2015 Completion Date for Bahrain Causeway Feasibility Study

The new King Hamad Causeway between Saudi Arabia and Bahrain’s feasibility study will be completed early next year. It is expected to run parallel with the current King Fahd Causeway, which was opened in 1986.

The new causeway will carry trains and cars. Trains from Bahrain will be able to travel right across the GCC as part of the GCC Railway Network, which expected to be completed by 2018. This will be a branch line off the network from Saudi.

Part of the feasibility study will be to do a costing and a preliminary design, and these will be announced on completion of the study.

The feasibility study for the 25km causeway was announced during a meeting between King Hamad bin Eisa al Khalifa of Bahrain and King Abdullah, Saudi Arabia’s Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques in September.

At present there is only one link between the two Kingdoms, the King Fahd Causeway which only carries road traffic. The King Hamad Causeway enables Bahrain to link in with the GCC Railway Network, and will improve trade between the Saudi Arabia and Bahrain.