Competent authorities in the Kingdom began the establishment of a railway to connect phosphate-mining areas, at the South of the Kingdom with Aqaba port. Work started in strengthening a part of the Hejaz railway from Al Hassa mines to Batn Al Ghool station and constructing a new railway line from Batn Al Ghool to Aqaba port in November 1972. The management of this railway line is entrusted to an independent institution called “Aqaba Railway Corporation”. In 1982, phosphate mines at Wadi Al Abyad were connected with the railway at Al Hassa branching section with a length of 22 km. Thus, total length of the railway became 292 km and it is intended to make the railway reaches the phosphate mine at Al Shaidiya and the industrial complex at Wadi 2 in Aqaba.

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