forward for a railway to link Jalalabad with Kabul, eventually connecting to the (then) Indian system at Peshawar. Lines to join Kabul with Kandahar and Herat would follow later. Owing to political upheavals these plans were not implemented. In 1930s, the Japanese Ministry of Railways proposed Eurasian high speed rail from Tokyo to Paris via Busan (through Korea Strait undersea tunnel), Beijing, Baotou, Turfan, Kashgar, Kabul, Tehran, Baghdad, Istanbul with connection to Berlin and Rome but never realised at the beginning of the World War II. Industrial railways In the 1950s a hydroelectric power station was built at Surobi, east of Kabul. Three Henschel four-wheel narrow gauge diesel-hydraulic locomotives built in 1951 (works numbers 24892, 24993, 24994) were supplied to the power station. In 1979 mining and construction locomotive builder Bedia Maschinenfabrik of Bonn supplied five D35/6 two axle diesel-hydraulic narrow gauge locomotives, works numbers 150–154, to an unknown customer in Afghanistan. Timeline 2019 Aqina – Andkhoy railway line extension opened. Track gauge Until the 21st century, there were less than of railway inside Afghanistan, which was built to Russian gauge. For strategic reasons, past Afghan governments averted the construction of railways which could aid foreign interference in Afghanistan by Britain or Russia. The gauges in adjacent countries were: Iran, to the west, and China, to the east: Pakistan, to the south and east: Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan, to the north: . In 2010, the international "standard gauge" was chosen to be the country's railway gauge. The Khaf-Herat railway, a joint project between Afghanistan and Iran completed in 2020, was built to that gauge. It is long, of which is in Afghanistan; the remainder is in Iran. It links Turkey and Europe with Iranian ports in the Persian Gulf. Railway stations There are currently no passenger services or stations in Afghanistan. If any of the various cross-border links are completed and opened to passenger service, new stations will have to be built. Proposed Details of the preliminary list of stations to be served, which circle the central mountains of Afghanistan are available. National Rail Authority The Afghan government planned to form a railway construction commission with technical cooperation provided by the European Commission, which was discussed at the G8 meeting in July 2011. The commission would be responsible for supervising construction of a rail network within the country and its connection with the country's neighbors. In October 2011, the Asian