Investigation of excessive flange wear on Aqaba Railway Corporation (Jordan) wagons built by Bre-Metro (TR-FT-001)

On October 6 1975 the 116 km line between Bat'n-El-Ghul and Aqaba port in Jordan was officially opened, after approximately 3 years work, for the movement of large scale phosphate traffic from the mines at El Hasa to Aqaba for export. (See Fig.1). While construction and signalling of the entirely...