Allied Military Locomotives of the Second World War

• Our book: Allied Military Locomotives of the Second World War.
• World War Two Railway Study Group covers all aspects of railways during WW2.
• Alexandros C. Gregoriou's site has pages on USATC and WD locomotives in WW2.
• Article from 1966 on the Longmoor Military Railway.

Railways of Palestine and Israel

• Our book: The Railways of Palestine and Israel.
• Israeli Railways official site in English (also in Hebrew and Russian). Includes a little information on the Railway Museum at Haifa.
• RailNewsIL unofficial site about today's railways in Israel, mainly in Hebrew but some English translations.
• Article by Sybil Ehrlich (on the site of journalist Hans-Henrik Landsvig) about railway remnants in the West Bank in 1998.
• The National Israeli Photo Collection contains a number of rail-related photos.

Hedjaz Railway (a.k.a. Hejaz, Hejas, Hijaz)

• Our book: Hedjaz Railway.
• Nabatea.net: good photos, mainly contemporary, of both used and disused stations, track and stock on the Hejaz railway, as well as other lines in Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine and Israel. Also maps and information.
• Jordan Hejaz Railways official site with timetables. Has English and Arabic versions.
• Syrian Railways official site in English, French or Arabic.
• The Man in Seat Sixty-One... has good information on how to take a train to or in the Middle East or anywhere else.
• Trains of Turkey has some information related to Ottoman Empire era railways such as the Hedjaz railway.
• Wikipedia entry has a summary of the line's history. See also a longer account in the article "Pilgrim's Road" by Daniel Da Cruz and an account from 1919 of a rather perilous trip on the railway. This Aljazeera article covers the somewhat uncertain future of the railway.
• Between Mystical and Military: The Architecture of the Hejaz Railway (1900-1918) (pdf, 538Kb) by Adham Fahmy is an interesting look at the architecture of the line.
• Report of a visit to the railway in 1997/8 by Rob Dickinson, with photos. There are also reports of steam trips to Jordan and Syria in 1999, 2000, 2003 and 2004.
• Interesting German site about the line by Gerhard Henrich (in German with some English, English translation).
• Photo Gallery of the line by Martin Meese (in German, English translation).
• The Saudi Railways site has information about current and future plans but little about the Hedjaz. However there are some good contemporary photos of the Saudi part by Mr. Hagitani Atsushi (1993), Galen R. Frysinger and Paul Hederer/Clyde Kebodeaux (1999).