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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 ...
While the Jaffa Railway Station served as a military headquarters during the war, the Ottomans did not want to expose the railway itself to British naval bombardment. In early 1915, most of the heavy machinery and equipment was moved to Jerusalem, and later in the same year the Jaffa–Lydda section was completely dismantled.
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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 ...
Construction began in 2001 and was divided into multiple sections: Tel Aviv – Ben Gurion Airport (western part of Railway 27) – the line begins approximately 6 km (3.7 mi) southeast of Tel Aviv's HaHagana Railway Station, where it branches off from the Tel Aviv – Lod railway through a tunnel under the northern set of lanes of Highway 1 and the northern set of tracks of the Tel Aviv ...
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 ...
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]
Beit Shemesh Station was built under Ottoman rule with the construction of the Jaffa-Jerusalem railway, the first rail line in Palestine. [2] The station has been known under four different names: its original name, Dayr Aban, which was changed during the late Mandatory period to Artuf/Hartuv, [3] the names of a nearby Arab village and a Jewish moshava, both depopulated in the 1948 Arab ...