Palestine Railways

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Palestine Railway

Samakh station, shortly after being captured by Australian light horsemen on 25 September 1918
Overview
Headquarters	Khoury House, Haifa[1]
Locale	British Mandate of Palestine; northern coast of Sinai
Dates of operation	1920–1948
Predecessor	Sinai Military Railway, Jaffa–Jerusalem railway, Jezreel Valley and Acre branches of Hejaz Railway
Successor	Israel: Israel Railways Egypt: Egyptian National Railways
Technical
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge, and 1,050 mm (3 ft 5+11⁄32 in)
Previous gauge	1,050 mm (3 ft 5+11⁄32 in)
Other
Palestine Railways & HBT railway (1945) Legend North to Aleppo and Baghdad Railway Homs Tartus Al Akkari Border, Lebanon/Syria Tripoli Limit of railway south until 1941 Batroun Chekka Baalbek Chekka tunnel Jubail Jounie Hejaz Railway to Damascus Riyaq Limit of railway south by 1941 Antilyas Beirut Sidon Ez Zahrani Tyre Naqoura Border, Palestine/Lebanon Az-Zeeb Acre Kiryat Motzkin Haifa East Limit of railway north until 1941 Haifa Centre Kafr es Samir Athlit Afula on Jezreel Valley railway to Daraa Benjamina Hadera Tulkarem Qalqilyah Ras al-Ayn Kafr Jinnis Jaffa Tel Aviv Lydda Ramleh Na'an Wadi Surar Artuf Deir es Sheikh Battir Jerusalem Bir Salim Rehoboth Yibna Ashdod al-Majdal Deir el Seneid Gaza Deir al-Balah Khan Yunis Border, Egypt/Palestine Rafah Limit of railway north by 1916 Gabr Amir El Arish Mazar Abu Tilul Bir al-Abed Khirba Romani Gilban El Shatt built 1941 Kantara East Suez Canal El Ferdan bridge built 1941 Ismaïlia Lower Nile & Alexandria Route map with other regional railways Palestine Railways & HBT railway (1945) Legend Tartus Syria Lebanon border Tripoli Chekka Antilyas Beirut Sidon Ez Zahrani Tyre Naqoura Lebanon Palestine border Az-Zeeb (Nahariya) (Karmiel) Acre (Ahihud) Kiryat Motzkin (Kiryat Haim) (Hutzot HaMifratz) (HaMifratz Central) (Yokneam/Kfar Yehoshua) Haifa East (Migdal HaEmek– Kfar Baruch) Haifa Centre (Haifa Center HaShmona) (Afula) (Haifa Bat Galim) (Beit She'an) Kafr es Samir (Haifa Hof HaCarmel) Athlit (Atlit) Benjamina (Binyamina) (Caesarea-Pardes Hanna) (Hadera West) Hadera (Hadera East) (Netanya) Tulkarem (Netanya Sapir) Qalqilyah (Beit Yehoshua) (Kfar Saba – Nordau) (Hod Hasharon Sokolov) (Ra'anana South) (Rosh HaAyin North) (Ra'anana West) Ras al-Ayn (Rosh HaAyin South) (Herzliya) (Petah Tikva Segula) (Bnei Brak) (Petah Tikva Kiryat Arye) (Tel Aviv University) Kafr Jinnis (Tel Aviv Savidor Central) Jaffa (Tel Aviv HaShalom) Tel Aviv (Tel Aviv HaHagana) (Holon Junction) (Holon-Wolfson) (Bat Yam-Yoseftal) (Ben Gurion Airport) (Bat Yam-Komemiyut) (Paatei Modi'in) (Kfar Chabad) (Lod Ganei Aviv) (Modi'in Central) Lydda (Lod) (Jerusalem–Yitzhak Navon) (Rishon LeZion Moshe Dayan) (Yavne West) Bir Salim (Be'er Ya'akov) (Rishon LeZion HaRishonim) Ramleh (Ramla) Rehoboth (Rehovot) Na'an Yibna (Yavne East) Wadi Surar Isdud (Ashdod Ad Halom) Artuf (Beit Shemesh) Deir es Sheikh al-Majdal (Ashkelon) Battir (Jerusalem–Biblical Zoo) (Sderot) (Jerusalem–Malha) Deir el Seneid Jerusalem (Jerusalem–Khan) (Netivot) (Mazkeret Batya) Gaza (Kiryat Mal'akhi – Yoav) (Ofakim) (Kiryat Gat) Deir al-Balah (Lehavim-Rahat) Khan Yunis (Be'er Sheva North/University) (Dimona) (Be'er Sheva Center) Palestine Egypt border Rafah Gabr Amir El Arish Mazar Abu Tilul Bir al-Abed Khirba Romani Gilban Kantara East Route map with current Israel Railways network

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 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.