Rosh HaAyin South railway station

Rosh HaAyin South railway station

תחנת הרכבת ראש העין דרום
Rosh HaAyin South railway station; ; תחנת הרכבת ראש העין דרום
	The disused platforms in 2017
General information
Coordinates	32°06′15″N 34°56′05″E / 32.10417°N 34.93472°E
Owned by	Israel Railways
Line(s)	Eastern Railway
Platforms	2
Tracks	3
History
Opened	1915
Closed	13 April 2003

Rosh HaAyin South railway station is a railway station near Rosh HaAyin, Israel. Despite the name, it is located north-west of the city, near the historic site of Antipatris (Tel Afek).

The station no longer serves passengers, but it remains operational as a freight terminal, and there are plans to reinstate the passenger service.

History

narrow gauge (1050 mm) like the rest of the Ottoman railways in the region, and was situated relatively inland to avoid the reach of naval guns from Royal Navy warships patrolling the Mediterranean

coast.

After the

El Kantara, Egypt. Thus, Ras al-Ayn railway station became part of the Palestine Railways main line. In 1921, a branch line was built from Ras al-Ayn station westwards to Petah Tikva

.

During the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine, Jewish passengers on southbound main line trains alighted at Ras al-Ayn and changed onto buses, in order to avoid passing through Lod.

In 1946, Irgun militants bombed the station building, which at this time was mainly used by British troops stationed in the area.^[1] The city of Rosh HaAyin, founded in 1949, later became the main settlement served by the station, and so the station was renamed.

After the establishment of

Tel Aviv North railway station in 1949, and later connected to the Coastal Railway

in 1953.

When the passenger service on the

Ayalon Railway

.

Future plans

The government of Israel announced plans to revive the Eastern Railway at a projected cost of NIS 8 billion (appx. US$ 2.2 billion),^[2] reinstating a service from Haifa via Hadera and Rosh HaAyin to Lod which would bypass the congested Coastal railway. The rebuilt Rosh HaAyin South railway station would be connected to the city with a footbridge over Highway 6. However, the construction is not expected to start before 2020.

References

^ מקומות
^ Tischler, Tzvika (15 September 2016). "עולים על המסילה" [Eastern Railway On Track]. Yedioth Ahronoth (in Hebrew). Retrieved 16 September 2016.

[1] מקומות

[yed0916-2] Tischler, Tzvika (15 September 2016). "עולים על המסילה" [Eastern Railway On Track]. Yedioth Ahronoth (in Hebrew). Retrieved 16 September 2016.

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