Hadera East railway station

Hadera East railway station תחנת הרכבת חדרה מזרח
Station grounds in 2017. The level crossing is located on the old alignment of Highway 65. The abandoned citrus packing warehouse visible next to the tracks was relocated 200 m to the south and extensively restored in 2020.
General information
Location	Tzahal Street, Hadera
Coordinates	32°26′46″N 34°57′00″E / 32.44611°N 34.95000°E / 32.44611; 34.95000
Owned by	Israel Railways
Line(s)	Eastern Railway
Platforms	1
Tracks	2
History
Opened	1920
Closed	1968

Hadera East railway station is a former railway station in Hadera, Israel. It originally served as the northern terminus of the Eastern Railway. In 1968, the line was closed to passengers and the railway south of the station to Kfar Saba was abandoned. A short section of the Eastern Railway connecting the station north to the Coastal railway line was left in operation—being used by freight trains serving the Granot "Ambar North" large feed mill complex near Gan Shmuel that is located adjacent to Hadera East station.

As of 2022, the station is undergoing extensive construction and restoration in anticipation of being reopened in the late 2020s as part of the re-building effort of the Eastern Railway.

History

During the

El Kantara, Egypt. Prior to the construction of this new line, the only southbound connection from Haifa was the Jezreel Valley railway via Afula. Hadera East halt was constructed by Palestine Railways as part of this new line; it opened in 1920 at a location 2.5 km north-east from the town,^[3] and was served by buses from Hadera, Pardes Hanna and Karkur.^[4] Until the 1940s, the halt didn't include any facilities for waiting passengers, not even a canopy.^[5][6]

The

USSR, then in 1942 to Iran, then brought by the Jewish Agency for Israel by sea to Suez, and from there on a train to the Yishuv

— stopped at Hadera East station on 18 February 1943, and a festive greeting was arranged for the children.

The new

Pardes Hanna, about 2.5 km north of Hadera East, which meant that Hadera East could not be served by the new passenger service between Haifa and Tel Aviv. In order for the new passenger service to include Hadera, the new Hadera West railway station

, built 5 km south of Remez junction and 5 km west of the old railway station, opened to passengers in 1957. Nevertheless, some passenger and freight service via Hadera East continued until 1968, when the passenger service between Haifa and Jerusalem ended, the station closed, the railway track south of it abandoned and was later mostly dismantled.

Future plans

The government of Israel announced plans to revive the Eastern Railway at a projected cost of NIS 10 billion (appx. US$ 2.7 billion in 2018 dollars),^[7][8] reinstating a service from Haifa via Hadera and Kfar Saba to Lod which would bypass the congested Coastal railway south of Pardes Hanna. Out of the projected amount, NIS 50 million would fund the creation of a new Hadera East station, which will be situated within the site in a location that allows for the preservation of the historic British buildings. As part of the project, extensive restoration of some of the station's historic buildings began in early 2020.

References

1. ^ Detail of Falls Map 21 / Official History of the Great War Based on Official Documents by Direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence Volume 2 Part II Military Operations Egypt & Palestine from June 1917 to the end of the war
2. ^ Ottoman Palestine, 1800-1914: Studies in Economic and Social History / p. 207
3. ^ "דין וחשבון קטעי על ההתנפלות על חדרה", דואר היום, no. 415, 1921-11-14
4. ^ "חדרה", Davar, no. 610, 1933-02-09
5. ^ "תביעת ישובי השומרון", Davar, no. 605, 1937-03-17
6. ^ "נדרשת רכבת בוקר מיוחדת לצפון", Davar, no. 304, 1937-01-15
7. ^ Tischler, Tzvika (15 September 2016). "עולים על המסילה" [Eastern Railway On Track]. Yedioth Ahronoth (in Hebrew). Retrieved 16 September 2016.
8. ^ גורודיסקי, סוניה (23 October 2018). "הסתיים התכנון של מסילת הרכבת שתעבור לצד כביש 6 | בלעדי". Globes.

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