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Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works (SLM) in Switzerland built a class of ten 2-8-0 locomotives for the Hejaz railway in 1912, numbered 87–96. They were later renumbered 150–159. Several were captured in 1918 by British and Empire forces or transferred in 1927 to Palestine Railways, which had taken over the Hejaz railway's Jezreel Valley branch in 1920. 153 (formerly 90) was transferred in 1927 and is pictured on the Jezreel Valley railway in 1946.The boiler for an SLM locomotive being unloaded at the port of Haifa, c. 1913
The Hejaz railway (also spelled Hedjaz or Hijaz; Arabic: سِكَّة حَدِيد الحِجَازsikkat ḥadīd al-ḥijāz or Arabic: الخَط الحَدِيدِي الحِجَازِي, Ottoman Turkish: حجاز دمیریولی, Turkish: Hicaz Demiryolu) 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 modern day Saudi Arabia, with a branch line to Haifa on the Mediterranean Sea.
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 completed Damascus to Medina section was 1,300 kilometres (810 mi).
The main purpose of the railway was to establish a connection between Istanbul, the capital of the Ottoman Empire and the seat of the Islamic Caliphate, and Hejaz in Arabia, the site of the holiest shrines of Islam and Mecca, the destination of the Hajj annual pilgrimage. Other objectives were to improve the economic and political integration of the distant Arabian provinces into the Ottoman state, and to facilitate the transportation of military forces.
The HejazRailway Museum (Arabic: متحف سكة الحجاز, Hejazi Arabic pronunciation: [mat.ħaf sɪk.kat al.ħɪ.dʒaːz]) in Medina is a railway museum that was...
The Vilayet of the Hejaz (Arabic: ولاية الحجاز Wilayat al-Ḥijāz; Ottoman Turkish: ولايت حجاز Vilâyet-i Hicaz) refers to the Hejaz region of Arabia when...
port) The HejazRailway 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...
Hadhramaut and Oman), Al-Bahrain (Eastern Arabia or Al-Hassa), and the Hejaz (Tihamah for the western coast), as described by Ibn al-Faqih. In antiquity...
al-‘Arabiyya al-Kubrā), was an armed uprising by the Hashemite-led Arabs of the Hejaz against the Ottoman Empire amidst the Middle Eastern theatre of World War...
the west of the station.[citation needed] The Hejazrailway, the 1,400 kilometres (870 mi) pilgrim railway that linked Damascus with Medinah, arrived in...
was merged into the Saudi Railway Company (now Saudi Arabia Railways) in 2021. The first railway in Arabia was the HejazRailway, constructed by the Ottoman...
began settling Circassians there. After the Ottomans inaugurated the Hejazrailway station in 1904, Amman became connected to other nearby cities, and...
Madinah (المدينة, al-Madina), is the capital of Medina Province in the Hejaz region of western Saudi Arabia. It is one of the oldest and most important...
Port of Haifa with the main part of the Hejazrailway, the Damascus–Medina line. Like the entire Hejazrailway, it was a 1,050 mm (3 ft 5+11⁄32 in) narrow...
gauge railways (1,050 mm (3 ft 5+11⁄32 in)) as of 2008. Railway companies in Jordan are: Hedjaz Jordan Railway, a direct descendant of the Ottoman Hejaz railway:...
journey from India to Hejaz. During the early twentieth century, the Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II constructed the HejazRailway between Damascus and Medina...
of the railway. Hedjaz Railway Aqaba Railway Corporation "Jordan HejazRailway مؤسسة الخط الحجازي الأردني.:.The Stations". English.jh-railway.com. Archived...
It used the tracks of the HejazRailway partly. It was closed in 2018 In 1908 the Ottoman Empire built the HejazRailway, that ran from Damascus to Medina...
defended by an even bigger Ottoman force complemented by the strategic HejazRailway. The siege began in October 1916 when the Arabs led by Hussein's son...
side roads. The HejazRailway built during the Ottoman Empire which extended from Damascus to Mecca will act as a base for future railway expansion plans...
project This was a branch of the HejazRailway between Haifa and Daraa in southern Syria where it joined the Hejaz main line. Construction began at Haifa...
by Buro Happold and Foster + Partners. Saudi Arabia Railways Transport in Saudi Arabia HejazRailway "Makkah to Medina in 90 minutes: Saudi king launches...
Anbariya Mosque was a part of the HejazRailway project next to al-Muazzim Railway Station, which houses the HejazRailway Museum. Saudi Arabia portal List...
extension of the Rumelia Railway and the Anatolia Railway, and construction of the Baghdad Railway and the HejazRailway. Systems for population registration...
forces and used as a base of operations for a series of attacks on the HejazRailway. (See HMS Anne for the British side of that operation). In the past...
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