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Description
Property Name: Hijaz Railway Station Tabuk
Inventory No: –
Date of infill of the inventory form: 2020
Country (State party): Saudi Arabia
Province: Tabuk
Town: Tabuk
Geographic coordinates: 28°23’15.80″N 36°33’40.36″E
Historic Period: Beginning of 20th century
Year of Construction: 1906
Style: Ottoman – Hijazi
Original Use: Railway Station
Current Use: Museum
Architect: Unknown
Significance
Construction on the Hejaz Railway connecting Damascus to Medina started in 1900 under the Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II. The al-‘Ula station was toward the end of the line. It was abandoned when the line stopped working in 1920. The station house, fortifications, windmill, and water tower are still on the site, as are cars of derelict trains.
One of the stations located on the railway line that connected between Damascus and the Hijaz, was established during the reign of Sultan Abdul Hamid II and was inaugurated in 1906 AD, and it was destroyed during the First World War. It can be qualified for multiple tourism activities.
Selection Criteria
ii. to exhibit an important interchange of human values, over a span of time or within a cultural area of the world, on developments in architecture or technology, monumental arts, town-planning or landscape design
vi. to be directly or tangibly associated with events or living traditions, with ideas, or with beliefs, with artistic and literary works of outstanding universal significance
State of Preservation
Partly preserved
References
Commission of Tourism and Heritage
Archnet.org