Classic route
Jaffar Express
Quetta → Peshawar · Pakistan
- Distance
- 1,632 km
- Fastest time
- 35 h 10 min
- Top speed
- 110 km/h
- Operator
- Pakistan Railways
- Train
- AC sleeper, business & economy coaches
- Countries
- Pakistan
- In service since
- 2003
- Runs
- 1× daily each way
- Highest point
- 1,790 m
Pakistan’s longest through service tops the Bolan Pass at Kolpur (1,790 m), then follows the Indus corridor 1,632 km to the gate of the Khyber.
Pakistan’s great north–south marathon leaves Quetta at 1,680 m, tops the Bolan Pass at Kolpur and then falls through a staircase of tunnels and horseshoes to the Indus plain, before running the length of the country to Peshawar in about 35 hours. The route is dense with frontier history, from Sibi’s desert junction to the Lansdowne spans at Rohri and the girder bridge over the Indus at Attock. Militant attacks in 2025 halted it only briefly; it still runs daily.
Along the way
- Bolan Pass gorges below Kolpur
- Sibi’s desert junction
- Indus crossing at Rohri–Sukkur
- Multan’s shrine skyline
- Lahore Junction’s Raj-era platforms
- Attock bridge over the Indus
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