Abandoned Buildings of the Muzzam Station, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

This is a film photo that I took in 2001 in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, I recently have it scanned and digitalized .
The photo shows the buildings of t...
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This is a film photo that I took in 2001 in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, I recently have it scanned and digitalized .
The photo shows the buildings of the Old Mu’zzam Station that was part of the Hejaz Railway that ran from Damascus to Medina, through the Hejaz region of Saudi Arabia, it was one of the principal railroads of the Ottoman Turkish Empire and a vital route across the desert.
The railway was built in 1900 following the directives of the Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II and was supposed to extend all the way to Mecca in order to facilitate the Hajj pilgrimage to the Holy city. But its primary motive was to strengthen the Ottoman Empire’s control over the most distant of the Empire.
The railway reached only as far as Medina, some 400 kilometers short of its planned final destination (Mecca). When the First World War broke out, all construction works on the railway came to a halt, then the Arabs, led by the British officer T. E. Lawrence, better known as Lawrence of Arabia, rose up in revolt against Turkish domination, the railway became the principal target.
Perhaps if you have seen the movie “Lawrence of Arabia” will remember some of the scenes when the Arabs group attacked the railway carriages loaded with Turkey soldiers.
Many of the railway stations are still standing there, abandoned in the Saudi Arabia's desert, since this portion of the railway was abandoned in 1920.
Some parts of the Hejaz railway are still in operation in Syria and Jordan.

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