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==Aden Military Railway, 1915-20==
[[File:Aden 3 Port Tramway and Aden Railway.png|thumb|'''‘Aden Railway’(foreground) and ‘Aden Port Tramway’(to the rear) ''']]
In order to support operations against the Ottoman Empire, the Royal Engineers built a military railway in 1915-1916 from Aden to Sheikh Othman, the border with Turkish Yemen. The first section of the line from Ma’alla (Inner harbour, Aden) to Sheikh Othman, a distance of 7 miles (11km) opened Jan 1, 1916<ref name=Aden/>.
The railway was built to metre gauge ([[Rail_gauge_#Metre_Gauge|MG]]) standards and the materials used in construction were almost certainly sourced from India, most likely by cannibalising branches of the ['[Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway|'Bombay, Baroda and Central IndiaRailway']] (BB&CIR) and [[Eastern Bengal Railway|'Eastern Bengal RailwaysRailway'(EBR)]].
In 1919. the line was extended from Sheikh Othman; opened to Lahej , Yeman Feb 11, 1919; and to Al Kudad (El Khudad ) Jan 7, 1920 giving a line length of 28.75 miles(46km). The line wassdescribed was described as the ''' ‘Aden-Lahej Railway’ '''‘<ref>British Library IOR/L/PS/10/89 ‘Aden; railway construction in Aden hinterland; Aden-Lahej Railway'</ref>
==Aden State Railway==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110103164201/http://www.ajg41.clara.co.uk/yemen.html Middle East Railway "Railways in Yemen" by Andrew Grantham from notes compiled by Eljas Pölhö]
==See also associated pagesFurther Related Information==*See '''[[Aden Tramway]]'''*See '''[[Crater-Steamer Point Tramway (Aden)]]''', proposal 1863 for an electric tramway [[Crater-Steamer Point Tramway (Aden)| - ''see Separate page '']]
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