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37-454: The station is situated on the north–south coastal line and is located on Brodetsky Street ( Hebrew : רחוב ברודצקי , Rekhov Brodetski ) in the central part of the town, on the administrative border between Eastern and Western Kiryat Haim. The station is one of two railway stations serving Haifa's northern suburbs – the Krayot (the other being Kiryat Motzkin railway station ), although it

74-589: A fourth track to the line, narrowing the conduit of Ayalon River to make room for the new track, and diverting the excess rainwater into specially-constructed reservoirs. The opening of the Ayalon Railway, extending the Coastal Railway to connect with the Jaffa–Jerusalem railway , heralded a new era of railway development in the country as it allowed trains from the north to reach the south of

111-511: A large-scale project is underway to revive the long-defunct Eastern line between Pardes Hanna and Kfar Sava to act as a backup railroad to the coastal railway south of Remez junction, while at other times to serve mainly freight trains with some limited passenger service. 32°33′46.74″N 34°55′57.23″E  /  32.5629833°N 34.9325639°E  / 32.5629833; 34.9325639 Acre Railway Station Acre railway station ( Hebrew : תחנת הרכבת עכו , Taḥanat HaRakevet Ako )

148-630: A long cut-and-cover tunnel south of Yavne and a large flying junction at the intersection of the new coastal railway with the Lod–Ashkelon railway and the railway branch to the Port of Ashdod . From Ashdod, the existing railway from Lod extends south along the coast to near Yad Mordechai through Ashkelon (with a connection to the Heletz railway ). From Yad Mordechai the new Ashkelon–Beersheba railway , completed in 2015, branches inland southeastwards through

185-514: A part of Rosh HaNikra national park where it hosts an audiovisual theater. It is unlikely that the tunnel will ever service a railway again; in addition to passing through what is now a nature reserve, it is insufficiently wide to service double-tracked lines. Israel Railway's internal plans foresee a new railway to Lebanon, branching off at the midpoint of the Acre-Karmiel railway in Ahihud, in

222-478: A stop in the entrance to the tunnel beneath the station, both running at about 20 minute intervals. 32°49′29.33″N 35°3′51.11″E  /  32.8248139°N 35.0641972°E  / 32.8248139; 35.0641972 Coastal railway line, Israel The Coastal railway line ( Hebrew : מסילת החוף , romanized :  mesilat ha-ḥof ) is a mainline railway in Israel , which begins just south of

259-586: A train depot in Haifa on July 16, 2006, killing 8 Israel Railways workers. It was restored 29 days later, on August 14, two days after the ceasefire went into effect. Kiryat Haim is a station on both the main north–south coastal line of Israel Railways ( Nahariya –Haifa– Tel Aviv – Ben Gurion Airport – Be'er Sheva Inter-City Service) and the suburban line serving Haifa's northern suburbs – The Kerayot (Haifa– Kiryat Motzkin Suburban Service). The station

296-470: Is a station on the main north–south coastal line of Israel Railways ( Nahariya – Haifa – Tel Aviv – Ben-Gurion International Airport – Beersheba Inter-City Service). The station is situated between Nahariya Railway Station to the north and Kiryat Motzkin Railway Station to the south. Timetable highlights: Platform numbers increase in a West-to-East direction Acre Railway Station

333-480: Is an Israel Railways passenger station serving the city of Acre (Akko) and the surrounding towns and villages. The station is situated on the North-South coastal line . The station is located on David Remez Street ( Hebrew : רחוב רמז , Reḥov Remez ) in the eastern part of the city, across the road from the city market and a short walking distance from the central bus station . The original Acre station

370-532: Is operating at full capacity. This severely restricts the ability of Israel Railways to expand service to different parts of the country and constitutes a critical bottleneck in the entire national rail network. Given that this section is located in a dense urban environment and with the railway being bound by the Ayalon River to the east and the southbound lanes of the Ayalon Highway in the west makes

407-412: Is situated between Kiryat Motzkin railway station to the north and Hutzot HaMifratz railway station to the south. Platform numbers increase in an East-to-West direction Kiryat Haim railway station is located about 1.5 km the west of the main highway ( [REDACTED] Highway 4 ) and thus is out of walking distance from a large number of bus lines. Two Egged bus lines, routes 13 and 26, have

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444-520: Is slightly smaller in terms of passenger numbers and trains serving it. The station is also one of six railway stations within Haifa's municipal borders. The present-day station stands on the spot of a halt that existed as early as the 1930s on the Beirut – Cairo railway, constructed by the British during their Mandate for Palestine , connecting Kiryat Haim's residential areas with Haifa's sea port ,

