Night train route
Khyber Mail
Karachi → Peshawar · Pakistan
- Distance
- 1,732 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 32 h
- Average speed
- 54 km/h
- Top speed
- 105 km/h
- Operator
- Pakistan Railways
- Train
- Mail sleeper rake
- Countries
- Pakistan
- In service since
- 1920
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
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.
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
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