second largest railway in all of Asia after China. It will link all the Gulf states,
enthusiasm and may exclude one of them if the situation with Doha is not completely correct.
Gulf Cooperation Council countries, I agreed in the year 2000 to a project of lines of
railway side to connect Arabian Gulf region. Starting from the city of the
Kuwait, passing through all the GCC countries and reaching the city of Muscat by train
It will be called the Gulf for transporting tourists and passengers and facilitating movement
between the GCC countries will have a length of railways exceeding two thousand and one hundred.
and the cost of implementing the project exceeds fifteen billion dollars, but
many of the Gulf Cooperation Council countries that no longer have the same Arab
railways to pass through Qatar, according to the latest statements of transportation officials in countries, which
cooperation, although the intention is to extend the second longest railway on the tenth continent
in a first phase linking Saudi Arabia, the Emirates and the Sultanate of Oman and ending
thousand and twenty-three. While the second phase ends in the year 2000
and twenty-five by linking Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain via a parallel bridge,
the current King Hamad Causeway. At a cost alone that reaches four points, two
billion US dollars. The speed of passenger trains will be two hundred in the year two
twenty kilometers per hour. As for the speed of transporting goods, it will reach 100
twenty- seven kilometers per hour. Although the plans of the Arab Gulf states were the
operation of the project began in the two thousand and eighteen, but the economic obstacles
politically and geographically. The launch has been postponed repeatedly, the last of which was in the year two thousand and
, at a time when the hopes of these countries remain to link their countries through one of the longest
rail networks in the world during the years. Especially since the UAE has completed a
most of its internal railways, in preparation for the connection between Saudi Arabia on the
and the Sultanate of Oman on the other. The project is based on the completion of each country for its
its internal national railways in an integrated manner and in harmony with the
The final form of the Gulf Railways railways. Before every two countries established
two neighboring countries by linking these internal railways to each other across the border . What
will eventually lead, according to the basic project plan, to finding a path for
railway with a total length of two thousand one hundred and seventeen kilometers, the
Metra. Increasing the number of train users through the rail network ensures
Gulf, with a large percentage of up to thirty-seven percent in the year of
twenty-eight years. It is scheduled that the Gulf commercial train
with locomotives and a group of diesel fuel vehicles with the aim of generating power,
railways pass to transport passengers and goods between the Arab Gulf states, starting
the GCC railway track from Kuwait through Dammam to
Bahrain and from Dammam to Qatar through the Salwa port, with linking Qatar, the
Bahrain via a bridge that was to be implemented between the two countries, in addition to
linking Saudi Arabia with the United Arab Emirates, provided that electric
Hadid from Abu Dhabi and Al Ain to Muscat via Saha. Recently, the
that the dream of the Arab Gulf train approached more than any time with the announcement of
Emirates to finish digging and equipping the longest railway tunnel in
the Gulf region. This tunnel passes with a length of one interval of eight kilometers, in
in the Hajar Mountains. After it was excavated and equipped using the latest technologies,
Railway project . By digging in difficult rocky mountainous terrain. Which means the completion of the
The largest tunnel equipped for the Gulf train out of nine tunnels, some of which
have already begun . Along the Gulf railways. It also approached
completed the completion of a large part of the national railway projects.
As a prelude to linking it with the GCC railways. While the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has
Bahrain supports by modernizing the railway tracks of the Gulf Cooperation Council countries within it.
Bahrain will be linked to Saudi Arabia via the GCC
council. Through the bridge to be established between the two kingdoms, in parallel with
the current King Hamad Bridge was completed . Infrastructure will be prepared for a
link through the establishment of an island on which the passenger terminal and freight yard will be located.
addition to linking the station to the road network inside Bahrain. In Kuwait,
identification of the two main railway projects with a total length of five hundred in
and seventy-four kilometers, including the route of the first phase between the Saudi
Al-Wasib and Al-Khafji in the south to connect with Saudi Arabia to the Mubarak Al-Kabeer port,
Bubiyan Island, in the northeast of the country. The route of the second phase will be Al
to link the Shuwaikh and Shuaiba ports to the national railway network. Adding
link with Iraq at the Abdali Safwan port remains, and with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
port in the west of the country and the Salmi port. Although Qatar and Oman signed the
consulting contracts for the preparation of engineering designs for the Dole International
railways and the national railway projects in each of them. However,
recent Gulf crisis and the boycott of Qatar by some of the cooperation countries, the
The possibility of the passage of the Gulf train from Qatar is questionable and speculation. This is something that
movement of the cooperation countries towards the completion of the Gulf train. While silence surrounds the
point on Doha, which seems to link the Persian Gulf through the largest
of the continent's projects, is still not among its interests.