Importance Railways

Railways and roadways are the two means of transport over the land. Roads can be built in the hilly areas also whereas railway lines cannot be laid easily. The railways have advantage over the roadways that they can carry a large number of passengers and large and heavy loads to long distances. Also journey by train is more comfortable than by bus.

Urban cities came up with importance of railways and railways stations in particular. Moreover, unlike other industries which become modern over a period of time, railways changed technology at a much faster scale. It bought distant towns closer to mainstream cities and helped big time in commerce.

Pakistan railway was founded in 1947 after the independence. At the time of independence railway has 8,122 km of tracks. Pakistan had very good railway infrastructure at that time that was built by Britain. Pakistan railway was running very successfully and saving lots of money for the economy. Railway had added some new tracks and also started electric powered railway tracks for some areas.

Pakistan railway was degrading from last decade but after formation of this government; railway has stopped completely and now few trains can be seen on tracks. Still railway has more than 80,000 employees. Despite of many bailout packages; railway was not able to come out of this disastrous situation. No one is Pakistan is serious to restore this national assets as it can work as a life line for Pakistan’s economy.

Pakistan Railway is mainly suffering from following problems:

· No Government Attention

· Shortage of Advanced & efficient locomotives

· Mismanagement

· Single way railway tracks

· Non-availability of latest maintenance techniques

· Corruption

· Lobbies whose interests clashes with prosperity of railway

Here we will discuss the benefits of using the trains and especially electric powered trains over the road transport. A train normally having the engine o f 2,000 to 2,500 HP can pull 750 ton