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Etihad Rail was founded in June 2009 following the passage of Federal Law No. 2. [1] In April 2024, Etihad Rail and Oman Rail announced a new joint venture, Hafeet Rail, that will construct 300 km (190 mi) of new railway to connect the Etihad Rail network at Abu Dhabi with the port of Sohar, Oman, passing through Al Ain. [8]
[24] [25] The Etihad Rail network opened for cargo only on February 23, 2023. In April 2024, Etihad Rail and Oman Rail announced a new joint venture, Hafeet Rail, that will construct 300 km (190 mi) of new railway to connect the Etihad Rail network at Abu Dhabi with the port of Sohar, Oman, passing through Al Ain. [26]
In 2006, DB was commissioned to carry out a feasibility study for a rail network in the UAE. DB (and since 2016, DB E&C) supported the rail infrastructure development in a joint venture, Etihad Rail DB, and advised on-site. The key focus was implementing and monitoring test operations on the built and equipped lines and their transfer to ...
Etihad Rail DB was a heavy-rail Operations & Maintenance (O&M) service provider in the UAE. [1] [2] The company was set up in 2013 as a joint venture between Etihad Rail (51%), the developer of the UAE's national railway network and Deutsche Bahn (DB) (49%), Europe's largest railway operator and infrastructure owner. [3]
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
The Hejaz Railway was a narrow gauge railway (1,050 mm / 3 ft 5 + 11 ⁄ 32 in track gauge) that ran from Damascus to Medina, through the Hejaz region of Saudi Arabia, with a branch line to Haifa on the Mediterranean Sea. It was a part of the Ottoman railway network.
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Saudi Arabia Railways (SAR; Arabic: الشركة السعودية للخطوط الحديدية), [2] [3] formerly the Saudi Railway Company, is the national railway company of Saudi Arabia. It is de facto a state-owned enterprise , as it is owned by the Public Investment Fund .