RAWALPINDI, May 27: The Pakistan Railways (PR) has set up a heritage centre outside its station here to preserve and display more than 100-year-old railway heritage and to attract visitors to various models of engines and coaches.

Divisional superintendent Ishfaq Khattak told Dawn on Tuesday that since there was no building available he used the ground in front of his office to display the items.

Mr Khattak said he had conceived the idea after seeing some over hundred years old wooden coaches, narrow gauge and railway saloons along with some furniture items which were in dire need of preservation, adding that it could only be done by establishing a heritage centre which could later be converted into a museum.