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In summer 1942 was conquered by the Italians (with Rommel's Afrika Korps) the railways line built by the British and New Zealanders [6] from Egypt until Tobruk, near the Egyptian-Libyan border. But a few months later the Marsa Matruk-Sollum-Tobruk line was back in Allies control. [7] Until the 1950s the railways remained active.
Tobruk remained in Axis hands until 11 November 1942, when the Allies captured it after the Second Battle of El Alamein. It remained in Allied hands thereafter. Although not as much a reason for its strategic significance, the British built a rail line from El Alamein to Tobruk during the course of the war. This rail line was significant both ...
The coastal railway had reached Sidi Barrani by October 1941 and Tobruk by December 1942, 640 km (400 mi) west of El Alamein. [3] The 125 km Libyan section, west of Sallum , on the Egyptian border, was removed following its closure on 20 December 1946, but the Egyptian Railways Sollum line still sees occasional freight.
Libya has had no railway in operation since 1965, all previous narrow gauge lines having been dismantled. Plans for a new network have been under development for some time (earthworks were begun between Sirte and Ras Ajdir, Tunisia border, in 2001–5), [1] and in 2008 and 2009 various contracts were placed and construction work started on a 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) standard gauge ...
Russia, which had purchased rolling stock for the planned rail line to Kyiv, used the trains on its Moscow-Nizhny Novgorod line. In January 2023, Ukraine Railways signed an agreement with the Polish government to develop a standard-gauge high-speed rail line from Warsaw through Lviv to Kyiv with a 250-km/h operating speed. [273]
Since the line was equipped with a block safety system in 1969, remote monitoring of train traffic at most stations on the line has been possible. In 2005, the Rail Control Center in Landquart assumed the former tasks of the remote monitoring station at Filisur. The Bever substation was modernised in 1973. Successive extensions to the passing ...
Karachi–Peshawar Line (Main Line 1) [4] 1881: 1,687 kilometers (1,048 mi) 176: 30-32 hrs: 1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in) broad gauge: Major stations. Karachi City; Karachi Cantonment; Kotri Junction; Hyderabad Junction > Hyderabad-Khokhrapar Branch Line, Hyderabad-Badin Branch Line; Nawabshah Junction; Rohri Junction > Rohri–Chaman Line (Main Line 3 ...
During the Italo-Turkish War in 1911, Tobruk was the landing point for 35,000 Italian soldiers under the command of Carlo Canvey . [5] During World War II, the port, one of the most valuable deep water ports in North Africa, was fortified by 12,000 British and Indian troops and 14,000 Australian troops.