Damascus Train Station Revival Hope

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A train station was once the pride of Syria's capital. Some see it as a symbol of revival after war

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The Qadam station in Damascus was once the pride of the Syrian capital.

It was an essential link between Europe and the Arabian Peninsula during the Ottoman Empire .

But more than a decade of war left it a wasteland of bullet-scarred walls and twisted steel.

The station's remaining staff say they still have an attachment to the railway and hope that it can be revived.

Syrian railway workers and families living at the train station say an urban legend spread that dogs ate the bodies of captives that Assad ’s notorious web of intelligence agencies killed and dumped late at night .

Now Malla and others hope the railway can be cleared of its rubble and its dark past and become a central part of Syria 's economic revival.

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