Plans for a railway connecting Saudi Arabia and Egypt have been confirmed
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Travel between Saudi Arabia and Egypt is about to get a lot easier. Railway plans for Saudi Arabia and Egypt have been confirmed and are ready to be implemented soon.
The bridge between the two countries was first announced by Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud during a visit to Egypt in 2016, which would complement the megacity NEOM.
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“We have now completed the planning for the bridge between Egypt and Saudi Arabia and are ready to implement it at any time – whether a bridge or a tunnel,” Kamel al-Wazir told Reuters at an economic conference organised by the American Chamber of Commerce in Egypt.
He added that the high-speed train line connecting Egypt’s south would skirt the edge of the pyramids area in the desert while simultaneously serving the site.
The proposed railway plans for Saudi Arabia and Egypt route initially went through the site of Abydos, where Egypt’s first pharaohs were buried 5,000 years ago, but has since been diverted to pass above and away from the antiquities site now.
Also, per Reuters, Egypt has been expanding its railways across several other axes (seven to be exact), he said. The trains include three high-speed lines that would connect Sokhna Port on the Red Sea with the Mediterranean and Alexandria in the north and with Aswan in the far south.
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