A new tourist train service will begin operating in Mafraq on Saturday, marking the launch of the first heritage rail trips ...

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Director-General of the Jordan Hejaz Railway Corporation Zahi Khalil on Tuesday says that inspections are currently underway along the railway line from Mafraq to Al Safr area in Syria prior to ...

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 ...

The Jordan Hejaz Railway Corporation (JHR) on Wednesday operated a special journey on board the historic train, decorated with the Jordanian flag, along a “symbolic route” that reflects the ...

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