481-620: The Lod–Ashkelon railway . The first phase of this work involved extending the coastal railway from the Tel Aviv HaHagana railway station to the new Rishon LeZion Moshe Dayan railway station , serving the southern Tel Aviv area suburbs and opening for service in September 2011. The remainder of the route to Ashdod opened in 2013, with the intermediate Yavne West railway station having opened in early 2012. This last section features

518-673: The Tel Aviv metropolitan area and the Haifa metropolitan area . Freight trains operate on the line as well. The line is the busiest on the Israel Railways network, with the section along the Ayalon Highway the busiest on the line. There are plans to electrify the entire line using an overhead 25 kV 50Hz AC system, though the Haifa municipality continues to oppose the plans due to aesthetic and public access reasons since

555-479: The 1920s and operated by Palestine Railways . In 1941–42 engineers of the South African Army and New Zealand Army extended the line north to Beirut and Tripoli, Lebanon , through railway tunnels at Rosh HaNikra grottoes . Following the 1948 Arab–Israeli War the tunnel linking the line to Lebanon was blocked; it was subsequently stripped of its track, backfilled in its Lebanese side, and now forms

592-415: The 2000 decade, the section between Tel Aviv Central and Tel Aviv University stations consists of four tracks , while works to extend the four track section from University to Herzliya were completed in 2020. Because the line is Israel's most congested, there are long-term plans to extend the four-track section from Hertzliya to Haifa in stages. One set of dual tracks will be used mostly by suburban trains and

629-580: The Ayalon River from northern to southern Tel Aviv. The overall project also includes adding two additional tracks within a widened Highway 1 median extending from HaHagana to the Ganot/Shapirim interchanges (where the railway to Ben Gurion Airport branches out from the Tel Aviv–Lod railway). Despite the urgency in adding the fourth track, due to additional necessary permits and approvals,

666-665: The Lebanon-Israel border on the Mediterranean coast, near the town of Nahariya in Northern Israel and stretches almost the entire Mediterranean coast of the country, to just north of the border with the Gaza Strip in the south. The northern part of the coastal line from Acre (Akko) to Remez Junction (located south of today's Caesarea-Pardes Hanna Railway Station ) was built by the British during

703-454: The addition of a fourth track an extremely complex engineering challenge. After many years of deliberations on the matter, an NIS 5.5 billion (equivalent to appx. US$ 1.5 billion in 2018 dollars) project was approved in 2018 to add the fourth track to the Ayalon section by constructing an elevated platform over the channel of the Ayalon River to carry the new track. Since the platform will reduce

740-467: The capacity of the channel to carry water, the project also includes large-scale drainage works to divert excess rainwater into specially-constructed reservoirs, including one on the grounds of Ariel Sharon Park , and a temporary reservoir on the grounds of the Mikveh Israel agricultural school southeast of Tel Aviv to be used until an underground pipeline can be constructed to divert the outlet of

777-461: The country through, rather than around, the nation's largest metropolis. Along this new railway section, two additional stations were built: Tel Aviv HaShalom opened in March 1996, and Tel Aviv HaHagana on 22 June 2002. During the construction of the Ayalon Highway , a provision was made for a third station between these two, at Yitzhak Sadeh bridge – although this station has yet to be built. Over

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814-529: The detailed design of the project, and extensive preparatory drainage works, construction is not expected to begin until the early-to-mid 2020s, with works expected to take place through at least 2028. The State Comptroller of Israel has harshly criticized the governmental planning authorities for the repeated delays associated with the construction of the fourth track, which is a critical missing element in Israel's public transportation infrastructure. As of 2021,

851-426: The eastern side (Kiryat Haim Mizrahit (Eastern) exit) as well as an exit on the west side (Kiryat Haim Ma'aravit (Western) exit). In the early 2000s a tunnel was constructed directly beneath the station's platforms replaced the dangerous level crossing that existed just north of the station. During the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict train service to the station was suspended after a Hezbollah Katyusha rocket hit

888-604: The event of rail links being re-established. The section south from Remez junction including its then-terminus, the Tel Aviv Central Railway Station , were built by Israel Railways in the beginning of the 1950s and the new line opened in May 1953 with Tel Aviv Central opening in November 1954. This new railroad then became the main north-south rail link between northern and central Israel, supplementing

925-418: The heart of Tel Aviv, it quickly became the busiest railway line in Israel. It was the first railway line in Israel to be double-tracked from the outset, allowing up to 8 trains per hour in each direction; but even that proved insufficient, and by 2 November 2006, the entire section had been widened to triple-track, increasing the capacity to 14 trains per hour in each direction. A project has been approved to add

