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Despite this, the land that the stations were built on was purchased at very high prices by the railway company. [4] The station in Jaffa was built in immediate vicinity of the German Templer colony, and even named Sarona Station on a British map from the late 1910s, to distinguish from a Jaffa Station at the seafront, the terminus of a short ...
The Jaffa Railway Station was abandoned, and the final destination on the coast was changed to Tel Aviv's Beit Hadar Station (the original Tel Aviv South station), which in turn was changed to the newer Tel Aviv South station, marking the complete dismantlement of the line inside Tel Aviv's urban area. The reasons cited were the fact that the ...
Therefore, the station's depth will be 78m below ground level from the Benin compound entrance, and 71m below ground level from the Pillars building. the line's final route was also confirmed - it will pass via an underground station underneath the historical Jerusalem–Khan railway station, and emerge from the ground to connect to the surface ...
Palestine Railways (Arabic: سكة حديد فلسطين; Palestine Railways; Contemporary Hebrew: מסילות ברזל פלשתינה (א"י) “Palestine Railways” [2] or רכבות ארץ-ישראל; [3] Present-day Hebrew: הרכבת המנדטורית “Mandate Railways”) was a government-owned railway company that ran all public railways in the League of Nations mandate territory ...
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Jaffa Railway Station was the first railway station in the Middle East. It served as the terminus for the Jaffa–Jerusalem railway. The station opened in 1891 and closed in 1948. In 2005–09, the station was restored and converted into an entertainment and leisure venue marketed as "HaTachana", Hebrew for "the station". [145]
Jerusalem–Malha is the current terminus of the Jaffa–Jerusalem railway. The other Jerusalem station on this line is the Biblical Zoo station which is served by limited stops. Jerusalem Malha was opened on April 9, 2005, when the historic Jaffa–Jerusalem railway was restored after being out of service for six years.
The station with its relocated tracks was opened to the public on January 10, 1988, and the official opening took place on May 3 of the same year. [2] In 1993, the station ceased being a terminal station when the Ayalon section of the coastal railway was extended to link with the Jaffa–Jerusalem railway in southern Tel Aviv. At that point ...