Badrud – Shiraz railway line
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The Badrud – Shiraz railway line is a single-track railway line in Iran .
Traffic geography
The route is the southern part of the Tehran - Qom - Isfahan - Shiraz connection . It branches off from the Qom – Zahedan railway line in Badrud and leads to Shiraz via Isfahan. From here it is to be extended to the Persian Gulf with the Shiraz – Asaluyeh railway line .
history
The line was opened between Bardud and Sistan in 1970 and extended to Isfahan in 1979. From there, an extension to Riz followed in several steps in the 1980s . Operations on the newly built line to Shiraz began in early 2012.
traffic
Initially, there was a continuous connection over the entire route to Tehran only twice a week. A higher frequency of the offer initially failed due to the insufficient number of cars available . Today a pair of trains is offered here every day, as well as on a few days on the Isfahan – Tehran route. The travel time is 16 hours.
Buildings
The station building of the terminal station of Shiraz is the largest of the Iranian State Railways (RAI) after the Tehran station .
literature
- Islamic Republic of Iran Ministry of Roads and Urban Developement - Deputy for Construction & Developement of Railway, Airport and Ports: [ Map of the Iranian railway network ]. Status: August 2014.
- Neil Robinson: World Rail Atlas . Vol. 8: The Middle East and Caucasus . 2006. ISBN 954-12-0128-8 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information for Qom – Riz according to Robinson, plate 43; Information for Isfahan – Shiraz according to Google maps .
- ↑ HaRakevet 95 (December 2011), 95:08 Other Middle East Railways, C. Iran, (iii) Massive Expansion Plans , p. 16.
- ↑ Robinson, pp. 19, 21.
- ↑ HaRakevet 99 (December 2013), 99:08 Other Middle East Railways, FA Iran (iii) Traffic Developments p. 14.
- ↑ HaRakevet 99 (December 2013), 99:08 Other Middle East Railways, FA Iran (iii) Traffic Developments p. 14
- ↑ Timetable. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on April 2, 2020 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) .
- ↑ Shiraz station on the homepage of the city of Shiraz.