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D. WESTERN ROUTES

ROUTE 17

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HEJAZ RAILWAY

SOUTHERN SECTION, MACAN TO MEDINA

Authority: W.O. Roport. and information obtained by Egyptian W.O.
General Direction: S.
Distance : Crow-fly, 4G0 miles ; rail, 52G miles.
i Character, Rolling-stock, and Supplies : see pp. 37 ff.

Dist. km. Alt.
Inter- Station.
Total. ft.
med.
0 0 3,435 MA;AN Important depot, 458-8 km.
from Damascus. About a dozen
grey stone and red-tiled build­

ings on right (W.) side of line.
Good water supply from well
about 10 ft. deep, and also a
small spring, sometimes dry.
Seven sidings about 250 metres
each. Engine-shed, turn-table,
coal-store, and repairing shop
(pit, and hand tools). Goods
shed -with loading platform 50
r’ yards long. Stone water-tower
with steam pump. Across road
from station some shops, and
stone houses of railway inspec­
tors ; also officers’ mess (ex­
hotel). SW. of station, about
200 yards away, are small bar­
racks for 500 men.
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; Graded and well-metalled car­
riage road to Ma'an el-Misrxyah

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