“I wouldn’t see my kids as much as I would see the train.” The Qadam station was the workhorse of the iconic Hejaz Railway that was built under the Ottoman Empire’s Sultan Abdulhamid II in ...

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Yet in Saudi Arabia this blinkered view is changing. Riyadh has spent nearly a million dollars on a museum devoted to the Hejaz Railway—the storied Arabian version of the Orient Express ...

Deep in the desert, far from the Turkish held Hejaz railway, Lawrence conducted his guerrilla operations from this oasis town. Finding it: Azraq lies an hour by road east of Amman Wadi Rum ...

“The country is so rich in history. “We have found Bronze Age tombs, 4,000-year-old rock carvings, and mechanical treasures from the old Hejaz railway, now named for the provinces it passes ...