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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.
The Riyadh–Qurayyat line is a railway line in Saudi Arabia that connects the cities of Riyadh and Qurayyat. The 1,242 km line [1] [2] begins at Qurrayat and passes through Al-Jouf, Hail and Al-Qassim regions before terminating in Riyadh. The line shares infrastructure with the SAR North–South Railway line between Buraidah and Al Nafud.
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 .
After many false starts, plans to resurrect a railway in Pakistan's teeming metropolis of Karachi are moving ahead. Not everyone is happy. Karachi railway revival faces shanty town delay
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 .
The Thar Express (Hindi: थार एक्सप्रेस, Urdu: تھر ایکسپریس, Rajasthani: थार एक्सप्रेस, Sindhi: ٿر ايڪسپريس) was an international passenger train that ran between the Bhagat Ki Kothi a suburban area of Jodhpur in the Indian State of Rajasthan and Karachi Cantonment of Karachi in the Pakistani Province of Sindh.
The main railway station buildings with active passenger service opened in Riyadh, Dammam, and Hofuf in 1981. [3] The present passenger railway line (Dammam-Riyadh Railway Line 1) from Riyadh to Dammam via Buqayq and Hofuf, measuring 449 km (279 mi), was completed in 1985. Along with the decrease in distance, this shortened the time taken for ...