962-419: The main employer of the residents at that time. Until the mid-1990s a small shed was the only structure marking the station. At that time a station was constructed according to the present passenger station format of Israel Railways. The station now consists of two platforms with two parallel rail tracks running between them, a pedestrian tunnel connecting the two platforms and a small station building on

999-464: The northern Negev . Beginning in the late 1980s, works started to double track the line in stages. These were finished in 2013 when double tracking works on the railway section between Akko and Nahariya were completed. Nowadays the line consists of at least double track throughout its entire length. Both intercity and suburban services operate on the line. The intercity service from Nahariya and Haifa to Tel Aviv and suburban services in both

1036-537: The old Acre Railway Station was left off the busy Beirut to Cairo line, and it was only served by the suburban services to Haifa and Krayot . The present-day station was constructed in the early 1950s at the location of the halt on the Beirut-Cairo railway. The location of the original Ottoman two-storey station building is since 1954 occupied by the Acre School for Naval Officers. The building itself

1073-718: The older, more easterly/inland section which connected Remez junction and the nearby Hadera East Railway Station to the Lod Railway Station in central Israel that was constructed during the Ottoman period (and known today as the Eastern railway line , which has been partially abandoned since 1969). This new section of coastal railway from Remez junction linked the Tel Aviv Central Station and Haifa Central Railway Station and significantly shortened

1110-675: The other set by express trains traveling nonstop or making only one stop (in Hadera) between Tel Aviv and Haifa. The express tracks will be designed to accommodate train speeds of up to 250 km/h. Space will also be reserved within the boundaries of the plan to accommodate an additional suburban set of rails on the route. The overall cost of the project between Hertzliya and Hof HaCarmel is estimated at appx. NIS 16 billion (equivalent to US$ 4.7 billion in 2021 dollars). The section between Tel Aviv HaHagana and Tel Aviv Central currently consists of three tracks. Many rail lines in Israel use this section which

1147-665: The railway lies so close to the coastline within its borders. Work on electrifying the Ayalon section between HaHagana and Herzliya, the busiest railway section in Israel and the first part of the Coastal Railway to be electrified started at HaHagana station in the fall of 2019 and reached Herzliya station in September 2020. Electrification between HaHagana and Ashkelon was completed in December 2021 and between Hertzliya and Netanya in September 2022. Electrification works between Netanya and Binyamina were completed in February 2023. Since

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1184-411: The side platform and the island platform and a third rail track running east of the island platform. The station hall is located on the west platform and a pedestrian tunnel connects the two platforms beneath the tracks. Platform 1 is used for northbound trains, platform 2 for southbound trains and platform 3 is used for trains beginning or ending their journey at the station. Acre Railway Station

1221-408: The travel time between the two cities as well as providing rail service to the cities of Herzliya and Netanya . Little development of the line followed for the next forty years until 1988 when works started on extending the railway southwards from Tel Aviv Central along the Ayalon Highway . The new railway section, about 5 km in length, was opened in 1993 as the Ayalon Railway; passing through

1258-523: The years additional stations were built along the line, including Hadera West (1957), Haifa Hof HaCarmel (1999), Tel Aviv University (2000), Caesarea-Pardes Hanna (June 2001), Lev HaMifratz (Sep 2001) and Hutzot HaMifratz (Oct 2001). A new section that includes six new stations along the South Ayalon Highway and Highway 4 was constructed in the early 2000s and connected the Coastal Railway with Ashdod Ad Halom railway station of

1295-766: Was constructed by the Ottoman Empire in 1912–1913, as part of the extension to Jezreel Valley railway which branched off in Balad al-Sheikh (present-day Nesher ). This branch line was destroyed during the First World War , and restored afterwards by the British Mandate for Palestine . During the Second World War , the British extended the railway north of Acre to Beirut and Tripoli ; but

1332-410: Was demolished in mid-1960s. The station underwent a complete reconstruction from the summer of 2001 until the spring of 2002, which included the update to the present passenger station format of Israel Railways , as well as the erection of an island platform (housing platforms 2 and 3), a modern station hall and a tunnel connecting the two platforms. The official inauguration of the new station hall

1369-545: Was on 21 May 2002. Train service to the station was completely suspended on 13 July 2006, the day after the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict began, due to the Hezbollah rocket attacks on Acre . It was restored 32 days later, on 14 August, two days after the ceasefire went into effect. The station consists of a side platform on the west (housing platform 1) and an island platform on the east (housing platforms 2 and 3) as well as two parallel rail tracks running between

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