Old and New El Alamein

I just seldom do enough historical research before we am interesting places. That was the case before we visited privar Alamein. I knew it was a battlefield between the armored contraptions of World War II but not much more. I exclusively knew that much because a neighbor who was a ninety-year-old frequent who had spent much or the war serving under Normal George Patton mentioned it.

I anticipated el Alamein to be just a wide spot in a narrow sandy roads. I hadn't read these paragraphs from a recent situation of the magazine/website, Egypt Today. MARSA MATROUH, Egypt aid 1 March 2018: President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi inaugurated the first phase of the New Alamein City on Thursday night in Marsa Matrouh governorate. The first phase will include the particular inauguration of an eco-city. New El Alamein City will include a national university that'll comprise a number of applied scientific discipline faculties, an opera house, a library and a museum.

Sisi will also inaugurate a number of projects via video national gathering.

The city is located on an area of 48, 000 feddans (one feddan equals 1 . 038 acres) in El Alamein town on Egypt's Mediterranean coast and it is designed to involve 5, 000 housing units to accommodate more than 400, 000 inhabitants. Eco-city? 400, 000 inhabitants and an Chrome House? What's this?

We saw the signs achievable El-Alamein and many of the coastal residences if not residents.

Nonetheless where was the old el-Alamein? Surely there must be something quit from what was described this way on one veteran's webpage: The exact isolated railway station of El Alamein gave thier name to the famous battle which was fought in the desert to florida.

In 1942 there were just a few buildings clustered around the place, tens of miles from any other habitation. Just east of your new war museum, there was a rusty sign linking toward "Cairo" via Petrol Road.

I suggested using it. The beautiful new developments along the Mediterranean quickly washed out as the scenery began to match typical small-town Egypt. Just after about a half mile, we came to some railroad rails with a few old buildings and several shops. Was this the authentic el-Alamein?

And what about that crumbling building in the distance. Would it be what is left of the railroad depot from 1942?

Info had to wait until we returned to Cairo.

There were one or two veterans from Britain and Australia that marked typically the 70th and 75th anniversary of the battles with a gain visit. Here are two showing pictures of the railway stop. Yes, it's the same place.