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Speedometer check: 114 km/h and climbing Pakistan Railways • Full-Speed Window Seat 28DN Shalimar Express at 114 km/h: Racing Through Green Punjab The needle pushes past one hundred and fourteen, the countryside dissolves into green ribbons, and the window becomes a cinema screen — this is the fastest chapter of the Shalimar’s long run south Yesterday our camera was swinging through the great curve on the approach to Bahawalpur. Today there is no curve, no station, no horizon landmark — there is only speed. The 28DN Shalimar Express is flat out on the open main line, the GPS on the dashboard reading past 114 km/h, and out of the open window the green fields of Punjab are flying past in long green ribbons. The pylons flash by like fence posts. The trees blur into smears of green. This is the chapter of every railway journey that no platform film can ever capture: the feeling of a train running free, the railway’s version of the open road....

Pakistan Railways • Window-Seat Journey 28DN Shalimar Express Rounds the Great Curve: The Window-Seat Approach to Bahawalpur Green coaches bending across a sweeping curve, tracks fanning out ahead, and the station of the old princely city rising on the horizon — this is the arrival filmed from the best seat on the train Yesterday’s film ended under Multan’s great canopy, the 28DN Shalimar Express standing at the platform in the striped shade. Today the journey continues south. Our camera is no longer on the platform — it is at the open window of a moving coach, and ahead of it the whole train bends across a magnificent sweeping curve on the approach to Bahawalpur. Watch the rake snake through the frame, coaches after green coaches, while the tracks fan out toward a station that has been waiting for trains since the age of the Nawabs. This is the window seat at its finest — and this is the article about the ninety seconds when Bahawalpur first comes into view. ...

Pakistan Railways • Morning Arrival 28DN Shalimar Express Rolls Under the Canopy: A Morning Arrival at Multan Broad daylight, a green GEU-40 growling down the platform road, and the great station canopy turning the whole arrival into theatre — this is the daytime railway at its most cinematic Most of our films this week have lived in the dark — night arrivals, midnight crossings, headlight beams cutting the black. Today’s video flips the lights on. The 28DN Shalimar Express glides into Multan Railway Station in full daylight, hauled by GEU-40 locomotive No. 9011, and rolls the length of the platform under the station’s great steel canopy. No drama of darkness this time — just the honest, sunlit choreography of a big daytime express coming home to its platform. 🎥 Watch the Canopy Arrival Watch the 28DN Shalimar Express glide under Multan's great platform canopy — filmed from the platform in 4K. AI-generated illustrat...

Pakistan Railways • Night Departure 12DN Hazara Express Departs Behind the HGMU 30-R: The Flip Side of a Midnight Dual Action Three minutes after the crossing, our camera swung around — and caught the same two trains from the other side: the Hazara Express pulling out, the Pakistan Express thundering past, one green signal and a whole lot of noise If you read yesterday’s article, you saw the approach: 45UP Pakistan Express rolling toward Multan Cantt behind GEU-40 No. 9001 while 12DN Hazara Express crossed it in a roaring midnight dual action. What you did not see — until now — is what happened three minutes later. Our camera stayed on. The Hazara Express, hauled by an HGMU 30-R, pulled out of the station and straight into the path of the oncoming Pakistan Express. Same two trains. Same dark. Roles completely reversed. This is the departure half of the story. 🎥 Watch the Midnight Dual Action The departure, the crossing, and the fl...

Pakistan Railways • Dual Action 45UP Meets 12DN: When Pakistan Express Crossed Hazara Express at Multan Cantt GEU-40 No. 9001’s headlight on one track, a southbound express roaring past on the other — a midnight crossing you have to see to believe Ask any railfan what moment makes their heart skip and they will give you the same answer: a dual action — two trains, side by side, moving in opposite directions, passing each other in a roar of horns and headlights. It lasts seconds. It takes hours of patience to catch. And at nearly one in the morning at Multan Cantt, we caught a beauty: 45UP Pakistan Express rolling in behind GEU-40 locomotive No. 9001, crossing 12DN Hazara Express as the two thundered past each other under the platform lights. Watch the Dual Action AI-generated illustration: the dual action — a GEU-40-led express approaching on one track while the second express streaks past on the other, headlights blazing at night. 1 What Exactly Is a...