Tel-Shamam by m_daniel

Bryce • Historical • posted on Aug 10, 2003

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The train, rails and station were modelled by me - the people came from Poser and Michael & Vicky there too :-) --------------------------- Tel Shamam ("the empty hill" in Arabic) was a train station on the railway from Beirut Lebanon) -Haifa (Palestine) -Damascus (Syria). This specific station is located in the Izrael-Valley, at the village of Kefar Yehoshua. Built by the Turks in 1901-1904 and used until 1918 when the British forces conquered Israel on the Turks. The train used to commute people from Beirut to Haifa and troops from the port of Haifa to Damascus on the way to Iraq. The train speed was 25km/hr! The train station holds the world record of being the lowest in the world ! -246meter under the sea level ! If you could squeeze Moscow, Washington DC, Berlin, Hanoi and Beijing on one 500km railway route, you could understand what importance and what a