The guardian Can only happen in egypt ========================= ‘Lost’ train of Egypt to be rescued from desert limbo ========================= Sand thwarted its progress and thieves stole its tracks, but locomotive is finally heading for Cairo ========================= Whether it was a runaway train or simply a train to nowhere, no one can quite agree. But, for now at least, one thing is clear: a “lost” locomotive stranded for years in the middle of the Egyptian desert is finally back on track. The yarn begins in 1996, when Egypt’s railway authorities opened a line to connect remote parts of the country’s Western Desert with a port on the eastern Red Sea coast. But the service was far from smooth, with the desert’s shifting sands often covering its tracks, making maintenance expensive. So the railway was forced to close. According to al-Masry al-Youm (AMAY), a private Egyptian broadsheet, one of the railway’s trains disappeared soon thereafter. Metal thieves had seized the opportunity to steal hundreds of tons of railway tracks, leaving the train abandoned in the desert, its whereabouts forgotten. After eight years of reconnaissance, AMAY’s story continues, the runaway train has finally been found. According to the government, the train may have been stranded on a railway without rails, but it was never lost. In 2006, the authorities tried to reunite the engine with the main network, Samir Nawar, president of Egypt’s railway, said. But that year there were severe mountain floods and, “because of the heavy rainfall in that area, the railway collapsed”, leaving the tracks and the plan adrift. About 150 kilometres of track was then stolen by thieves, Nawar admitted. But the train itself was always under the watchful eye of the state – unable to move, but sitting safely in Kharga station on the far west of the line. An online video of an abandoned railway engine – seemingly filmed by disgruntled residents of the Western Desert, and uploaded as early as 2011 – appears to corroborate Nawar’s narrative. But wherever the train ended up, there is greater clarity on the its new destination. According to the ministry, a private haulage company has won a £2m tender to lug the engine back to Cairo by lorry.A ======================== https://youtube/watch?v=_IhqnanYmmc ======================== Source of the article ======================== theguardian/world/2014/oct/29/train-egypt-desert-stolen-tracks ======================== #يسقط_حكم_العسكر #ارحل_ياعرص #مرسي_رئيسي حتى لو #انتخبوا_العرص #عسكر_كاذبون #آيات_عرابي #مرسي_رئيسي #انتخبوا_العرص #مش_احسن_مانبقى_زى_سوريا_والعراق #الفريق_الاعلامى #الايام_الحاسمه #وقالت_الصناديق_للسيسي_مفيش #هل_صليت_على_النبي_اليوم #اشتون_قاتله #مرسى_رئيسى حتىى لو #انتخبوا_العرص #هنعدم_السيسي #ارحل_ياعرص #يسقط_حكم_العرص #يسقط_حكم_العسكر #رابعة #مكملين #الانقلاب_العسكري #مصر #military_coup #Egypt #مرسي #السيسي_الممحون #ميحكمش #شعب_السيسي #كلنا_اخوان #انصاف_الاخوان #تحيا_مصر_بدون_العرص #العرص_يغردرح #العب_غيرها_يا_غبي #سيسي_نحس #احنا_متراقبين #رابعة_الثورة_والثأر #فالكون_طلعت_سوسن #رابعة_رمز_الصمود #الجيش_خربها #الجربوع_سرق_المشروع #ضنك #السيسي_خربها #انتخبوا_العرص #العسكر_يحكم #المشيرة #ارحل_ياعرص #مصر_لها_رئيس #مرسي_رئيسي #يسقط_حكم_العسكر #مصر_تحت_الاحتلال #حرامية_المشاريع #هنخلع_العرص #إبداع_الاحتجاج #عين_العقل #الانقلاب #مكملين #مصر_الليلة #العرص_ميتر #عسكر_فاشلون #العرص_ابن_سعاد #الطشت_ابن_سعاد #قانون_التظاهر #انتفاضة_الازهر #رجعوا_التلامذة #الموجة_الخضراء #انتخبوا_العرص ====================
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