An official at the Lahore Railway Station checks boxes full of government documents on their way to India in this photograph taken on August 10, 1947.
The station was among the key sites of violence during the Partition riots. Hindus and Sikhs leaving for India by train were frequently attacked and killed at the station, and trains arriving from India would unload bodies of dead Muslim migrants.
The British North-Western Railways were divided at the time of Partition, with 3,133 kilometers of railway track going to India, and the remaining 8,124 kilometers to Pakistan.
The station was among the key sites of violence during the Partition riots. Hindus and Sikhs leaving for India by train were frequently attacked and killed at the station, and trains arriving from India would unload bodies of dead Muslim migrants.
The British North-Western Railways were divided at the time of Partition, with 3,133 kilometers of railway track going to India, and the remaining 8,124 kilometers to Pakistan.