Palestine Railways.

Transcribed from the clipping

“The latest railway improvement in Palestine is a line from Haifa across the plains of Esdraelon east of the Jordan to Dara, there to join the Hedjaz railway now being constructed for the convenience of pilgrims between Damascus and Mecca.”

Context added by this archive

Forty-two words. Palestine as a junction and a gradient. Nobody lives there, nobody builds it, nobody is inconvenienced by it.

Cite this item

"Palestine Railways.," The Standard Times, 6 February 1906. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1906-002. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1906-002

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