Firozpur: 70 years back, our country India got its Independence from the British company; in these 70 years, our country has developed a lot. Just before the partition of India and Pakistan, the Britishers plotted the web of railway tracks across the country. 

But, after the partition, the existence of this plotting is getting vanished. The best suitable example to justify the above statement is the Hussainiwala railway station, which was earlier called Ghulam Hussainwala. The station was located near the workshop of Irrigation department but has no existence in the meantime.   

A person who has been working in the workshop for 35 years, told about the reason behind this. He told that there’s a Pipal tree at the place where the station was established, and there was a room of the Hussainiwala railway station. 

Adding on, he said slowly-slowly the raw materials, like bricks, stones, Gadar of the station were robbed by the local goons, due to which there’s no existence of Hussainiwala station right now. The Hussainiwala railway station was the first established railway station during the time of partition in fact, before the partition of India and Pakistan, the people from the city Kasur of Pakistan used to come here and work in the workshop of Irrigation department, he added.   

Moving on, he stated that the rocks were brought all the way from Himachal Pradesh in trucks to increase the strength of the bank of the Satluj river. Also, these rocks were unloaded at the Hussainiwala railway station. Meanwhile, he told about the present existence of the workshop and said, the old cranes and cars are still standing like a garbage and the rest of the new machines are used for the irrigation purposes.   

Meanwhile, a guard who delivered lots of Pakistanis in Pakistan and bring back several of the Indians, from the Kasur city in a train, high lightened more on it. He told that in 1947 there was a station named Ganda Wala station, which was on the little distance to Hussainiwala station and all the Indian passengers were brought from the Kasur city of Pakistan via this path only. 

Adding on, he said that the trains and the tracks used to work after the partition as well, but after the battle of 1965, the traveling by train on this path stopped and in due time, the station vanished. There’s only one significance of the Hussaniwala station and i.e. the Pipal tree, and it’s very difficult to destroy it, maybe that’s why it’s still existed as the symbol of the historical railway station, otherwise, just like the room of the station, the tree could also have been demolished. 

But, here’s a big question on the railway officials as the there’s a big of the railways in Firozpur i.e. Firozpur railway division. While talking to the senior official of the railways, to know more about it, he said that the tracks are still there in our side and every year the train goes to the Hussainwala station for the two times. On the other hand, from the Pakistan side, the local people took off all the tracks and there are no signs from that side, he added.