Clearing the track from blown in sand in the curve after the crossing of the dried out Oued El Oglat creek some kilometers before Ain Beni Mathar in the east moroccan desert. So the ORIENTAL DESER... (more)

Hall of the Oujda train station in the east of Morocco in the morning at 6.42 AM. Only few passengers are present, all from Europe, to ride with the ORIENTAL DESERT EXPRESS due to leave after 7 AM... (more)

The ORIENTAL DESERT EXPRESS of the ONCF from Oujda to Bouarfa (305 kilometer) through the east moroccan desert circulates two to three times a year only, when enough tourist booked the trip. The t... (more)

The ORIENTAL DESERT EXPRESS of the ONCF from Oujda to Bouarfa (305 kilometer) through the east moroccan desert circulate two to three times a year only, when enough tourist booked the trip. The tr... (more)

The ORIENTAL DESERT EXPRESS from Oujda to Bouarfa through the east moroccan desert reached Tendrara in the late afternoon. Local people and a music group awaited the train, which circulate two to ... (more)

The ORIENTAL DESERT EXPRESS from Oujda to Bouarfa through the east moroccan desert stopped about 25 kilometer northeast of Ain Beni Mathar, at kilometer post 111, because the track was covered wit... (more)

Ruins of the abandoned El Harracha railroad station in the desert of eastern Morroco, about 30 kilometers as the crow flies northeast of Ain Beni Mathar, on the 305-kilometer (189 miles) rail line... (more)

Oujda station in the east of Morocco at 6.47 AM. The "SW 1001" DI # 503, built by GM-EMD in 1984, shoved the cars for the train 124 to Marrakech (departure 7.50 AM) onto track 6 (left). On track 7... (more)

Sand covers the right rail in the curve at kilometer point 111 in the east moroccan desert. So the ORIENTAL DESERT EXPRESS stopped the journey from Oujda to Bouarfa and workers, which travelled al... (more)

The ORIENTAL DESERT EXPRESS of the ONCF with diesellocomotives DH # 421 and # 430 is leaving the about 350 meter long Tiouli tunnel (built 1930) on the line from Oujda to Bouarfa. This is the only... (more)

Diesellocomotives DH # 421 and # 430 are pulling the ORIENTAL DESERT EXPRESS from Oujda to Bouarfa (305 kilomters) through the desert of the east Morocco, about 20 kilometers south of Ain Beni Mat... (more)

View into the kitchen car of the ORIENTAL DESERT EXPRESS of the ONCF from Oujda to Bouarfa (305 km). In one half of the car is a dieselmotor/generator for the air conditioning of the cars, the oth... (more)

View into the cab of diesellocomotive DH # 421 of the ONCF, a NGT26CW-3WNFORCE built in 2014 by TZV Gredelj in Zagreb/Croatia. EMD 16-645 E prime mover, 122 metric ton, 2460 kW, 140 km/h.

DI # 503 of the ONCF is shunting passenger cars in Oujda. The locomotive of type SW1001 was built in 1982 by GM-EMD in a series of 18 (DI # 501 to # 518) with 750 kW and 85 km/h maximum velocity.

The ORIENTAL DESERT EXPRESS, a tourist train from Oujda to Bouarfa (305 kilometers), running through the east Morocco desert south of Ain Beni Mathar. The train is running irregularly since about ... (more)