Damascus - Getting There By Rail
Trains services are as slow as they are unreliable and not often used. Syrian Railways (CFS) (website: www.cfssyria.org) runs domestic services from Damascus to Aleppo, Latakia and Tartous, as well as international services with a weekly train from Damascus to Tehran, and the weekly Toros Express via Aleppo, Gaziantep in southern Turkey to Haydarpasha station on the Asian side of Istanbul. A slow twice-weekly narrow-gauge train links Damascus with Amman in Jordan (223km/139 miles), running over part of the famous Hejaz Railway (website: http://nabataea.net/hejazad.html), the line attacked by TE Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) and the Arabs during the Arab Revolt in 1917. The train should be running again from summer 2007.
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