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Ad-Damazin (Arabic: الدمازين, romanized: Ad-Damāzīn) is the capital city of Blue Nile, Sudan. It is the location of the Roseires Dam and power generation plant. Ad-Damazin is served by a terminal station of a branch line of the national railway network. However, the train service to Ad-Damazin has been discontinued many years ago.
Railways in Sudan. Total: 7,251 km Narrow gauge: 5,851 km 0.600m gauge: 1,400 km (2014) [1] The main line runs from Port Sudan on the Sudanese coast to Khartoum via Atbara. A link also exists between Hayya and Sennar via Kassala. Other lines connect Ad-Damazin with Malakal in South Sudan and Nyala with Geneina and al-Fashir. [2]
The Gezira Light Railway, one of the largest light railways in Africa, evolved from tracks laid in the 1920s' construction of the canals for the Gezira Scheme. At the time, rail had about 135 route km of 2 ft (610 mm) narrow gauge track. As the size of the project area increased, the railway was extended and by the mid-1960s consisted of a ...
Ad-Damazin is the capital of the state. The state of Blue Nile is home to the Roseires Dam , the main source of hydroelectric power in Sudan until the completion of the Merowe Dam in 2010. Languages
About 72 percent of the railway's freight revenue is paid electronically. [5] Passenger Reservation System (PRS): A nationwide online passenger reservation and ticketing system, developed and maintained by CRIS, was developed in C and Fortran on a Digital OpenVMS operating system using RTR (Reliable Transaction Router) as middleware.
A train ticket is a transit pass ticket issued by a railway operator that enables the bearer to travel on the operator's network or a partner's network. Tickets can authorize the bearer to travel a set itinerary at a specific time (common for long-distance railroads), a set itinerary at any time (common for commuter railroads ), a set itinerary ...
Ad Damazin is a district of Blue Nile state, Sudan, [1] [2] with a total population of 186,051 as of 2015, making it the biggest city in the region of Blue Nile, and the closest airport to Ad Damazin is the Damazin Airport. The district itself is also raised 485 meters above sea level.
The MARS-1 train ticket reservation system was designed and planned in the 1950s by the Japanese National Railways' R&D Institute, now the Railway Technical Research Institute, with the system eventually being produced by Hitachi in 1958. [6] It was the world's first seat reservation system for trains. [7]