A century ago, it was possible to travel by train from Haifa in then-Palestine to Damascus in Syria and as far south as Jordan and Arabia on the Hedjaz Railway, a huge network of narrow gauge lines built between 1900-1910 by the Turks and their German allies. In Palestine, the line traversed several rivers on stone bridges before crossing the border to Syria. Here’s a typical Hedjaz Railway bridge, in the northern Jordan Valley. This line does not exist anymore – there are no rails on the bridge. South of Tiberias, 2000.
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Photo and scan by Alon Siton <a_siton@hotmail.com>