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Dammam: 1981 Abqaiq: 1981 Al-Hofuf: 1981 Riyadh: 1981 SAR Cargo Line. Station name Region Opened ... King Abdulaziz International Airport, Jeddah: 11 December 2019
The terminal can only be accessed via Route 605, a secondary expressway linking the cities of Khobar and Dammam in the south, and Qatif in the north; to the airport. Route 6466, a minor road and spur of Highway 40, links the highway to Route 605 and the airport. SAPTCO offers bus connections from Khobar and Dammam to the airport.
The present passenger railway line (Dammam-Riyadh Railway Line 1) from Riyadh to Dammam via Buqayq and Hofuf, measuring 449 km (279 mi), was completed in 1985. Along with the decrease in distance, this shortened the time taken for the journey between the two cities from 7 hours to 5 hours.
The Ministry of Transport in 2014 maintained a total estimated road length of 627,000 km, of which 151,000 km were highways linking major regions of Saudi Arabia with international borders and serving as interconnecting roads between the major Saudi Arabian cities; 102,000 km were secondary roads linking major cities with other smaller cities in their respective provinces; 374,000 km were ...
Construction of the Dammam–Riyadh line in 1947. Modern railways were introduced in Saudi Arabia after World War II, to facilitate the transport of goods for the Arabian American Oil Company, or Aramco (now Saudi Aramco), from ports located on the coast of the Persian Gulf to warehouses in Dhahran. Construction began in September 1947, and the ...
Khobar is served by the largest airport in the world in terms of surface area: King Fahd International Airport. The airport plot is about 77,600 hectares (776 square kilometers) in area, which is slightly bigger than the country of Bahrain. [4] and it is located 20 km (12 mi) northwest of Dammam. From Khobar, the terminal is approximately 50 km ...
The North–South Railway line is a 2,750 km (1,709 mi) network of railway lines in central and eastern Saudi Arabia, built and operated by the Saudi Arabia Railways.The primary line of the network connects the capital of the kingdom, Riyadh, to the border with Jordan at Al-Haditha.
Highway 613 (Arabic: الطريق السريع ٦١٣), popularly known as the Dhahran–Jubail Expressway (Arabic: طريق الظهران–الجبيل السريع) and the Khobar–Dammam–Dhahran Expressway (Arabic: طريق الخبر–الدمام–الظهران السريع), is a major north-south controlled-access secondary highway in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia ...