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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.
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]
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 ...
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, originally named Tel Aviv Custom House Station, was built in 1920 by the British Mandate Authorities.Its first location , at a distance of approximately 2.5 km from the Jaffa railway station, was facing the short Mikveh Israel Street, where the railway had followed a narrow curve between Yehuda Halevi Street and Railway (HaRakevet
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 ...