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For Mark Tully , the BBC's much respected correspondent on the Indian sub-continent, a 1,000-mile trip on the romantic Khyber Mail from Karachi to the Khyber Pass fulfilled a life's ambition.
Tully's travels bring to an end this series in which well known train lovers undertake memorable journeys. He discovers that in Pakistan, where railways are a legacy of the British Raj and remain the mainstay of the transport system, style is more important than speed. "In an Islamic country nothing is believed to happen without God's help," he says. "But Pakistani railwaymen know that even Allah cannot guarantee that their trains will run on time."
Tully takes a detour on a steam-hauled goods train, chugs through the Bolan Pass to Quetta, most Islamic of all Pakistan's cities, and catches the first train for 11 years to go through the Khyber Pass, closed since the Soviet-Afghan war.