Egypt's Abandoned Desert Railway | Qena to Safaga

[@Morgan_64]

This reminds me of all the Tim Traveler videos where the running joke is "And of course, we're not here to see any of that"

[@AhmedAdly11]

Thanks for this video because I have been driving past it for 30 years and it is nice to finally know its story.

[@LittleWicketRailway]

It would be incredible if they could re-open the line. Tourists would love it. Beautiful scenery.

[@retf8977]

Underappreciated and unique topic that I had only a bit of surface level knowledge about, Greetings from Egypt!

[@LittleWicketRailway]

Thanks for watching 👍😊

[@yyamaana2016]

I am from Safaga, i never thought anyone would talk about this thank you for bringing this topic

[@LittleWicketRailway]

Thanks for watching. Safaga has such a beautiful coast line and the Red Sea is incredible.

[@HandFromCoffin]

This is literally the other guy on earth who would have noticed, looked this up, filmed it, and put it on youtube.

[@zivadivathedog9392]

Very interesting even when we are on holiday we can’t stop thinking about railways. Hope you enjoyed your holiday.

[@LittleWicketRailway]

Thanks. We had a really nice time 🙂

[@johnjmc]

nice bit of research and very interesting bud

[@LittleWicketRailway]

Thanks mate 👍

[@jonhill9548]

I remember traveling from Safaga to Qena on a local bus in about 1982 and seeing the railway by the side of the road looking pristine and thinking that it would be great to travel on it. Disappointed to be planning a trip back to that part of the world and finding from your video that it had gone.

[@Ahreman_egy]

im egyptian and i didt even know this exists lol

[@LittleWicketRailway]

Cool, where in Egypt are you from?

[@Ahreman_egy]

@@LittleWicketRailway Alexandria, way up north :)

[@dinmorejunctionmodelrailway]

I've been there for a day trip out on the red sea from Luxor.

[@LittleWicketRailway]

It's a long day, but worth it. Hope you enjoyed it.

[@dinmorejunctionmodelrailway]

@@LittleWicketRailway Luxor is my second home.

[@LittleWicketRailway]

@@dinmorejunctionmodelrailway it's an amazing place. I struggled to get my head round the temples being 3000+ years old.

[@eugeniomarins2936]

Dear Sir, Very interesting video! Great research btw, congrats! I would love to visit Egypt, not to see railways, though... ;O) Cheers from Brazil!

[@LittleWicketRailway]

Thanks 👍 It's a fascinating country to visit, loads to see and great weather ☀️

[@pacificcoastminiatures]

Interesting story, you did an amazing job of putting it together with all the research you did. Might even inspire someone to model this railway.

[@LittleWicketRailway]

Thanks 👍 Yeah, would make a great model if you could split the layout into sections for sea, desert and Nile.

[@OOElectronics]

Really great video. Production was superb.

[@LittleWicketRailway]

Thanks 👍 😊

[@PaulinesPastimes]

There is always something sad about abandoned railways, when you see how much work went into building them and the sometimes short sighted reasons they were abandoned. Hope you had a good time in Egypt. 😊

[@TATICMOOR]

Ahh, what a guy, and well spotted Rob. You did superbly in researching and producing this little video gem. A little left of centre from the LWR channel, but I do love the ancient Egyptian culture and how old it is. Their buildings are amazing and how they achieved it with the basic tools they had then. Maybe they had a Pharaoh Light Railway thats waiting to be discovered under all that sand. Rob The Discover, what a title in Cartouche Hieroglyphs, lol.

[@Hobbie-s7w]

I always enjoy these types of videos, thanks for putting it up, David, NSW, Aust..

[@BidoMaggot]

cool video

[@amrbahram2171]

Well you got yourself an Egyptian railway enthusiast on the hook

[@LittleWicketRailway]

What's your main area of interest?

[@tobyakirkby]

A very interesting video Rob, ☺️

[@a.h.s.3006]

It’s Qena Qe-Na. Not Qwena Sorry, I had to say it. Anyway. Holy crap that was interesting. If you travel in some places in Egypt like on some old bridges, you will missing railings….. those were stolen as scrap metal. At some point, manhole covers were also stolen for scrap metal too, some still getting stolen. Metal theft is way too common than it should be.

[@LittleWicketRailway]

Haha, sorry for my poor pronunciation 😬

[@Ahreman_egy]

on a side not, we pronounce Qena = Kenna

[@LittleWicketRailway]

Thanks, sorry for the mispronunciation

[@Ahreman_egy]

@@LittleWicketRailway its all good just wanted to help if someone wanna look it up or something

[@conongarage9084]

The new high speed EET project is in progress now with new alignment route and stations. I work on it… By the way Q is pronounced as K and there is no U in Qena so it’s “Kena”

[@LittleWicketRailway]

That's awesome. Which part are you working on?

[@conongarage9084]

The whole railway. We are the Employers Representative

[@LittleWicketRailway]

@@conongarage9084 cool, I hope the project goes well and that one day I can ride the new rails.

[@zainmudassir2964]

Hope you cover abandoned narrow gauge railways in Pakistan as well

[@LittleWicketRailway]

Are there some interesting abandoned railways there?

[@williamvanalen9414]

They should have stuck with the monorail idea instead of building it in Lartigue lol

[@ahmedislam8490]

Such a comedic story people in Egypt are not interested in a lot of things especially railways😂

[@LittleWicketRailway]

It's understandable I think, an industrial railway line probably isn't too interesting for 99.9% of people. It would make such a great railway trip though if they ever opened it back up.

[@AhmedAdly11]

Well anything that people have forgotten about was "built by the British long ago" 😂

[@Redmenace96]

Classic Egypt- forget the investment in rail (cheaper, faster,less disruption to communities) = trucks can do it!

[@LittleWicketRailway]

It was similar in the UK. Cars came along, railways closed. Now we have too many cars and they're trying to re-open the railway lines that have been closed for 80 years.

[@nickedmonds4635]

Hi there I am trying to get some bits together for a display at the Ronald McDonald house hospital in Oxfordshire for the kids this Christmas do you have any old trains and track to donate for us please or do you know anyone we can ask?

[@rileycoyote4924]

I'd say try asking someone at a heritage railway nearby. I'm sure that someone should know or may actually want to donate.

[@justin8894]

Is it safe?

[@LittleWicketRailway]

Egypt? I've never felt unsafe there. Like a lot of places, it's just a case of being sensible and not putting yourself in bad situations. Always best to check government guidance on an area before travel.

[@Chris.Davies]

25fps???