Classic route
SAR North Train
Riyadh → Qurayyat · Saudi Arabia
- Distance
- 1,242 km
- Fastest time
- 11 h
- Average speed
- 113 km/h
- Top speed
- 200 km/h
- Operator
- Saudi Arabia Railways (SAR)
- Train
- CAF push-pull (day & sleeper)
- Countries
- Saudi Arabia
- In service since
- 2017
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
At 1,242 km Saudi Arabia’s longest passenger line strikes north from Riyadh across the Great Nafud desert to Qurayyat near the Jordanian border.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 13880224 — 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 4 m from it
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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