{"id":657591,"date":"2026-01-09T12:06:49","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T06:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=657591"},"modified":"2026-01-09T12:06:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T06:36:49","slug":"etihad-rail-uae-launches-first-passenger-train-network-connecting-abu-dhabi-dubai-and-fujairah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/etihad-rail-uae-launches-first-passenger-train-network-connecting-abu-dhabi-dubai-and-fujairah\/","title":{"rendered":"Etihad Rail: UAE launches first passenger train network connecting Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Fujairah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UAE is on the brink of a transport revolution with Etihad Rail\u2019s national passenger service, set to begin operations in 2026. After years of infrastructure build-out and testing, the first integrated passenger rail network will link cities from Al Sila in the west to Fujairah in the east, offering a safe, efficient alternative to road travel and boosting connectivity across all seven emirates.<\/p>\n<p>What does the Etihad rail network include?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UAE is on the brink of a transport revolution with Etihad Rail\u2019s national passenger service, set to begin operations in 2026. After years of infrastructure build-out and testing, the first integrated passenger rail network will link cities from Al Sila in the west to Fujairah in the east, offering a safe, efficient alternative to road travel and boosting connectivity across all seven emirates. What does the Etihad rail network include?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,260,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}