Head of Egyptian Railways: The arrival of the first train to Bir al-Abd in decades is a new epic for the Egyptian state

Engineer Mohamed Amer, head of the Egyptian National Railway Authority, said that the railway line between Al-Ferdan and Bir Al-Abd took more than a year and a half to work on, at a cost of more than two billion pounds.

Amer added, during a telephone conversation with the “Hazrat Al-Citizen” program presented by journalist Sayed Ali, on the “Al-Hadath Al-Youm” screen, on Monday evening, that the people of North Sinai received the arrival of the first train via this line with great happiness, especially school children.

He explained that the Bir al-Abd region had not witnessed the arrival of any train since 1967, describing what happened as a new epic added to the Egyptian state’s efforts to develop infrastructure.

Amer added that the experimental goal was to operate the eastern part of the line, which is connected to the western part, noting that the connection with Sinai has become available with all parts of the republic via the railway network.

He continued: “Work has been completed on the line up to the city of Bir al-Abd, while the next phase will extend from Bir al-Abd to Al-Arish.”

– Trial operation of the train through the Suez Canal

Today, Monday, Bir al-Abd station received the first train coming from Ismailia Governorate, via the Al-Ferdan Crossing Bridge above the Suez Canal, in an event attended by Lieutenant General Kamel Al-Wazir, Deputy Prime Minister for Industrial Development and Minister of Transport and Industry, Major General Dr. Khaled Megawer, Governor of North Sinai, and Major General Akram Jalal, Governor of Ismailia, along with a number of executive and popular leaders, and tribal sheikhs.

The Ministry of Transport announced the start of trial operation of railway trains on the Al-Fardan-Bir al-Abd railway line, which extends for 100 km in the Sinai Peninsula.