Classic route
SAR East Train
Riyadh → Dammam · Saudi Arabia
SAR East Train in pictures
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- Distance
- 449 km
- Fastest time
- 3 h 40 min
- Average speed
- 122 km/h
- Top speed
- 180 km/h
- Operator
- Saudi Arabia Railways (SAR)
- Train
- CAF diesel push-pull
- Countries
- Saudi Arabia
- In service since
- 1951
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Saudi Arabia’s first railway, the 1951 Dammam–Riyadh line built under King Abdulaziz, still crosses the Eastern desert and the vast Al-Ahsa oasis.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 8273934 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 3 m from it
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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