The freight busniess unit with 12,000 personnel, operates over 200 freight stations on the railway network.The unit serves the posts of karachi and bin qasim as well as all four provinces of the country and generates revenue from the movement of agricultural industrial and imported products such as petroleum oil& lubricants POL wheat,coal,fertilizer,rock phosphate,cement and sugar.About 39% of the revenue is generated from the transportation of POL products 19% from imported wheat,fertilizer and rock phosphate.The remaining 42% is earned from domestic traffic.
A railway junction is a type of railway stations from where at least two different routes avaible for an up or down train.An up train means a train route from south to north and vice versa.All the trains have been given a number to recognize and up or down train.
PESHAWAR KARACHI DOWN TRACK;
peshawar, rawalpindi, jehlum, lalamusa junctions, wazirabad junction, gujranwala, lahor junction, raiwind junction,sahiwal, khanewal junction , multan cantt, lodhran junction, bahawalpur, khanpur junction, sadiqabad, rohri junction, khairpur , nawabshahjunction, shahdadpur,hyderabad junction, kotri junction, karachi canttt, karachi city...
KARACHI QUETTA UP TRACK;
from karachi to rohri junction, sukkar, shikarpur,jacobabad junction, sibi junctions, dera murad jamali, machh, quetta city.
INTERNATIONAL ROUTES;
IRAN: a board gauge railway line runs from zahedan to quetta and a standard gauge line is finished from zahedan to kerman in central iran linking with the rest of the iranian rail network.
INDIA: two trains operate to india the samjhauta express between delhi and lahore, and the thar express between jodhpur and karachi via mirpurkhas khokrapar.
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