THE HEJAZ RAILWAY

Heinrich Meissner was the steady hand at the helm of the vast project to build the Hejaz Railway. At the beginning of the construction in...

For several decades the Krauss 0-6-0T at Hedia Station in Saudi Arabia stood upright on a short siding to the east of the depot....

The Bedouin of the Hejaz saw the coming of the 'iron donkey' as a threat to their traditional means of livelihood - the hiring and...

The main station building at Medina, the southern terminus of the Hejaz Railway, originally had one storey. The station's inauguration...

Although the contribution of the French in Arabia during the First World War is not as well known as that of the British, they played an...

View from the top of the hill T. E. Lawrence climbed to survey Abu Na'am Station (just visible at the end of the clip) for his first raid...

German-built Hartmann 2-8-0 with a line of derelict carriages and wagons abandoned at Medina Station when the Hejaz Railway fell into...

The twin-peaked Jebel Antar, towering over the Hejaz Railway in what is now Saudi Arabia, signalled to the weary pilgrims that their long...

A unique aspect of the Hejaz Railway was the way in which it was financed. In 1900, Sultan Abdulhamid II called upon the Islamic...

There can be few railway stops in the world as remote and desolate as Jeda'a Station. Cast adrift in a vast sand-swept wilderness, the...