Talk:Hejaz railway

message: I'm curious why this article was merged to this name, which seems to be the least used transliteration of the name on Google -
*"Hijaz Railway" - 48 hits
*"Hedjaz Railway" - 248 hits
*"Hejaz Railway" - 1520 hits
I'd suggest "Hedjaz" (as the form most commonly used at the time of construction) or "Hejaz" (most common today) would be more appropriate if the aim is for people to find this article. -- Arwel 20:33, 8 Dec 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: And I've moved it. You are right of course. Anjouli 20:56, 8 Dec 2003 (UTC)

text: The article started out as the Hedjaz railway, then got merged into another article on the Hijaz railway, hence the comment above about the most common transliterations, then it was moved back to Hedjaz railway and now has been moved to Hejaz railway. I don't mind which we finally settle on as long as we don't have long chains of REDIRECTs since I believe double-redirects don't work. Arwel 18:54, 13 Dec 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: And I have now edited all the other transliterations to redirect directly to Hejaz_railway. Arwel 19:01, 13 Dec 2003 (UTC)

text: I think it should go back to Hijaz. Google shows that that's more common (over 46000 English-language hits as opposed to 42000 for Hejaz; it's also more accurate and here in Syria at least it seems to be more commonly used for the railway. 
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As to the metal sleepers used in some areas, the stealing of wooden ones wasn't necessarily the only reason.  In many climates wood does not survive at all well, and thus other materials are often used -- iron or steel being the most practicable at the time of construction of most narrow gauge railways.  This is the reason for them being used on the Eritrean Railway, for example.  These days, concrete would of course be used.  --Morven 08:34, 15 Dec 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: earlier comments

message: I thought that the main reason for this was that Abdul Hamid II was overthrown and his successor wasn't as enthusiastic about the whole Hejaz railway project. What do reliable sources say? -- Ynhockey (Talk) 21:58, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lack of continuation to Mecca 

message: I noticed that the article [Hedschasbahn] on the German Wikipedia has much more detailed route information. I translated one of the tables. Any opinions whether these route-tables, and iother info from the German article, may be a useful addition here?
:sorry forgot to sign!  17:29, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Another try. Bleddynefans (talk) 17:30, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Route details

message: :The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 
The result of the move request was move. Jafeluv (talk) 09:57, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 

message: There seems to be some confusion about the definition of the term Hejaz Railway.  This article defines it as the section from Damascus to Medina but the article İstanbul Haydarpaşa Terminal defines it as the entire railway from Istanbul to Medina.  Can anyone clarify this? Biscuittin (talk) 16:26, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Definition 

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message: We should, and then link them. I'll try and start it here. I'm combining the names from the line plan/sketch + list from the lead + infobox map. Very helpful: this map from Saleh Musa Daradkeh, The Hijaz Railway pp. 205-208.
In the end we should primarily have the old, original Ottoman stations with the names used before WWI. NB: did the Ottomans use different transliterations for the various European languages, or did they offer just French, or maybe English or German? Next to the original names we can place the current Arabic ones, but separately. Modern additional branch lines should also be marked differently.
This list should be processed together with the History of the Hajj page, as the railway stations and the Syrian hajj route largely overlap and present similar identification and linking issues (see Talk:History of the Hajj#Darb el-Hajj needs own article + more info here).
[Many hours later: I have removed the material after inserting it into the article :) ] Arminden (talk) 13:28, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Identify stations 

message: It should be redone:
#The heading is "The railway in 1908", but on the map it says "1914". Which one is it? During WWI a lot of branch lines were added.
#It is full of mistakes (see topic here-above: badly mistead names, probable repetition etc.).
#It is in (more or less) Italian.
#The German article has a partially better version, but A. it's in German, and B. only this one has a very useful inset map for Damascus-Daraa section.
Arminden (talk) 13:52, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Infobox map ("The railway in 1908")