard gauge,  Russian gauge and  Indian gauge
 * 121.102.47.39 (talk) 07:14, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Is this something that you think would be nice, or did you get it from a reliable source?
 * bobrayner (talk) 09:58, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

electrification
Proposed voltages in Afghanistan: 220.210.143.190 (talk) 03:03, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
 * 1) North part ( Russian gauge lines and Indian gauge lines): 25kV 50Hz alternating current
 * 2) Central part ( Indian gauge lines): 25kV 50Hz alternating current
 * 3) South part ( Indian gauge lines): 25kV 60Hz alternating current
 * 4) Iran-Herat line ( standard gauge): without overhead lines

Breaks-of-gauge
A list of breaks-of-gauge was added to the article: However, I fear it may be very misleading. Some standard-gauge rail routes have definitely been proposed; notably one that would go to Mazar-i-Sharif with "the possibility of a link to the Turkmemistan Railways line at Towraghondi". and there was a proposal to build a standard-gauge line serving mines at Aynak which is 200km from Kandahar (and Aynak is nowhere near the implied route across Afghanistan from northern Pakistan to southern Uzbekistan). However, I have seen no evidence that there's actually a break of gauge at any of these places; has the infrastructure been built? Where is the standard-gauge rail in Kandahar and where does it join the Pakistan network? Where did the standard-gauge rail over the Khyber pass come from? What is the Mazar-i-Sharif break-of-gauge about? There's a plan to build broad-gauge to Mazar-i-Sharif, of course, - perhaps the existence of two overlapping proposals to build railways of different gauges along the same route south into Mazar-i-Sharif somehow created the idea of a break-of-gauge? I've tried looking through sources but haven't yet seen anything that supports this list, so I will remove it. If anybody has sources, they would be very welcome. bobrayner (talk) 23:52, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Kandahar /
 * Khyber Pass /
 * Towraghondi /
 * Mazar-i-Sharif /
 * Sherkhan Bandar /


 * The Aynak copper mining project is "about 20 miles from Kabul", so not too far from where any Pakistan - Khyber Pass - Uzbekistan railway would presumably be built (especially as the point of the railway is to serve the mine!) The Aynak in Wikipedia is either a different one, or listed as being in the wrong place.Wheeltapper (talk) 15:53, 20 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Afghan internal networks should be not . 121.102.122.122 (talk) 09:17, 18 December 2010 (UTC)

Break-of-gauge installations: 101.128.177.35 (talk) 02:54, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Sherkhan Bandar: /
 * Mazar-i-Sharif: /
 * Aquina border: /
 * Herat: (to Turkmenistan)//(to Iran)

Circle railway
Ditto for the circle railway that has just been added to the article. It's not been mentioned in any of the sources that I've seen so far. Does anyone have a source? Is it a current proposal? If so, then it might be better off in the "Current railways and future plans" section rather than the "History" section. I'm surprised at the mentions of altitudes. Are these actually from some reliable source that mentions the altitude of railway stations, or were they WP:OR taken from finding the altitude of a nearby town on a separate map? bobrayner (talk) 23:59, 17 October 2010 (UTC)

Track gauge and platform height
Track gauges and platform height for future Afghan rail systems 180.198.79.56 (talk) 06:37, 13 June 2012 (UTC)
 * gauge and 200mm platforms: for mainline network
 * gauge and 200mm platforms: for northern lines only
 * gauge and 200mm platforms: for Iranian border
 * gauge and 960mm platforms: for Kabul metro (with use San Francisco BART technology)
 * gauge and 1150mm platforms: for metro systems other than Kabul


 * Don't forget Lartigue Monorail for the Wakhan Corridor high speed line, and Schwebebahn (with attachments for the secure transport of elephants) for the Khyber Pass to Kabul. Wheeltapper (talk) 06:56, 13 June 2012 (UTC)

August 2017
There is a lot in the article from the early 2000s about plans for railways but little news of actual construction. Does anyone have up-to-date information? Roberttherambler (talk) 10:04, 30 August 2017 (UTC)