Saudi Railway Company Signs Blueprints to Link Riyadh with Five Cities

Riyadh will have rail links to 5 major cities under plans announced by the Saudi Railway Company (SAR).

The new trains will have an annual capacity of more than 2 million passengers as well as carrying cargo at a maximum speed of up to 200km per hour.

Under the project, announced by Sulaiman Khwaiter, Heard of Marketing and Public Relations at Saudi Railway Company, two main tracks should be completed in 2014, the first dedicated to carrying raw materials including phosphate, and the second moving passengers and freight. The railway network will span 2,750km. Five design blueprints have been signed.

From Riyadh, the trains will pass through Al-Mujamma’, Qasim, Hail, Jouf and Al-Quryyat, and link to the Saudi-Jordanian border at the Al-Haditha outlet. There will be a sub-branch at the agricultural city of Al-Busiyta, and nine cargo stations at Riyadh, Sadeer Industrial City, Qasim, Prince Majed Economic city in Hail, Jouf, Al-Haditha, Al-Busiyta’, Ras Alkhair and Jubail, said Khwaiter.