ملف رقم ٣١٤٢ لسنة ١٩٠٣ "سكة حديد الحجاز" [ظ‎‎٦‎٥] (٤٨٨/١٣٧)

232*2
Amman Viaduct
Tunnel
12-1
14-3
10-9
19
234 • 5 Kissir (3,090 ft.)
248 *8 Lebben (2,537 ft.)
259'7
Jise (2 r ,385 ft.) ..
278*7
16-5
275 -2
14-l 309-3
17-1
Debaa (2,463 ft.)
Khan Sebib (2.565 ft.)
Siding
326-4 Katrane
22
348-4
Siding
Details of Line.
Crosses a masonry viaduct of ten arches of 25 ft. span,
with a supporting arch in the centre, the whole
60 metres long and 20 metres high. Approaches
through earth cutting 40 ft. Winds through some
rock cuttings and over an embankment of 60 ft.,
across a dry ravine, keeping the main valley to the
right.
Crosses a side valley by a 20-ft. masonry bridge, winds
round the head of another ravine, through a tunnel
in soft white rock 140 metres long on a curve of
100 metres radius at a gradient of 1/45.
Crosses a ravine and then passes through a rock cutting
40 ft, deep, after which more open country is reached,,
and, after a few more rock cuttings, the plateau le\ el
is reached.
Stone station, one siding of 250 yards. Undulating
fertile country now well cultivated by the Circassian
colony of Amman.
Some cuttings in whitish rock.
Undulating country; cultivation and grazing in spring.
Steady descending gradient round a wide loop for
3 kilom. of 1/70 to 1/80.
Station building and one siding of 250 yards near some
ruins. Some cultivation. Good grazing in spring,
when the Beni Sakhr are found here. Water from
cisterns.
Station building and one siding of 250 yards. Water
tank of 25 cubic metres and windmill pump from well.
Line winds over undulating desert country, crosses two
wide valleys with masonry bridges of six arches of
20 ft. and three of 20 ft. Long ascent of 1/55 to
1/50, then sharp descent round a curve to
Station building and one siding.
Pilgrim route close to west. Stone kala and a large
rainwater cistern.
Undulating bare country ; some cuttings, but no serious
gradients.
Station building and one siding. No water. Two
viaducts of six masonry arches of 25 ft. over dry
wadis.
Through undulating hills; through rock and clay
cuttings for Ig- miles.
Cross another bridge of six spans of 25 ft., 30 ft. above
the ravine.
Then another of six arches of 25 ft. over stony dry bed
of ravine, ascends 1/60 up its left bank.
These ravines run west to the Dead Sea, Line then
crosses a plain 3 to 4 miles wide.
Larger stone station building. Two sidings of 250 yards
each.
A goods shed and platform 25 yards long and 3-| ft.
high. Little trade at present. Important as the
station for Kerak, six hours to the west, a seat of
Government of a Mutessarif and garrisoned by one
battalion.
Pilgrim route passes close to west. A large reservoir
here, stone lined with cement, 70 yards by 50 yards,
36,000 cubic metres capacity. Supply depends on
rainfall. Windmill pump on it supplies two water
tanks of 25 cubic metres each.
Six-arch stone bridge of 25 ft. each just outside
station over dry stream bed, which is dammed to fill