Hejaz Railway
cover 1906 postcard to Haifa bearing overprinted 5pa. cancelled by Arabic "Hejaz timuryolu hamidiyé/Kadem Cherif" (5.11) and showing "Hejaz timuryolu hamidiyé/Haifa" arrival c.d.s. (Jan., 1907; C & W 103) adjacent, both in violet. Very fine and rare card from the Hejaz Railway. Photo.
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cover 1906 postcard to Haifa bearing overprinted 5pa. cancelled by Arabic "Hejaz timuryolu hamidiyé/Kadem Cherif" (5.11) and showing "Hejaz timuryolu hamidiyé/Haifa" arrival c.d.s. (Jan., 1907; C & W 103) adjacent, both in violet. Very fine and rare card from the Hejaz Railway. Photo.
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Note: There had been some controversy following its discovery, over whether the departure c.d.s. read Kadem Sherif (a small station a few kilometres south of Damascus at the start of the line from Hamadie to Hejaz) or Kuds Sherif. That it is the former has been proved by Samuel Zerbib in his two articles in the S.I.P. in 1989 (pp. 5760 and 6010). In 1905, a branch line was opened from Dera to Haifa, thereby connecting the Hejaz Railway to the coast.