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Train trip through historic Khyber Pass

(23 Apr 2006) Peshawar 1. Wide of Khyber Steam Safari locomotive at railway station 2. Railway worker linking steam locomotive to carriage 3. Close up of nameplate 4. Various of train drivers at work on footplate 5. Various of foreign tourist passengers boarding train 6. Smoke rising from chimney of steam train 7. Train''s driving wheels turn as steam blows 8. Train pulling away from platform 9. Train rounding a curve Khyber Pass 10. Passengers looking out of window 11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Nellie Norman, tourist : "I think it is a once in a lifetime experience and to be able to come to a region that is so difficult to get to is just fantastic and it is a really good opportunity." 12. Khyber Pass seen from train 13. Train entering tunnel 14. Wide of steam train crossing bridge 15. Passengers on train 16. SOUNDBITE: (English) Zahoor Durrani, Khyber Steam Safari spokesman: "Khyber Pass on steam train with two vintage steam engines and they (tourists) have gone through the history. It is a complete run through the history. The Khyber Pass has a recorded history of about 2500 years, so it is a great tourist attraction." 17. Passengers disembarking at Landikotal station near border with Afghanistan 18. Bagpipers marching by 19. Tourists watching 20. Musicians playing 21. Tourists sitting watching show 22. Local tribesmen performing traditional ''Khattak'' dance 23. Various of tourists at museum showing the history of the Khyber Rifles Regiment 24. Tourist looking through binoculars into Afghanistan 25. Wide of Khyber Pass 26. Wide of tourists looking out over Khyber Pass 27. Train at Shahgai railway station SUGGESTED LEAD IN: Organisers say it is one of the most stunning journeys on Earth. This train trip goes through some of the world''s most volatile regions and offers tourists to northern Pakistan a ride through history. STORYLINE: Two century-old steam locomotives are still hauling passengers up the historic Khyber Pass, the famed gateway between the Indian subcontinent and Central Asia. It''s called The Khyber Steam Safari and for those passengers lucky enough to be able to get a ticket, gives them a tantalising view of the tough tribal lands separating Pakistan and Afghanistan. Early morning in Peshawar and a vintage steam locomotive waits at the platform for the tough trip ahead. The twin 2-8-0 locos, built in 1913 in the U.K., are being readied for a gruelling up hill journey. They will climb two thousand feet (six hundred metres) in just over twenty miles (32 kilometres) up the famed Khyber Pass. Its a rare opportunity for foreign visitors to Pakistan to get the chance to enter the normally off-limits tribal areas on the Afghan frontier, lawless lands that are currently focus of the hunt for fugitive members of al-Qaeda. The railway line itself was built for the military, being completed in 1926 to haul troops and supplies up to the Afghan border to defend what was then a part of the British empire from attack. The strategic route is a marvel of engineering, with over thirty tunnels and ninety bridges and culverts, built at a cost to the British Raj of over seven hundred thousand rupees a mile, a huge amount at that time. The ride takes around four hours and at each of the stops passengers get a taste of the traditions of the Khyber, which over the centuries has been the favoured route for armies invading the Subcontinent. Operators hope that as word of the wonders of a trip to the North West Frontier Province gets out, more and more visitors will return and experience for themselves the magic of the Khyber. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...