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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.
Route map 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 HHR has a service speed of 300 km/h (186 mph), making it the first high-speed railway in Saudi Arabia and West Asia. [4] Construction began in March 2009 and the railway was officially inaugurated on 25 September 2018, [5] opening to the public on 11 October 2018. [6]
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
Rail transport map of Saudi Arabia. The GCC Railway network can be seen in yellow. The planned railway would begin at Kuwait City, pass through Dammam and Al-Batha Port [] in Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi and Al Ain in the UAE, and then enter Oman through Sohar before terminating at Muscat.
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 ]
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.
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 ...