{"id":360,"date":"2008-09-21T19:00:48","date_gmt":"2008-09-21T18:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=360"},"modified":"2013-04-24T18:43:56","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T18:43:56","slug":"iraq-rail-investment-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/iraq-rail-investment-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq rail investment plans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Iraq Development Program<\/a> has a report from Noozz dated May 19 about various railway development plans. It is illustrated with a UK Class 323 EMU in Centro colours!<\/p>\n

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Iraq to invest $6 billion in railways to boost trade and tourism<\/a><\/h3>\n

Iraq will spend over $6 billion over the next few years to develop its railway infrastructure for passenger and freight services, connecting the whole country via a central hub encircling Baghdad according to the general director of the Iraqi Railroads Company. <\/p>\n

Alaa ad-Deen Sadiq, the general director of the Iraqi Railroads Company, one of the enterprises of the ministry of transportation, told Al-Bayyina newspaper that the ministry has approved two giant projects for implementation and that a third is currently being discussed. <\/p>\n

An unnamed international company has been awarded a design and modernization contract for the $1 billion Baghdad circle line<\/strong> railway. Construction on the project has already begun, and once completed it will encircle Baghdad, creating a 112km hub for all rail traffic moving across the country.<\/p>\n

The project also includes the construction of two new passenger stations and a goods yard in south-west Baghdad, and three rail bridges, two across the river Tigris and one across the river Diyala.<\/p>\n

Two new railways will be built in the second project linking Baghdad with Iraq’s southern sea ports for travel, tourism or commerce: Baghdad-Kut-Nsiriyya-Basra<\/strong> and Baghdad-Kut-Imara-Basra<\/strong> lines, at an estimated cost of $3 billion.<\/p>\n

25 medium to large stations will be built along the lines, in addition to 20 interchange stations connecting to other railways, and a freight goods yard.<\/p>\n

No details of completion dates were given in the report.<\/p>\n

Sadiq revealed that a $2 billion railway to connect northern Iraq with Iran<\/strong> is in the planning stage, and will connect several major cities in the Iraqi Kurdistan region. <\/p>\n

The 430km Baghdad-Kirkuk-Irbil-Mosul<\/strong> railway will serve as the central feeder line between Baghdad and the north, with central stations in Kirkuk and Mosul will feed two lines to Iran: Khanaqin-Munthiriyya-Khisravi-Qsr-Shirin-Kermanshah<\/strong>; and Khanaqin-Munthiriyya-Iran<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

He did not give any details of where the line will run in Iran or the names of Iranian partners involved in the project.<\/p>\n

Iraqi Railroads Company is undertaking modernization work on Iraq\u2019s dilapidated railway infrastructure, the report said, highlighting efforts to install a fibre optic laser signaling system, signals, and a communications network, as well as announcing plans to integrate Iraq\u2019s railways with neighbouring countries to increase tourism and commercial exchanges.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Iraq Development Program has a report from Noozz dated May 19 about various railway development plans. It is illustrated with a UK Class 323 EMU in Centro colours! Iraq to invest $6 billion in railways to boost trade and tourism Iraq will spend over $6 billion over the next few years to develop its railway […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[36,38,89],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2650,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions\/2650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}