Shafaq News- Baghdad
Behind Baghdad's historic Al-Alawi Railway Station,stretching toward Al-Karkh Hospital, hundreds of derelict passenger coaches,locomotives, and fuel tankers stand abandoned in what railway workers call the"railway graveyard."
Many of the vehicles have remained out of servicefor years, exposed to the elements without rehabilitation, preservation, orrecycling, turning part of one of Iraq's oldest transport hubs into a vastscrapyard.
Some of the rolling stock could still be salvagedthrough refurbishment or converted into museum pieces and tourist attractionsdocumenting the history of Iraq's railways, while unusable equipment could berecycled or sold as scrap under legal procedures.
