My Day: Pakistani station master [BBC]





Date: 23/04/2014

Shaukat Mehmood Hashmi works as the station master in an isolated part of north-western Pakistan. He says they get by with ancient technology - and hope for a bright future as a tourist attraction. [From Richard Buckby]


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My Day: Pakistani station master
S M Hashmi on the hotline; his right hand is at the handle of the token block instrument made in Calcutta in 1923 which is still ensuring train safety on the Attock block-section

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Station master Shaukat Mehmood Hashmi in Attock in north-western Pakistan gets by with ancient technology and hopes his place of work will one day be a tourist attraction.