TOPSHOT - A picture taken on May 1, 2019 shows the abandoned train station of Aaraya northeast of the Lebanese capital Beirut. - Rail transport in Lebanon began in the 1890s as French projects under the Ottoman Empire but largely ceased in the 1970s owing to the country's civil war. The last remaining routes ended for economic reasons in the 1990s. At its peak Lebanon had about 408 kilometres of railway. (Photo by JOSEPH EID / AFP)