Kermanshah railway station (
Persian
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: ایستگاه راه آهن کرمانشاه) is a railway station located in the city of
Kermanshah
Kermanshah ( fa, کرمانشاه, Kermânšâh ), also known as Kermashan (; romanized: Kirmaşan), is the capital of Kermanshah Province, located from Tehran in the western part of Iran. According to the 2016 census, its population is 946,68 ...
in Iran.
Opening
The station was opened by
Hassan Rouhani
Hassan Rouhani ( fa, حسن روحانی, Standard Persian pronunciation: ; born Hassan Fereydoun ( fa, حسن فریدون, links=no); 12 November 1948) is an Iranian politician who served as the seventh president of Iran from 2013 to 2021. ...
on 20 March 2018. Dr. Hassan Rouhani appeared in Kermanshah Railway Station ordering the first passenger train to leave Kermanshah for the holy city of
Mashhad
Mashhad ( fa, مشهد, Mašhad ), also spelled Mashad, is the List of Iranian cities by population, second-most-populous city in Iran, located in the relatively remote north-east of the country about from Tehran. It serves as the capital of R ...
. Dr Rouhani also ordered the Kermanshah-Mashhad train to leave and congratulated the people of Kermanshah, saying: "I announce the start of the first trip of Kermanshah train from this beautiful city to Mashhad".
See also
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Islamic Republic of Iran Railways
, majoroperators =RAI, Tooka rail, Samand rail
, ridership =21 million
, passkm =13 billion
, freight =31 million tonnes
, tonkm =22 billion tonnes
, infrastructure =
, length =
, doublelength = 142 ...
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Khosravi railway station
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Baghdad Central Station
Baghdad Central Station is the main train station in Baghdad. It links the rail network to the south and the north of Iraq. The station was built by the British to designs by J. M. Wilson, a Scot who had been an assistant to Lutyens in New Delhi a ...
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Rahahane Gharb
Rahahane Gharb (Persian: راه آهن غرب) or Iran's west railway is a partially finished railway corridor in western Iran.
Sections and route
The west railway consists of Malayer– Khosravi corridor which will eventually run to the border wi ...
References
External links
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Railway stations in Iran
Kermanshah
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