Interesting news from Pakistan

Could they really change the gauge to standard? If so, they would be cut off from India (but perhaps they don't mind that).
http://www.businessrecorder.com/index.p ... =&supDate=

New connections to China and Tajikistan? The latter would have to go through Afghanistan, and Tajikistan uses Russian gauge. When will Afghanistan ever be peaceful enough to build rail lines?

I suspect these are pipe dreams.

george matthews wrote:Could they really change the gauge to standard? If so, they would be cut off from India (but perhaps they don't mind that).
http://www.businessrecorder.com/index.p ... =&supDate=

New connections to China and Tajikistan? The latter would have to go through Afghanistan, and Tajikistan uses Russian gauge. When will Afghanistan ever be peaceful enough to build rail lines?

I suspect these are pipe dreams.

This would appear to be yet another brave dream statement that emanates from time to time from various South Asian governments. Of course doing a preliminary study is very different from actually building anything too.

The China link, if it were to happen, would most likely be along the alignment of the Karakoram Highway through spectacular but geographically unstable territory and would take a lot of resources to maintain even if it were somehow built.