Taliban govt harbours big dreams for Afghan rail
The HinduOn the edge of the Afghan border with Uzbekistan, where the railway abruptly stops, throngs of young men transfer sacks of wheat or flour from freight trains to trucks. "People have been talking about the Trans-Afghan Railway for more than 100 years," said Andrew Grantham, news editor of the U.K.-based Railway Gazette International, a media outlet dedicated to covering developments in the rail sector. "Building a railway on that scale in five years, it's not going to happen," said Mr. Grantham. Access to the sea "The projects do seem to be happening," said Mr. Grantham, noting that the line connecting Herat to Iran "can be up and running reasonably quickly". This railway will give landlocked Afghanistan access to the sea and connect it with international trade routes, and will "significantly impact Afghanistan's economy", he added.
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