Railway model - 1862 Egyptian Locomotive tank engine - postcard c.1970s

Postcard
• Picture / Image:  Egytian Locomotive - model 1/8th scale of tank engine built in 1862 at Alexadria by Jeffrey Bey for service between Alexandia and Suez on loan from Science Museum
• Publisher:  Bethnal Green Museum [of Childhood]
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1833 Pasha Muhammad Ali considered building a railway between Suez and Cairo to improve transit between Europe and India. Muhammad Ali had proceeded to buy the rail when the project was abandoned due to pressure by the French who had an interest in building a canal instead.^{[citation needed]}

In 1848 Muhammad Ali died, and in 1851 his successor Abbas I contracted Robert Stephenson to build Egypt's first standard gauge railway. The first section, between Alexandria on the Mediterranean coast and Kafr el-Zayyat on the Rosetta branch of the Nile was opened in 1854.^[2] This was the first railway in the Ottoman Empire as well as Africa and the Middle East.^[3] In the same year Abbas died and was succeeded by Sa'id Pasha, in whose reign the section between Kafr el-Zayyat and Cairo was completed in 1856 followed by an extension from Cairo to Suez in 1858.^[2] This completed the first modern transport link between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean, as Ferdinand de Lesseps did not complete the Suez Canal until 1869.

At Kafr el-Zayyat the line between Cairo and Alexandria originally crossed the Nile with an 80 feet (24 m) car float.^[4] However, on 15 May 1858 a special train conveying Sa'id's heir presumptive Ahmad Rifaat Pasha fell off the float into the river and the prince was drowned.^[4] Stephenson therefore replaced the car float with a swing bridge nearly 500 metres (1,600 ft) long.^[4] By the end of Sa'id's reign branches had been completed from Banha to Zagazig on the Damietta branch of the Nile in 1860, to Mit Bera in 1861 and from Tanta to Talkha further down the Damietta Nile in 1863.^[2]

Sa'id's successor Isma'il Pasha strove to modernise Egypt and added momentum to railway development. In 1865 a new branch reached Desouk on the Rosetta Nile and a second route between Cairo and Talkha was opened, giving a more direct link between Cairo and Zagazig.^[2] The following year a branch southwards from Tanta reached Shibin El Kom.^[2] The network started to push southwards along the west side of the Nile with the opening of the line between Imbaba near Cairo and Minya in 1867.^[5] A short branch to Faiyum was added in 1868.^[5] A line between Zagazig and Suez via Nifisha was completed in the same year.^[2] The following year the line to Talkha was extended to Damietta on the Mediterranean coast and a branch opened to Salhiya and Sama'ana.^[2]

Imbaba had no rail bridge across the Nile to Cairo until 1891.^[4] However, a long line between there and a junction west of Kafr el-Zayyat opened in 1872, linking Imbaba with the national network.^[2] From Minya the line southwards made slower progress, reaching Mallawi in 1870 and Assiut in 1874.^[5] On the west bank till Najee Hammady from which goes on east bank of the Nile till Aswan. A shorter line southwards linked Cairo with Tura in 1872 and was extended to Helwan in 1875.^[2] In the Nile Delta the same year a short branch reached Kafr el-Sheikh and in 1876 a line along the Mediterranean coast linking the termini at Alexandra and Rosetta was completed.^[2]

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