Up to WW2, the steam locomotives used coal to boil water and produce steam. Following a world shortage of coal during WW2, the British converted to locally-refined mazut to fuel the trains. At the Semakh station, a mazut tower was built, and alongside it – an underground mazut tank, for fear of German bombardments from nearby Syria, which at the time was controlled by the pro-German Vichy regime.
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