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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.
Other lines connect Atbara and Sennar with Port Sudan, and Sennar with Ad-Damazin. A 1,400-kilometer line serves the Al Jazirah cotton-growing region. There are plans to rehabilitate rail transport to reverse decades of neglect and declining efficiency. [1] Service on some lines may be interrupted during the rainy season.
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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.
Train station is the terminology typically used in the U.S. [3] In Europe, the terms train station and railway station are both commonly used, with railroad being obsolete. [4] [5] [6] In British Commonwealth usage, where railway station is the traditional term, the word station is commonly understood to mean a railway station unless otherwise specified.
Share of the Baghdad railway, issued 31 December 1903 [1]. The Baghdad railway, also known as the Berlin–Baghdad railway (Turkish: Bağdat Demiryolu, German: Bagdadbahn, Arabic: سكة حديد بغداد, French: Chemin de Fer Impérial Ottoman de Bagdad), was started in 1903 to connect Berlin with the then Ottoman city of Baghdad, from where the Germans wanted to establish a port on the ...
As of 2006, there is a small railway museum at the station in Mada'in Saleh in Saudi Arabia [25] and a larger project in the "Hejaz Railway Museum" in Medina, which opened in 2006. [26] The museum, which is dedicated to the history and archeology of Medina is 90,000 square meters. [ 27 ]
Hejaz railway station (Arabic: محطة الحجاز, French: Gare du Hedjaz) is a former main railway station in central Damascus, Syria, close to the Marjeh Square.It was built as part of the Hejaz railway project.