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| Image number: | 1983 |
| Feature : | railway |
| Grouping : | mining & energy |
| Discipline : | economy, welfare and health |
| Year : | 1995 |
| Locality : | Sodmein catchment |
| Country : | Egypt |
| Region - tribe : | Quseir |
| Physiographic region : | Desert-Red Sea Mountains |
| Notice : | Railways are constructed in the desert to transport extracted ores , like phosphates to the factory of Quseir. Transport. The railway follows the wadi bed. Note deep incisions in the limestone mountain in the beckground. |
| Reference : | Moeyersons, Jan, 1995 Image 1983. In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/nl/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic" |