The Project

In 1976 the only existing railway in the Dammam-Riyadh corridor was the single track line of about 560 km connecting Dammam to Riyadh passing through the towns of Dhahran, Abqaiq, Hofuf, Harad and Al-Kharj. The S.R.O., aiming to develop the railways sector, entrusted Technital to carry out the final design and the works supervision relating to the upgrading of this line, which involved the complete redesign of the horizontal layout of the alignment with the introduction of geometric elements suitable to modern operative standards.

Successively Technital was entrusted with the feasibility study, preliminary and final designs, and works supervision of a new high speed railway line between the capital, Riyadh and Dammam, the main Saudi port on the Persian Gulf. The first part of this line, up to Hofuf, represents the doubling of the existing one.

The project also includes all the ancillary facilities, above all the three main railway stations of Dammam, Hofuf, Riyadh and the maintenance installations, including a Major Maintenance Workshop in Riyadh for the maintenance of the Diesel-electric locomotives, a Running Repair workshop for rolling stock in Riyadh, and a Running Repair workshop for passenger cars in Dammam.