Hejaz Railway Museum
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The Hejaz Railway Museum in Medina
is a railway museum
that opened in 2006. It is on the grounds of the restored historic Ottoman
railway station at Medina, locally called "Istasyun", including a stretch of the historic track and a train shed with originally four tracks. There are several engines and pieces of rolling stock on display, some of which has been transported to the museum from other places along the historic Hejaz railway line. At least one engine has been restored enough to be able to drive on the museum tracks. It is along with the old train station at Mada'in Saleh one of two museums in Saudi Arabia
dedicated to the Hejaz railway.
Medina
Medina , or ; also transliterated as Madinah, or madinat al-nabi "the city of the prophet") is a city in the Hejaz region of western Saudi Arabia, and serves as the capital of the Al Madinah Province. It is the second holiest city in Islam, and the burial place of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad, and...
is a railway museum
Railway museum
A railway museum is a museum that explores the history of all aspects of rail related transportation, including: locomotives , railway cars, trams, and railway signalling equipment.See List of railway museums...
that opened in 2006. It is on the grounds of the restored historic Ottoman
Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman EmpireIt was usually referred to as the "Ottoman Empire", the "Turkish Empire", the "Ottoman Caliphate" or more commonly "Turkey" by its contemporaries...
railway station at Medina, locally called "Istasyun", including a stretch of the historic track and a train shed with originally four tracks. There are several engines and pieces of rolling stock on display, some of which has been transported to the museum from other places along the historic Hejaz railway line. At least one engine has been restored enough to be able to drive on the museum tracks. It is along with the old train station at Mada'in Saleh one of two museums in Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia , commonly known in British English as Saudi Arabia and in Arabic as as-Sa‘ūdiyyah , is the largest state in Western Asia by land area, constituting the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and the second-largest in the Arab World...
dedicated to the Hejaz railway.
External links
- There are several pages at Nabataea.net with pictures related to Medina. Navigate to the Medina page, the Medina Station Museum page, the Medina Station page and the Medina Station Locomotives page
- A list of the eleven locomotives of the Hejaz railway that have survived including six at Medina is cited here, discussing the origin of some. Most of the information is taken from the German book “Die Hedschas-Bahn – Eine Deutsche Eisenbahn in der Wüste”, by Dieter Noll/Benno Bickel/Ahmad v. Denffer, DGEG, 1995.
- Picture gallery with pictures among others of the fully restored functional engine 105 according to the plate on this picture.
