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Mecca Station (Rusaiyfah) [38] [25] 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.
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
It was a part of the Ottoman railway network and the original goal was to extend the line from the Haydarpaşa Terminal in Kadıköy, Istanbul beyond Damascus to the Islamic holy city of Mecca. However, construction was interrupted due to the outbreak of World War I, and it reached only to Medina, 400 kilometres (250 mi) short of Mecca. The ...
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 ...
One line in Saudi Arabia, an 18 km (11 mile) line from Makka, Mecca operates for only one week a year for pilgrims only during the annual Hajj pilgrimage. It uses 17 twelve-car Chinese EMUs. An automated 11.5 km (7 miles) elevated metro to the Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University for Women in Riyadh, uses 22 two-car trains built in Italy ...
The Mecca Metro or Makkah Metro is a metro system with four planned lines in the city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia. The Metro was constructed by China Railway Construction Corporation [3] and is run by Mecca Mass Rail Transit Company (MMRTC). The metro forms part of the 62-billion-riyal Mecca Public Transport Programme (MPTP), which will include ...
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.
Saudi Arabia Railways, formerly the Saudi Railway Company, was established in 2006 to build, operate, and manage the north-south railway project. [5]Approval to merge the Saudi Railways Organization and Saudi Railway Company was announced in February 2021. [4]