South Railway starts at Hudaitha in Al-Jouf province and passes through Hail, Qassim and Riyadh provinces. “We have completed 1,050 km of railway track out of a total of 1,486 km,” Al-Magati said. He added that the service would transport 15,000 tons of minerals in a single trip. He added that each locomotive would have 100 wagons. The 2,400 km North-South Railway is given priority due to its importance to industrial development. It would ferry minerals from mines in the north and central zones at Al-Jalami and As-Zabirah to processing plants at Ras Az-Zawr in the east. --MORE