Defunct state-owned railway company of Saudi Arabia
Saudi Railways Organization
Passenger train on the Dammam-Riyadh Line.
Native name
المؤسسة العامة للخطوط الحديدية
Founded
13 May 1966; 57 years ago (1966-05-13)
Defunct
April 1, 2021 (2021-04-01)
Fate
Merged into the Saudi Railway Company (now Saudi Arabia Railways)
Headquarters
Dammam railway station,
Dammam
,
Saudi Arabia
Area served
Saudi Arabia
Key people
Abdullah Bin Abdulrahman Al-Muqbil (Chairman)
Rumaih Mohamed Alrumaih (President)
Revenue
SAR 535 million[1] (2014)
Website
saudirailways.org
The Saudi Railways Organization (SRO) (Arabic: المؤسسة العامة للخطوط الحديدية) was a state-owned railway company that operated part of Saudi Arabia's rail network, along with the Saudi Railway Company (now Saudi Arabia Railways). The SRO operated a network of railways with a total length of approximately 1,380 kilometers. The network consisted of two main lines. A 449 km passenger line that links Dammam with Riyadh, and a 556 km freight line that connects the King Abdul Aziz Port in Dammam with Riyadh.
There are plans to extend the network to the Red Sea port of Jeddah and, eventually to the borders of Jordan, Yemen, and perhaps all the way to Egypt.[2]
Approval to merge the Saudi Railways Organization and Saudi Railway Company was announced in February 2021,[3] and the Saudi Railways Organization was merged into the Saudi Railway Company (now Saudi Arabia Railways) on 1 April 2021.[4]
Rail transport map of Saudi Arabia. SRO operated on the both red lines.
^"Passengers & Cargo Statistics" (PDF). Archived from the original on 28 April 2016. Retrieved 14 June 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
^"Welcome in Saudi Rail Ways". Archived from the original on 28 September 2007. Retrieved 1 August 2008.
^"Saudi Railways Organization and Saudi Railways Company merger approved". Global Railsay Review. 19 February 2021. Retrieved 20 February 2021.
^"سياسي / مجلس الوزراء يعقد جلسته ـ عبر الاتصال المرئي ـ برئاسة خادم الحرمين الشريفين وكالة الأنباء السعودية". Archived from the original on 17 February 2021.
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