Saudi Arabia: The Desert Railway

As we entered the Riyadh railway station, in Saudi Arabia; our starting point is the front box office. This is where passengers may buy their tickets for their journey.

A list of ticket prices and destinations are made available for passengers to choose from. Depending on the class, tickets prices vary. A first class ticket costs one hundred and twenty riyals, equivalent to 32 USD while an economic ticket may cost as low as sixty riyals, 16 USD.

The trains operate on a fixed schedule providing five daily trips between "Riyadh" to "Al Hofuf" and from "Abqaiq" to "Dammam." The journey between each station consists of a four hundred and forty-nine kilometers ride. The twenty-five year old train takes around three hours to travel from Riyadh to Hofuf.

The train consists of three classes separated according to price and feature. The top seating class is "Al Rehab", which offers private seating but lacks entertainment servic. The second seating class is called "Al Talla'ea," has smaller seats. The third class seating is the "Qafela", seats passengers at the end of the train.

Translated by: Shounaz Mekky
Reported by: Mohammed Al Yousy
Voice: Mustapha Ajbaili

By: Ikram Al Yacoub
Al Arabiya

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[Brilliant130]

قطارات مغبره من عهد الصحابه

[LickLuck1]

فـــاشـــل

good-for-nothing ... 400 km in 5 hours !! with a bad air condition place !!

5 ساعات 400 كيلومتر يعني سرعته 80 كيلو في الساعة .. غير الحر والتكييف المتعطل احيانا ً كثيرة .

[zakaslam1]

saudi ariabia king abdullah is a KUFER ! we muslims are one , the saudi pigs are responsible for inviting anti muhammad pbh western armies who glory jesus son of mary as god

[ABHAWE61]

الحمد لله والشكر ادفنو الفديو يرحم والديكم لا يجي سائح ويسال عن هذا القطار وينصدم

[abadiqaisy123]

amaizing! stop talking shit guys, look up on saudi they are best modern and building trains is not a failure or something, its great arabic countries are getting better and better, insppired by this traibn, when did they build it ?

[maramiishow]

@Charliecmo fuck you !!!!! How dare you telling bad words to my country !!

[maramiishow]

@ZaraOver hhhhhh

[ZaraOver]

ويييي فشله

[LickLuck1]

@puketinho That's right , but we saudia had money to build dozens of the best modern trains in the world .

China , Japan , U.S , Singapore , Malaysia , etc ... they used to get the best trains for Transportation .

and Saudi Arabia , used this stupid silly train for Hajj !!!! Haj means Islam , means Muslims they should get the best and the most modern special Trains Ever .

LOT OF THIEF'S CONTROLLING THIS PROJECT .

[puketinho]

Auf dieses Video antworten... I can give a suggestion or request to saudi environment dept, they should ask each haji who comes for haj, should plant one tree .In one year you will be having 3 million trees. In few years your desert will be green, climate will change ,more rain will fall.

[puketinho]

@LickLuck1 Still train looks very clean , people, and staff very clean ,station is very clean .Saudia is getting modern.

[Hamanidirector]

@charliecmo Why??????? Please, tell me why?? I beg you!!!