Heritage record
Golra Railway Station
IslamabadRailway StationProtected
Golrha Sharif Railway Station was established by the British in 1882 to connect the area to Havelian, Kohat and Peshawar. The building is constructed with lime stone masonry laid out in lime mortar. The small stone platform is designed in Victoria Style railway station. A museum was established in this building which housed rare items, i.e., watches, navigation equipment, medals, costumes worn by railway staff of British India, photographs, crockery, furniture and other railway accessories.
Photographs: Department of Archaeology & Museums national inventory record, displayed from the official source (doam.gov.pk). Not PWHI photography.
- Record ID
- 6310
- Province / territory
- Islamabad
- District
- Islamabad
- Typology
- Monument
- Subtype
- Railway Station
- Period
- Historic
- Legal status
- Not Protected — UNVERIFIED; no statute or notification cited
- Coordinates
- 33.67060, 72.94770 — source-provided, not field-verified
- Verification status
- source_record; automatically_standardized; verification_required
- Sources
- Khan, Muhammad Ashraf et.al. (2012). Archaeological Remains of Islamabad Capital Territory and Rawalpindi District. Journal of Asian Civilizations, Vol. 35, No. 1, July 2012.
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