Al-Mashaaer al-Mugaddassah Metro Line exclusively serves Hajj performers in Makkah al-Mukarramah. Hence, it operates during the Hajj season only, namely since its main task relates to transporting pilgrims to the Holy Sites through a railway linking Mina, Muzdalifah, and Arafat. It has nine stations over its eighteen km line. It has a speed of eighty km/h. It is considered among the most important means of transportation dedicated to transporting Hajj performers during the Hajj season.
The train took its first trip in 2010. Its operation was tasked to the Saudi Arabia Railways (SAR) in 2019, under a decision of the Council of Ministers. Al-Mashaaer al-Mugaddassah Metro Line has sixteen trains operating along the line, with a capacity of three thousand passengers per train and an overall capacity of seventy-two thousand passengers per hour.
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