Golra Heritage Museum

Golra Heritage Museum

Date: 2007-12-28
Owner: Gallery Administrator
Size: 63 items
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The caption says: "On its journey of 1604 miles from Bombay to Peshawar, the up Punjab Limited crossing Jhelum bridge one Sunday morning in 1927." Now a few questions: 1. Was the Frontier Mail called the Punjab Limited? 2. If yes, then why was t

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The station master's office. Next to it is the Golra Heritage Museum. Notice the heritage pictures displayed outside the station master's office.

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Inside the station master's office.

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Looking towards the Peshawar side. The old bell was used to inform the passengers of the arrival and departure of the train. Next to the bell is a green arrow on which is written "qibla" in Urdu, denoting the direction one should face to pray. T

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Looking towards Rawalpindi-side. The Golra Heritage Museum is on the left hand side with the main station building attached to it. Look at the Victorian-style building with old lamps, cast iron benches, old weighing machine and tin roofs.

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A colourful entrance to the Golra Sharif Museum.

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A plaque at the entrance of the Golra Sharif Museum says that it was inaugurated by President Pervez Musharraf on 3rd March 2007.

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A view of exhibits at the Golra Heritage Museum from the entrance. Notice the old style fans mounted on the ceiling.

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At the left-hand side of the entrance, there is a wooden stand inside which old rifles are neatly kept. This stand also has hangers for coat, belts and caps. An old coat, a belt and a cap can be seen hanging.

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A collection of old wick lamps used for signaling, guards and inside the railways station. Below this is a huge search-light which was fired using oil and was used during accidents and emergencies.

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Tools from bygone era - resistance heaters, fan, ammeter and voltmeter.

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A blast from the past - ammeter, voltmeter, lamp shades and fan.

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An old style phone hanging on the wall which has a hand-held microphone and phone-mounted speaker. A brief set of instructions on how to use it are also supplied.

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The station master of Golra Sharif Junction Janab Mohammad Ramzan showing an old powerful electrical searchlight that was taken out of a wooden box.

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Two set of Morse-code telegraph machines displayed inside a glass casing.