The Stations

The stations, engine shed, lines and installations are in a fine state of preservation at Al Hijr (Mada'in Salih) railway station. The station is comprised of 16 buildings and a water reservoir. The buildings included rest houses for passengers, staff housing, a fortress, and storerooms for luggage, a shed for repairing locomotives, a workshop for fixing engines and lavatories.

Strongly built stone stations, with an army garrison, were placed at intervals of 20 km throughout Hijaz Railway which ran from Damascus to Madina

The landscape of Hijaz Railway in Mada'in Salih could be one of the best locations Ottomans had.

A view of the Railway workshop from a rest house