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Tenders for Makkah-Madinah Rail Link to be Accepted by Mid- year
JEDDAH - Tenders for the design of stations on the Makkah-Madinah Rail Link (MMRL) project will be accepted by the middle of this year, according to Abdul Aziz Al-Hoqail, president of the Saudi Railway Organisation (SRO).
He said that tenders for constructing rail tracks and installing electricity, communication and signalling systems as well as for the import and operation of bullet trains will be accepted in the last quarter of this year.
Al Hoqail said in Dammam on Wednesday, after attending a meeting of SRO’s board of directors, that the first phase of the project would be ready by April 2012 and the second phase by December 2012. which will mark the experimental operation.
He said work on the project would start in April, and added that an agreement for implementing the project would be signed next week.
The Al Rajhi consortium has won the SR6.79 billion contract for the civil works of MMRL or Haramain Railway project that will link the two holy cities of Makkah and Madinah with the business and port city of
The project includes construction of electric railway lines with a total length of 450kms, complete with signal and communication systems and five stations.
Transport Minister Jabara Al-Seraisry said the MMRL with high-speed trains would be an ideal solution to transportation problems faced by millions of pilgrims each year.
Al Hoqail said the expected journey time on the proposed 300 km per hour bullet trains would be half an hour between Makkah and Jeddah, and two hours between Madinah and Jeddah.
“Bullet trains between the two holy cities, a first in the
He said that the SRO supplied all documents for the first stage of the project to the competing consortiums in April last year with three months for the submission of tenders.
· habib@khaleejtimes.com
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