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The Gulf Railway project was approved by GCC member states at the 30th GCC summit in Kuwait City in December 2009. [6] [7] Saudi Arabia was the only GCC country to have any railway infrastructure at the time the project was proposed. [8] The original deadline to complete the project was 2018.
The individual rail projects comprise the Doha Metro, a mostly underground rail network which connects communities within Doha and its suburbs, the Lusail Light Rail Transit (LLRT), a tram network within the new city of Lusail in Qatar, and the Long Distance Passenger and Freight Rail connecting cities in the north and west with Doha, and the country with the forthcoming GCC rail system.
The GCC has also launched major rail projects to connect the peninsula. The railways are expected to fuel intra-regional trade while helping reduce fuel consumption. Over US$200 billion will be invested to develop about 40,000 kilometres (25,000 mi) of rail network across the GCC, according to Oman's Minister of Transport and Communications. [36]
A fourth high-speed rail project proposed by the Karnataka government would run 485 kilometres (301 mi) from Mysuru (Mysore) through Bengaluru (Bangalore) to Chennai, cutting the current nine-hour travel time to three hours (45 minutes between Mysuru and Bengaluru) at a cost of ₹ 1.15 trillion (equivalent to ₹ 1.2 trillion or US$14 billion ...
The Saudi Landbridge is a railway line currently under development by the Saudi Railway Company (SAR). [1]The 950 km (594 miles) ‘’Landbridge Line” has been planned to link Jeddah on the Red Sea coast with Riyadh, where it would link up with both the North-South Railway and the lines to Dammam, although no plan for construction has been announced.
The project had been delayed due to the ongoing Israel–Hamas war. [9] [10] The route is currently being used to bypass the Houthi blockade [11] and is widely seen as a way to future proof the India-Europe-US supply chain avoiding the Suez canal. [12] In June 2024, the Indo-Mediterranean Initiative (IMI) was started, aiming to track the ...
Rail transport in the United Arab Emirates is an expanding mode of transport. Etihad Rail is the national railway company, and is a state-owned company. [1] [2]
Workers laying track for the Hejaz railway near Tabuk in 1906. The first railway in Arabia was the Hejaz Railway, constructed by the Ottoman Empire from the Damascus to Medina. [3] This 1,050 mm (3 ft 5 + 11 ⁄ 32 in) narrow gauge railway opened in 1908, but closed in 1920 due to the Arab Revolt. Construction of the Dammam–Riyadh line in 1947