Saudi Arabia Railways
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Industry | Railway |
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Founded | 23 May 2006 |
Headquarters | Diplomatic Quarter, Building S-24, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia[1] |
Key people
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Nabil Al-Amoudi (Chairman)[2] |
Parent | Public Investment Fund |
Website | www |
Saudi Arabia Railways (SAR; Arabic: الشركة السعودية للخطوط الحديدية),[3][4] formerly the Saudi Railway Company, is the national railway company of Saudi Arabia. It is de facto a state-owned enterprise, as it is owned by the Public Investment Fund.
Saudi Railways Organization was also a major railway operator in Saudi Arabia, until it was merged into Saudi Arabia Railways on 1 April 2021.[5]
History
Saudi Arabia Railways, then the Saudi Railway Company, was established in 2006 to build, operate, and manage the north-south railway project.[6]
Approval to merge the Saudi Railways Organization and Saudi Railway Company was announced in February 2021,[5] and the Saudi Railways Organization was merged into the Saudi Railway Company on 1 April 2021.[7]
The combined company is now called Saudi Arabia Railways.[8][3]
Rolling stock
Class | Image | Top speed | Number | Remarks | Built | |
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mph | km/h | |||||
Talgo 350 | 100px | 220 | 350 | 36 trainsets | Operating on the Haramain High Speed Railway | 2015-2018 |
CAF push–pull train | 100px | 124 | 200 | 6 trainsets (75 Passenger cars & 12 Power Cars) | COMPOSITION: 4 trainsets 280m length (Mc-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-Mc) and 2 trainsets 381m length (Mc-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-Mc). Spanish manufacturer CAF has in 2013 delivered six diesel push-pull train, 4 nine-car trainsets is for daytime train schedule and 2 thirteen-car trainsets for night train. They are used on the Riyadh-Qurayyat Line.[9][10] | 2013 |
CAF push–pull train | 100px | 112 | 180 | 8 passenger units, 10 power cars (5001-5010) | Passenger trainsets with dedicated power cars. | 2011 |
EMD SD70ACS | 61 Diesel Locomotives [6][11] | Heavy haul AC diesel-electric locomotives for a mineral railway[12] | 2010-2016 | |||
ALCO RS-1 | 65 | 105 | 6 | Series 1000-1005 Diesel-electric locomotives. Originally Arabian American Oil Company A11x50-A11x51, 1002-1005 | 1947–1951 | |
EMD SW1001 | 5 | Series 1022-1026 Order 818000 1/5 Diesel-electric locomotives.[13] | 1981 | |||
NS Class 2400 (1954) | 100px | 50 | 80 | 7 | Secondhand Diesel-electric locomotives taken over from NS by Volker Stevin in 1976 for construction works for a seaport in Jubail. Former 2427, 2445, 2485, 2497, 2499, 2519, 2523. Renumbered into 101-107. Sold to Archirodon for rail reconstruction between Damman and Riyadh and renumbered to 276-04 - 276-09. Some scrapped in 1983. Others active until 1994 and stored in Hofuf afterwards.[14] | 1954–56 |
EMD G18 | 100px | 16 | Series 1006-1021 Orders 710971-710975, 713081-713082, 713233-713235, and 748005 1/6 Diesel-electric locomotives. | 1968–1976 | ||
EMD GP18M | 100px | 1 | Series 1200 Order 700178 Diesel-electric locomotives.[13] rated at 1500 horsepower | 1961 | ||
EMD FP7A | 100px | 2 | Series 1500-1501 Order 7019 Diesel-electric locomotives taken over from Arabian American Oil Company (their 1006-1007).[15] | 1953 | ||
EMD FP9A | 100px | 7 | Series 1502-1508 Orders 701553, 701493-701494, 702272-702275 Diesel-electric locomotives | 1956–1959 | ||
EMD GP38-2 | 1 | Series 2000. Order 712783. Diesel-electric locomotives | 1973 | |||
EMD GPL38S | 7 | Series 2001-2007. Order 201288865. Diesel-electric locomotives | 2015 | |||
EMD GT22CW | 100px | 3 | Series 2001-2003. Order 748004. Diesel-electric locomotives | 1976 | ||
EMD SDL38-2 | 6 | Series 2004-2009. Order 778050. Diesel-electric locomotives[16] | 1978 | |||
EMD SDL38 | 6 | Series 2030-2035. Order 20148061 Diesel-electric locomotives | 2016 | |||
EMD SDL50 | 100px | 31 | Series 3500-3530 Diesel-electric locomotives[17] | 1981–2005 | ||
EMD GT46ACS | 17 | Series 4300-4316. Orders 20118517 and 20148134. Diesel-electric locomotives | 2013–2015 | |||
Class 319.2 | 100px | 75 | 120 | >4 | Diesel-electric locomotives bought second hand.[18] |
See also
References
- ↑ http://www.sar.com.sa/Default.aspx?tabid=257&language=en-GB
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- ↑ PUSH-PULL TRAIN FOR THE SAUDI RAILWAY COMPANY (SAR)
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- ↑ Electro-Motive Diesel, Inc. Wins New Locomotive Contract for 25 SD70ACS Locomotives from Saudi Railway Company (SAR)
- ↑ HaRakevet: Rothschild PhD, Rabbi Walter (2010), New mineral railway Issue 90
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- ↑ Dierdorp, Sicco & Davy Beumer (2011), D.E.-Locomotieven serie 2200/2300 en 2400/2500. Alkmaar: De Alk
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External links
- SAR| Home - Saudi Arabia Railways official website
- Articles with short description
- Pages with broken file links
- Articles containing Arabic-language text
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- Government-owned companies of Saudi Arabia
- Government-owned railway companies
- Public Investment Fund
- Rail transport in Saudi Arabia
- Railway companies established in 2008
- 2008 establishments in Saudi Arabia