Proposed Hejaz rail revival and Iraq-connected corridor, mapped against the historic Hejaz and Baghdad Railway routes.
Hejaz main line
Damascus, Daraa, Zarqa, Amman, Qatrana, Ma'an, Tabuk, al-Ula, Medina.
Istanbul-Damascus approach
Haydarpasa through Anatolia, Islahiye/Fevzipasa and the Afrin approach to Aleppo, Hama and Homs.
Baghdad / Iraq corridor
Haydarpasa, Konya, Gaziantep, Sanliurfa, Mardin, Nusaybin/Qamishli, Mosul, Baiji, Baghdad.
Development Road rail extension
Grand Faw Port, Shuaiba, Basra, Nasiriyah, Samawah, Diwaniyah, Hilla, Baghdad.
The border layer is real country geometry from the local Natural Earth subset. Route lines are station-anchored historical and modern corridor spines; the rail-evidence raster shows public OSM/OpenRailwayMap track and trackbed data where mapped.