Afghanistan's first major railway opens up supply route to the north - Associated Press, Kabul

Afghanistan has never had a functional rail network, though many projects have been begun and later abandoned, victims of manoeuvres of the 19th-century Great Game rivalry between Russia and Britain, and then political bickering in the early 20th century. Soviet occupiers abandoned a few rail projects in the 1980s, and later years of bitter civil war made such construction impossible. Afghanistan's first major railway opens up supply route to the north - Afghanistan