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Initially,
the
railway
was
constructed
in
1853
in
two
stages,
the
first
from
“Alexandria
-
Kafr
El-Zayat”,
and
from
“Kafr
El-Zayat
-
Cairo”,
and
the
Rosetta
Branch
separated
the
two
links,
and
the
“Robert
Stevenson”
Company,
which
established
the
Egyptian
Railway,
established
a
berth
in
Rasheed
branch,
and
its
crane
transports
the
cars
of
the
train
coming
from
Alexandria
to
Cairo
and
vice
versa,
and
transports
them
on
a
ferry
to
the
second
mainland.
The
train
cars,
which
were
3
cars
at
the
beginning
of
operation,
are
reassembled,
and
there
was
one
trip
daily
for
passengers
and
another
for
goods,
as
there
were
no
bridges
at
that
time.
On
May
15,
1858,
during
the
return
of
Prince
Ahmed
Rifaat
from
Alexandria
and
while
the
train
was
crossing
the
Rashid
branch
in
Kafr
El-Zayat,
the
royal
carriage
was
lifted
over
the
ferryboat,
with
Prince
Ahmed
Rifaat
Pasha,
Prince
Abdel
Halim,
and
some
courtiers
inside
it,
due
to
the
ferryboat’s
imbalance,
and
the
carriage
fell
into
the
ground.
The
Nile
River,
and
Prince
Abdel
Halim
survived
by
swimming
to
the
banks
of
the
Nile,
while
Prince
Ahmed
Rifaat
Pasha
died
by
drowning
inside
the
sunken
train
car,
where
it
was
said
at
the
time
that
“due
to
the
size
of
his
body,
he
was
unable
to
get
out
of
it.”
