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The first 5 miles (8.0 km) were a rock causeway and the last couple of miles a section made of a steel trestle. One of the first vessels to unload was a Dutch freighter, in 1950, with a load of rails for construction of the line. The first trains started moving between Dammam and Riyadh in the early 1950s. [1]
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 ...
SRO trains on this route travel at around 180 km/h (113 mph). The line was used by approximately 1.48 million passengers during 2017 between stations in Dammam, Abqaiq, Hofuf, and Riyadh. [3] This other line (Dammam-Riyadh Railway Line 2) is restricted to transport of freight and cargo.
It will involve the construction of a 950 km line from Jeddah Islamic Port to Riyadh, and a 115 km line from Dammam to Jubail. [12] [13] North-South line [14] The Gulf Railway project is a propose railway network of 2116 km linking all GCC countries. The length of the track inside Saudi Arabia would be 663 km. [15]
Transport in Saudi Arabia is facilitated through a relatively young system of roads, railways and seaways.Most of the network started construction after the discovery of oil in the Eastern Province in 1952, with the notable exception of Highway 40, which was built to connect the capital Riyadh to the economically productive Eastern Province, and later to the Islamic holy city of Mecca and the ...
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.
This was postponed to 2021 at a meeting of GCC transport ministers in Riyadh in April 2016. [ 9 ] In November 2015, Saudi Railways Organization (SRO) President Mohamed Al Suwaiket stated that implementation of the GCC Railway had begun in Oman and the United Arab Emirates, and would begin in Saudi Arabia within 2 months. [ 10 ]
Tabuk station. 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.