Trains in Israel?

[Razorclaw]

 

Can anyone tell me if there is a train running in Israel? If so,are they frieght or passenger? And what kind?

 

    Thanks, stephen

[Hamltnblue]

There's always Google

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Railways

[andrechapelon]

Razorclaw

 

Can anyone tell me if there is a train running in Israel? If so,are they frieght or passenger? And what kind?

 

    Thanks, stephen

Why not ask Israel Railways directly?

http://www.rail.co.il/EN/Pages/HomePage.aspx

Andre

[andrechapelon]

Hamltnblue

There's always Google

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Railways

Good ol' Google. Apparently you can even find out how much wood a woodchuck could chuck.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_much_wood_would_a_woodchuck_chuck_if_a_woodchuck_could_chuck_wood

 Naturally, this question assumes that a woodchuck would have some motivation to chuck wood. In the long run, it doesn't matter how much wood a woodchuck could chuck if said woodchuck could not somehow be induced to chuck wood.

Andre

Andre.

[rjake4454]

Razorclaw

 

Can anyone tell me if there is a train running in Israel? If so,are they frieght or passenger? And what kind?

 

    Thanks, stephen

Yes, there is most definately a train in Israel, I have seen footage of it a few years ago. If I still had the video, I would post it. It was passenger train, similar to Amtrak. This was back in 2002 or so.

Also, last year a train related story in Israel made headlines when a mentally ill woman attempted suicide by laying herself down across the tracks of a high speed line in the desert. Miraculously, the entire train went right over her and she got up and walked away in a trance to be picked up shortly after by the authorities and then taken to the hospital. The video was shown I have seen it. Touchy subject matter and not something to be taken lightly so I won't post it here.

[ndbprr]

IT isn't much of a system. I believe it runs from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and is less then 25 miles in length. When I was there I saw one train in a week. I think there are two or three commuter trains a day. Not much else.

[Anonymous]

 The beginnings of trains in Israel date back to the time, when Palestine was still a part of the Ottoman Empire, but never gained much importance in a sparsely populated region in those days. Only recently, the State of Israel has begun to invest into rail transport, creating a modern system in very little time. Given the country´s small size, it is more of a commuter railroad than a long distance network, but certainly more than just a single line between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.

Here is a map:

 

[joe323]

I believe there is a railway museum in Haifa.

I remember taking the train a few times when I was over there but that was 30 years ago