Night train route
Khyber Mail
Karachi → Peshawar · Pakistan
Rolling since 1920 and named for the pass beyond Peshawar. Pakistan’s grand old mail train, two nights along the Indus, a lounge diner added in 2024.
- Distance
- 1,732 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 32 h
- Average speed
- 54 km/h
- Top speed
- 105 km/h
Stations
- 0 kmKarachi Cantonment
- 10 kmDrigh Road
- 20 kmLandhi
- 173 kmHyderabad
- 289 kmNawabshah
- 473 kmRohri Junction
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- 646 kmRahim Yar Khan
- 824 kmBahawalpur
- 926 kmMultan Cantt
- 1,333 kmLala Musa Junction +1
- 1,489 kmRawalpindi +1
- 1,570 kmAttock City Junction
- 1,600 kmJehangira
- 1,619 kmNowshera Junction
- 1,658 kmPeshawar City
- 1,662 kmPeshawar Cantonment
The stations OpenStreetMap lists for this service, in order, with the distance along the line as drawn here. A train may skip some of them. A +N after a station: N other routes on this map stop or end there, and the map draws it as a station where lines meet.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 19834928: the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 3 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Pakistan Railways, a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
- See for yourself: open this line on the map with OpenStreetMap's own railway drawn underneath it
Questions and answers
How long is the Khyber Mail?
The Khyber Mail runs 1,732 km from Karachi to Peshawar.
How long does the Khyber Mail take?
The fastest scheduled journey is ≈ 32 h for the 1,732 km. That is an average of 54 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 105 km/h.
Who runs the Khyber Mail?
Pakistan Railways, with Mail sleeper rake.
How old is the Khyber Mail?
The line has been in service since 1920. That is the year the atlas dates it from: for a modern brand running over an older railway, it is the railway's date, not the brand's.
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