Saudi Arabia has completed the first stage of a train that will transport nearly 130,000 pilgrims through the holy sites in this year’s Haj season scheduled to start in November, newspapers reported ...

Some Muslims beginning the annual Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia on Sunday have a new way to avoid the crowds: an elevated light-rail that will whisk them between holy sites. The four-day Islamic ...

AS THE ever-increasing number of pilgrims for Hajj crossed three million last year, the Saudi Arabian authorities have embarked upon an ambitious project of 'Monorail' to facilitate smooth movement of ...

For centuries, the yearly Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca has been a massive logistical undertaking. Pilgrims have long piled into buses for overland journeys from India, onto ships for crossings of the Red ...

Saudi Arabia has launched the second phase of a landmark train project that was partly launched for the first time in the history of the sacred city during last month’s annual Muslim pilgrimage, the ...

Driver Raneem Azzouz takes her seat at the helm of a high-speed train ferrying pilgrims to Mecca, less than five years after Saudi authorities gave women the right to ...

Saudi authorities have authorised the start of the Al Mashaaer Al Mugaddassah Metro line in Makkah, a shuttle train for pilgrims which operates only during the Hajj season. The 18.1km line transports ...

06 February 2008 JEDDAH - The company engaged to conduct studies for the construction of the Western Region railway lines linking the holy city of Makkah to Jeddah, Rabigh and Madina has finalized the ...