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Highway 40 (Arabic: الطريق السريع ٤٠) is a major east–west six-lane controlled-access highway in Saudi Arabia, spanning 1,395 km (867 mi).The highway connects Jeddah, the second-largest city in the kingdom, on the western coast of Saudi Arabia to Dammam, the sixth-largest city on the eastern coast and the largest in the Eastern Province.
The Makkah Central Station is located near the 3rd Ring Road, in Rusaiyfah District near the Rusaiyfah park and ride to the Grand Mosque. The Jeddah Central Station is located on Haramain Road, in Al-Naseem District. The railway alignment route is on the median of the Haramain road. Medina has a passenger station.
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 ...
Madinah (Medina) [1] [2] 11 October 2018 King Abdullah Economic City [3] 11 October 2018 King Abdulaziz International Airport, Jeddah: 11 December 2019 Jeddah Central: 11 October 2018 (out of service since 29 September 2019) Makkah (Mecca) 11 October 2018
Medina, [a] officially Al-Madinah al-Munawwarah (Arabic: المدينة المنورة, romanized: al-Madīnah al-Munawwarah, lit. 'The Luminous City', Hejazi Arabic pronunciation: [al.maˈdiːna al.mʊˈnawːara]) and also commonly simplified as Madīnah or Madinah (المدينة, al-Madina) and known in pre-Islamic times as Yathrib (يَثْرِب), is the capital of Medina Province in the ...
New Madinah airport test operations began on 12 April 2015. A Saudia domestic flight coming from Riyadh landed at 11 a.m. at the new Prince Muhammad bin Abdulaziz International Airport in Madinah, marking the start of the airport's test run operations. Flight SV1435 was the first to land at the airport.
Map showing the Ottoman railways on the eve of World War I Railroad spikes of the old Jezreel Valley railway (part of the Hejaz railway), found near Kfar Baruch. Prior to the construction of the line, it took 40 days from Damascus to Medina. [2]
The Al Mashaaer Al Mugaddassah Metro Line (English: The Sacred Sites Train Line, (Arabic: قطار المشاعر المقدسة, romanized: Qiṭār Al-mašāʕir Al-muqaddasa, standard pronunciation: [qitˤaːr almaʃaːʕir almuqaddasa], Hejazi Arabic pronunciation: [gɪtˤaːr almaʃaːʕɪr almʊgaddasa]), is a metro line in the city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia.