Lebanon’s Derelict Railway Network

Lebanon’s Derelict Railway Network
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Lebanon once had over 400 kilometers of railway lines, some of which connected Beirut to Damascus in Syria and Haifa, a coastal city in present-day Israel. However, today all of the train stations stand abandoned and the locomotives that once ran the line, lay in decay.

One of the many Lebanese wars, the civil war which ran from 1975 to 1990 effectively put an end to rail transportation in the country, and despite many dreams that it shall be restored, this is all looking very unlikely. .

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2020-1-31 13:42

Источник: boredpanda.com

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