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Haramain Railway

The Haramain railway track will run parallel to King Abdul Aziz Road. The 444-km high-speed railway will link Makkah and Madinah via Jeddah. The route has been finalised for the rail project and the locations identified for stations in Makkah, Jeddah and Madinah. After the finalisation of the route, Al-Rajhi Alliance, which won the first construction contract worth SR. 6.79 billion of the Haramain railway, has started executing the civil works of the ambitious project. The first phase of the project will include preparing the ground, constructing bridges, culverts and tunnels for laying track. The second phase will include electrification, power supply, installing communication and signaling systems and deploying rolling stock. The rail track will be equipped with high-speed electric trains with a capacity of 320km per hour. It will reduce the travel time between Makkah and Madinah to two hours and between Jeddah and Makkah to 30 minutes. The trains will also transport passengers from King Abdul Aziz International Airport to the holy cities. Abdul Aziz Al-Hoqail, president of Saudi Railway Organisation (SRO), said the project would be completed by the middle of 2012 and pilot operations on the track would be conducted for a period of six months until its official launch in November the same year. Source: Haj & Umra Magazine, Volume 64, Issue 7, July 2009 See Also:

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