Dar'a – Bosra railway line

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Al Taibe Railway Station
Dar'a-Bosra
Route length: 39 km
Gauge : 1050 mm
Route - straight ahead
Main line from Damascus (see above)
Station, station
0.0 Dar'a
Station, station
Ghares
   
Main line to Medina (see above)
Road bridge
Amman – Damascus motorway
Station, station
Al Taibe
   
10.5 Wadi
Railroad Crossing
Roman road from Bosra
Station, station
Hajom
Railroad Crossing
Roman road from Bosra
Station, station
39.0 Bosra Gleisdreieck
End station - end of the line
Bosra amphitheater

The Dar'a – Bosra line was the second branch line of the Hejaz Railway after the Haifa – Dar'a line . It was built with a gauge of 1050 mm and leads from the Dar'a station on the Hejaz Railway to the city of Bosra .

The 39 km long route was first built in 1911/1912. It runs through the Hauran Plain, a flat, fertile landscape. There were therefore no significant topographical difficulties to be overcome during construction. The railway was supposed to open up this granary and strengthen military control over a main settlement area of ​​the Druze . At the beginning of the First World War, however, the line was dismantled again in 1914, as its rails and sleepers were needed for the military-required extension of the Haifa – Dar'a line towards the Sinai front.

After the war, the railway fell into the French- controlled mandate of Syria . The existing lines there were operated by the Damas – Hama et Prolongements (DHP) railway company. In 1924 she relocated the Dar'a – Bosra railway line.

Today there are no longer any trains running on the route as planned, but it is still passable. There are special trips, for example on the occasion of the Bosra Festival to and from Damascus or for rail enthusiasts.

literature

  • Jürgen Franzke (Ed.): Baghdad and Hedjaz Railway. German railway history in the Middle East . Nuremberg: W. Tümmels 2003 ISBN 3-921590-05-1
  • Hermann Guthe : The Hejaz Railway from Damascus to Medina: its construction, its significance , Leipzig 1917
  • Johannes Müller, Syria and the Hejaz Railway, in: Damp und Reise - Überseeische Bahnen 1/89.
  • Dieter Noll (Ed.): The Hejaz Railway. A German railway in the desert. German Society for Railway History, Werl 1995, ISBN 3-921700-68-X .
  • William Ochsenwald: The Hijaz Railroad . University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville 1980
  • Jürgen Franzke (ed.): Bagdadbahn and Hedjazbahn. German railway history in the Middle East . Nürnberg 2003. ( ISBN 3-921590-05-1 ), pp. 125-138.
  • R. Tourret: Hedjaz Railway . Tourret Publishing, 1989 ISBN 0-905878-05-1
  • James Nicolson: The Hejaz Railway . Stacey International Publishers 2005 ISBN 1-900988-81-X
  • Khairallah, Shereen: Railways in the Middle East 1856-1948 (Political and Economic Background). Beirut, Librarie du Liban, 1991 ( ISBN 1-85341-121-3 ).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ For example, as part of a DGEG study trip in February 2007