PAKISTAN RAILWAYS

“EXECUTIVE SUMMARY”
PAKISTAN RAILWAYS
Brief History
Sir Henry Edward Frere was appointed Commissioner of Sindh after its annexation with
Bombay in 1847. It was he who discovered the potential of Karachi as a seaport and
conceived the idea of a railway line to up country and recommended Karachi to be a
seaport in 1855. The survey for construction of a railway line from Karachi was started
in 1858. Initially a railway line was proposed from Karachi City to Kotri, then steam
navigation through rivers Indus/Chenab up to Multan and from there on a Railway line to
Lahore and beyond.

The 13th of May, 1861 was historical day when the first railway line was opened for
public traffic between Karachi City and Kotri, a distance of 169 Kms. By 1897 the line
from Keamari to Kotri was converted to double track.

Different sections of this part of railway in the Sub-continent, which now comprise
Pakistan Railways, were constructed in the last quarter of the 19th century and early
part of the 20th century. Unlike other rail networks in the Sub-continent during British
era, most of the sections (of Pakistan Railways) were constructed as strategic lines to
safeguard the British Empire in the Sub-continent. It is an interesting coincidence that
the present alignment of railway line from Peshawar to Karachi closely follows
Alexander's line of march through the Hindu kush to the sea.

In 1885, the Sindh, Punjab and Delhi Railways were purchased by the Secretary of
State for India. On 1st January, 1886 this line and other State Railways (the Indus
Valley, the Punjab Northern, inclusive of Sindh Sagar eastern section and the Kandahar
or Sindh-Pishin southern section) were integrated and North Western State Railway
was formed; which was later on renamed as North Western Railways

At the time of Independence, the NWR was bifurcated with 1,847 route miles lying in
India and 5,048 route miles in Pakistan. In 1954 the Railway line was extended to
Mardan and Charsadda and in 1956 Jacobabad - Kashmor narrow-gauge section (2'-6'')
was converted into broad-gauge section. Construction of Kot Adu- Kashmor line was
completed in 1973, providing an alternate route from Karachi to up country, along right
bank of River Indus. Meter- gauge line from Hyderabad to Khokhropar was converted to
broad- gauge in two stages, from Hyderabad to Mirpur Khas 66.07 kilometer in 1967 &
Mirpur Khas to Khokhropar (Zero Point) 133 kilometer in 2006.

Mission Statement
To provide a competitive, safe, reliable, market oriented, efficient and environment-friendly
mode of transport.
 PRINCIPAL STATISTICS

PLANT & EQUIPMENT

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Track - Kilometers 11,881 Kms
Locomotives 455 Nos
Coaching Vehicles 1,466 Nos
Freight Wagons 16,085 Nos
Railway Stations (Excluding Halts) 516 Nos

VOLUME OF TRAFFIC
Passengers Carried 52,388
Tonnes of Freight Carried 5,630
Freight Wagons Loaded 264,256

EMPLOYMENT & WAGES

Persons Employed 73,276
Cost of Employees 26,795 mn
Pension Payment 28,774 mn

FINANCIAL RESULTS
Gross Earnings 40,065 mn
Total Ordinary Working Expenses 50,073 mn

MARKET PRESENCE
Name of the Company Pakistan Railways
Established in the year 1861
Core Business Freight & Passenger Transportation
Owned By Federal Government
Pakistan Locomotive Risalpur,
Carriage Factory Islamabad,
Production Facilities at Concrete Sleeper Factory
Market Share 5.63 %
Main Competitors and their market share NLC / 15.4 % & Road Transport / 78.97
percentage %
Sales/Turnover at the end of FY 2017 (In
million Rupees) Rs. 40065 Million
Total Assets (In million Rupees) Rs. 1735000 Million (Approx)
HISTORY OF RAILWAYS IN THE WORLD
Railway line is considered as life line of any country’s passenger and freight
transportation. Currently, approximately more than 130 countries provides rail services
on public and private basis to facilitate its commuters

Pre Steam Era:

Wagon ways or tramways, with wooden rails and horse-drawn traffic, are known to have
been used in the 1550s to facilitate transportation of ore tubs to and from mines first
introduced in Austria.

Steam Engines:
The first full-scale working railway steam locomotive was built in the United Kingdom in
1804 by Richard Trevithick, a British engineer born in Cornwall. The first commercially
successful steam locomotive was Matthew Murray rack locomotive Salamanca built for
the Middleton Railway in Leeds in 1812

Electric Locomotives:
The first known electric locomotive was built in 1837 by chemist Robert Davidson of
Aberdeen in Scotland, and it was powered by galvanic cells (batteries)

Diesel-Electric locomotives:
Swiss & German co-production was the world's first functional diesel–electric railcar in
1914. In 1929, the Canadian National Railways became the first North American railway
to use diesels in mainline service with two units, 9000 and 9001, from Westinghouse.

High Speed Rail:

The first electrified high-speed rail Tōkaidō Shinkansen was introduced in 1964 between
Tokyo and Osaka in Japan. Since then high-speed rail transport, functioning at speeds
up and above 300 km/h, has been built in Japan, Spain, France, Germany, Italy, the
People's Republic of China, Taiwan (Republic of China), the United Kingdom, South
Korea, Scandinavia, Belgium and the Netherlands