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Western Oasis Lines
Western Oases Railway, 1917
Technical
Line length125 miles (200 km)
Track gauge2 feet 6 inch (762 mm)
Route map

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Western Oasis Lines
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Oasis Junc.[1]
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Kharga

The Western Oasis Lines or Western Oasis Railway (W.O.R.) built and operated a 125 miles (200 km) long narrow gauge railway with a gauge of 2 feet 6 inch (762 mm) in Egypt.[2]

  1. ^ Ifan Lloyd: "Narrow Oasis Junc. to El Kharga." In: Keith Taylorson: Gauge at War 2.
  2. ^ World-wide 30" Gauge Railways.

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