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Expansion and renovation work ongoing.

 

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Saudi Arabia re-operates high-speed train

450km-long service links Makkah and Madina

Published: December 11, 2019 19:34 Ramadan Al Sherbini, Correspondent

The Haramin train in a photo released by the official Saudi news agency SPA.Image Credit:
Cairo: Saudi authorities on Wednesday re-operated a high-speed rail service, more than two months after it was halted due to a blaze, an official statement said.

On September 29, a fire broke out at a station in the western city of Jeddah, partially damaging the facility and grounding the service to a halt.

The service, launched last year, connects Makkah and Madina via Jeddah.

On Wednesday, the service, officially known as the Haramain Train, resumed from the station of the New King Abdul Aziz Airport in Jeddah to Madina. The journeys between Makkah and Madina are expected to resume next week.

The 99,000-square-metre station linked to the New King Abdul Aziz Airport can accommodate about 3,205 passengers per hour, the official Saudi news agency SPA reported.


A journey on the train covers 450 kilometres between Makkah and Madina and takes two hours. The project, the kingdom’s hugest public transport facility, aims to carry 60 million passengers annually and cope with the growing numbers of Muslim pilgrims flocking to Islam’s holiest sites there.

https://gulfnews.com/world/gulf/saudi/saudi-arabia-re-operates-high-speed-train-1.68421849

Jeddah KAIA Station

 

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Rarely if ever is the Al-Masjid al-Haram this empty.

Corona virus, in case people wonder.

 

[PakFactor]

I was their last month for Umrah the last few groups before the ban -- deeply sad to see the emptiness their, may Allah protect all the Muslims.

 

[ArabianEmpires&Caliphates]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1239698847041011712

https://twitter.com/x/status/1241139697461743620

I was their last month for Umrah the last few groups before the ban -- deeply sad to see the emptiness their, may Allah protect all the Muslims.

Did you have a nice trip? Makkah is currently one giant construction ground and far from the finished product. Expansion projects are going on in both Makkah and Madinah as documented in this thread.

Any photos (if you don't mind) from the trip would be appreciated. Nothing personal, just photos of the surroundings.

 

[PakFactor]

Did you have a nice trip? Makkah is currently one giant construction ground and far from the finished product. Expansion projects are going on in both Makkah and Madinah as documented in this thread.

Any photos (if you don't mind) from the trip would be appreciated. Nothing personal, just photos of the surroundings.

It was my 1st time going with my mom and wife, me and the misses been suffering from infertility for 6 years since our marriage and thought it’s about time to go to Mecca and Medina.

I will say hands down the best experience of my life coming to the City of Prophet where our religious roots were laid and seeing our Nabi, no religion on earth can give one this experience. In Mecca lots of construction going on within the premises and still fully accessible to people they did a very good job in managing the project.

Over all I will say I loved Medina the best because even our Nabi loved it whenever he came back home. And Medina people are those who gave shelter to him for me they hold a very special place in my heart.

Sure I will load the pictures tomorrow I took them on HD Nikon Camera just have to load them on the PC.

 

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So what did you decide bro? The article thing

 

[ArabianEmpires&Caliphates]

It was my 1st time going with my mom and wife, me and the misses been suffering from infertility for 6 years since our marriage and thought it’s about time to go to Mecca and Medina.

I will say hands down the best experience of my life coming to the City of Prophet where our religious roots were laid and seeing our Nabi, no religion on earth can give one this experience. In Mecca lots of construction going on within the premises and still fully accessible to people they did a very good job in managing the project.

Over all I will say I loved Medina the best because even our Nabi loved it whenever he came back home. And Medina people are those who gave shelter to him for me they hold a very special place in my heart.

Sure I will load the pictures tomorrow I took them on HD Nikon Camera just have to load them on the PC.

Any news on this front?

So what did you decide bro? The article thing

Sorry, I must have missed your post/quote, as I was receiving 10's of quotes at the same time as I was busy engaging in numerous discussions in various threads all at the same time during my "PDF writing spree" visists. I apologize.

Well, I used to do that back in the day, the audience was there, but I am not sure if there will be many nowadays given that many great PDF contributors having left since the "golden age" of the forum. I feel the political climate (at least as seen on PDF) is not right for it or for that matter the world. I might give it a go though sometime in the future if I am still around and people would want some perspective on this front. The best thing for PDF (moderation team and those dealing with the forums PR on social media) would be to attract Arab users again if wanting a bigger Arab perspective on topics. However I am afraid that traditional forums are dying with most Arab contributors having moved to social media platforms such as Twitter and other social media platforms.

 

[El Sidd]

 

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https://twitter.com/x/status/1256222086718242824

Emptiness and Ramadan.

 

[El Sidd]

What the travel requirements for religious pilgrimage to Makkah and Madina for Pakistani passport holders as per Covid19 measures?

 

[aziqbal]

is the railway between Makkah and Madina now operational ?

if so how is the tickets and open for pilgrims?

 

[Gomig-21]

What the travel requirements for religious pilgrimage to Makkah and Madina for Pakistani passport holders as per Covid19 measures?

The only place that would give you the most accurate answers to questions like yours is the Saudi consulate in Canada or in Pakistan, wherever you are at the time. They would have the complete list of action and requirements etc. As far as I know, they've set up a limit for the number of people that will be permitted to perform the pilgrimage. If I'm not mistaken, they only allowed 1000 Saudi Arabians only to attend last year's hajj. They shut off any traveling into the country for it and refunded a lot of money to many people who had already paid.