Coastal railway line, Israel
The Coastal railway line is a mainline railway in Israel, which begins just south of 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.
A Double-decker train on the Coastal line south of Haifa in 2008
The former link to Lebanon through railway tunnels at Rosh HaNikra grottoes
A train on the Ayalon Railway line in 2006
Passenger train heading north near Dor
Palestine Railways was a government-owned railway company that ran all public railways in the League of Nations mandate territory of Palestine from 1920 until 1948. Its main line linked El Kantara in Egypt with Haifa. Branches served Jaffa, Jerusalem, Acre and the Jezreel Valley.
Samakh station, shortly after being captured by Australian light horsemen on 25 September 1918
Haifa East station in 1931 with passenger train and 1918 Baldwin H class 4-6-0
North British Locomotive Co. P class 4-6-0, built for Palestine Railways 1935, in Israel Railways service on the turntable at Haifa in 1950
Stanier 8F 2-8-0 70513, built by NBL in Glasgow in 1941, in Israel Railways service taking water at Zichron Ya'akov on 4 January 1949