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Share of the Baghdad railway, issued 31 December 1903 [1]. The Baghdad railway, also known as the Berlin–Baghdad railway (Turkish: Bağdat Demiryolu, German: Bagdadbahn, Arabic: سكة حديد بغداد, French: Chemin de Fer Impérial Ottoman de Bagdad), was started in 1903 to connect Berlin with the then Ottoman city of Baghdad, from where the Germans wanted to establish a port on the ...
Eventually, service to Kirkuk commenced in August 1925 while the foundations for the Kirkuk-Baghdad-Haifa Railway were laid beginning in 1930. In 1949, a 105-kilometre extension to Erbil started construction and the first train arrived in Erbil by 1950. The current Transversal Line and the railway mentioned above only share minimal trackage.
The Line connects Baghdad to the phosphate mining village of Akashat. Between 2009 and 2024 the only section in use was the 65-kilometre-long section from Baghdad to Falluja. On October 8, 2024, the connection to the rest of the line finished reconstruction. On October 11, 2024, the first Train departed Ramadi for Baghdad after a fifteen-year ...
With the addition of the daily 120 kilometres (75 mi) Ramadi train, two lines now operate on the railway. Trains leave Ramadi at 6 am and return from Baghdad at 3:30 pm. The Train to Ramadi costs 4000 dinar and the Train leaving Ramadi 5000 dinar. First-class options cost 2000 dinar extra. Each train can carry 350 passengers.
UN Map; Official website; On Track on line – web log showing some recent photos; Andrew's Locomotive and Rolling Stock in Iraq Page—excellent website with comprehensive roster of IRR locomotives; occasionally updated with news from Iraq. Iraq Railway Network Detailed map of railway routes in Iraq by the United Nations Joint Logistics Centre
Aleppo railway station (Arabic: محطة قطار حلب) more commonly Gare de Baghdad (Arabic: محطة بغداد), is the 2nd oldest railway station in Syria and the main station of the city of Aleppo. It was opened in 1912 as part of the Berlin–Baghdad railway. [1] The first ever trip from the station was towards the town of Jarabulus.
Baghdad Central Station is the main train station in Baghdad. [1] It links the rail network to the south and the north of Iraq.The station was built by the British and designed by J. M. Wilson, a Scot who had been an assistant to Lutyens in New Delhi and who subsequently set up a practice of his own in Baghdad. [2]
The Berlin-Baghdad Express: The Ottoman Empire and Germany’s Bid for World Power is a book by Sean McMeekin, first published in 2010.It looks at efforts made by Imperial Germany during the First World War to use its connections with the Muslim world to defeat the British Empire, including directing an Islamic jihad against it.