Saudi awards railway contracts to local firms

Saudi Arabia's Railways Organisation awarded 9.4 billion riyals ($2.5 billion) in contracts to Saudi Bin Laden Group and Saudi Oger to build four railway stations in the western region, it said on Wednesday.

The Saudi Railways Organisation planned Haramain Railway   will link the spiritual heart of Islam, Mecca with Medina, its second-most sacred city, and then to the kingdom's commercial hub on the Red Sea coast, Jeddah.