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The Jezreel Valley railway, or the Valley Train (Hebrew: רַכֶּבֶת הָעֵמֶק, Rakevet HaEmek ; Arabic: خط سكة حديد حيفا – درعا, romanized: khaṭṭ sikkat ḥadīd Ḥayfa–Dar‘a [1]) was a railroad that existed in Ottoman and British Palestine, reconstituted as a modern railway in Israel in the 21st century.
The Jezreel Valley Railway (Hebrew: מסילת העמק) is a railway of Israel Railways (IR), which connects Haifa with Beit She'an in the Jezreel Valley. The railway line was opened to the public on October 16, 2016.
The second line in what is now Israel was the Jezreel Valley railway from Haifa to Beit She’an, which had been built in 1904 [4] as part of the Haifa-Daraa branch, a 1905-built feeder line of the Hejaz Railway which ran from Medina to Damascus. [5]
Siemens Viaggio Light DVT at Haifa Center HaShmona . Haifa Center is a station on both the main north–south coastal line of Israel Railways (which serves parts of the Nahariya–Haifa–Tel Aviv–Ben-Gurion Airport–Modi'in, the Nahariya–Haifa–Tel Aviv–Lod–Beersheba, and in the future the Haifa–Tel Aviv–Jerusalem Intercity Lines) and the suburban line serving Haifa's northern ...
Haifa–Hof HaCarmel railway station (Hebrew: תחנת הרכבת חיפה – חוף הכרמל, Taḥanat HaRakevet Haifa Ḥof HaCarmel, lit.Carmel Coast or Carmel Beach, sometimes spelled Haifa–Hof HaKarmel; Arabic: محطة قطار حيفا – حوف هكرمل [2] or محطة قطار حيفا – شاطئ الكرمل [3]) is an Israel Railways station serving the city of Haifa, Israel.
The Coastal railway line (Hebrew: מסילת החוף, romanized: mesilat ha-ḥof) is a mainline railway in Israel, which begins just south of the Lebanon-Israel border on the Mediterranean coast, near the town of Nahariya in Northern Israel and stretches almost the entire Mediterranean coast of the country, to just north of the border with the Gaza Strip in the south.
To this day, the distances on the Israel Railways main line are measured from Haifa East station. As the first railway station in Haifa, it was originally named just "Haifa Station", and changed its name in 1937 when the new Haifa Center railway station opened.
After the establishment of the State of Israel, it was deemed necessary to connect Tel Aviv to the rail network. For this purpose, the Yarkon Railway was extended westwards into Bnei Brak, and a new station, named Tel Aviv North, opened on 20 September 1949, with through service to Haifa East railway station. The trains on this service still ...