Jordan 24.9.2008: After three days of visiting tourist sites like Petra and Wadi Rum, the tour group returned to Amman station for the journey north to Dera’a, in Syria. The group’s train was hauled by Pacific No. 85 (Nippon 1953, but builders’ plates say 1959, the year of delivery to Jordan). The train consisted of a bogie van for the group’s luggage, an old Hedjaz coach and two air-conditioned coaches, built new on former bogie wagon frames for the short-lived Aqaba – Wadi Rum steam service.
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