page_title: Faiyum Light Railway
section_title: Takeover and continuing use
hierarchical_section_title: Faiyum Light Railway / Takeover and continuing use
caption_attribution_description: English: Historic stock exchange certificate of Anglo-Belgian Company of Egypt
context_page_description: The Fayoum Light Railway was a 750 mm gauge Egyptian light railway. Founded by a group of Egyptian Coptic investors, it operated in the first half of the twentieth century.
context_section_description: The majority of the shares in the Fayoum company (80%) was transferred in 1906 to the Anglo-Belgian Company of Egypt, which had been organized in the same year in London for this purpose. It also owned some properties in the centre of Cairo, for instance the garden of the Ghezireh Palace Hotel and the ground of the French Institute.  Baron Georges de Reuter became the first president of the company. He was a relative of Baron Paul Julius von Reuter, the founder of the news agency Reuters Telegraphic Co.
  Joseph Kfoury, who owned and operated already some coach lines in the Fayoum province, acquired a significant part of the shares of the Fayoum Light Railways Company in 1939, and was nominated to be its manager. Its headquarters were located in the al-Immobilia building at this time.
  Some of the stock exchange certificates were re-issued on 1 May 1944, which demonstrates that the company still existed during World War II, although no time tables for passenger transport had been issued since 1938. After the war, operations ceased, although the government's concession would have been valid for 70 years, i.e., up to 1972.
caption: Stock certificate of the  Anglo-Belgian Company of Egypt, 1906, showing a train in front of a pyramid
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