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Ramla רמלה
General information
Location	Eli Cohen Street, Ramla
Coordinates	31°55′45.68″N 34°52′36.62″E / 31.9293556°N 34.8768389°E / 31.9293556; 34.8768389
Owned by	Israel Railways
Line(s)	Tel Aviv - Jerusalem
Platforms	2
Tracks	2
Construction
Accessible	Yes
History
Opened	April 1891
Closed	1998
Rebuilt	2003, 2012
Passengers
2019	861,166
Rank	44 out of 68

Ramla railway station is a railway station in Ramla, Israel, on the Tel Aviv–Beit Shemesh–Jerusalem line. The station is located in the east of Ramla. The station is also on a section shared with the Be'er Sheva–Tel Aviv line, which branches out in a southerly direction about 3 km east of Ramla.

History

Ramla Station was built as part of the Jaffa–Jerusalem railway, 22.5 km to the southeast of the Jaffa railway station; the first service to Jaffa began in April 1891. The original Jaffa railway station closed in 1948, when the line's western terminus was changed to Tel Aviv's Beit Hadar station (also known as the Customs House station), thus making Ramla the oldest active railway station in Israel.

During the unrest of the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine the original station building was bombed by the Irgun on 27 May 1947.

In the 1950s a small concrete halt was built. On August 14, 1998, the station was closed since the section of line between Jerusalem and the Beit Shemesh railway station ceased operating due to deteriorating track conditions; the station was not served by trains to Beersheba at the time.

In 2001 it was decided to relocate the station to the west, closer to Ramla's city center and adjacent to the Ramla central bus station and civic center. The new Ramla station was opened on April 12, 2003, and service to Jerusalem resumed on April 9, 2005, the line having been completely renovated after being out of service for six years.

As part of the double-tracking and upgrading project of the Lod–Beersheba main line, the size of the station was doubled in 2012. Also as part of the project, the railway's route in the area was improved and actually no longer passes next to the original 1891–1998 station location (which was located at 31°55′23″N 34°52′51″E / 31.9231°N 34.8809°E / 31.9231; 34.8809 (Ramla railway station (1891 until 1998))).

Ramla West railway station

When suburban service to the Rehovot railway station, on the Lod–Ashkelon line commenced in 1990, a halt named Ramla West constructed on the line just south of the then-level crossing (now grade separation) with Road 44. However, due to its inconvenient location it was not popular and was closed after just few months.

Services

v t e Tel Aviv – Jerusalem line
Legend
to Haifa, Nahariya, Beit She'an & Karmiel to Bnei Brak & Herzliya Tel Aviv–Savidor Center Tel Aviv–HaShalom to Tel Aviv–Beit Hadar & Jaffa Tel Aviv–HaHagana to Rishon LeZion–Dayan, Ashkelon, & Be'er Sheva to Tel Aviv–South to Ben Gurion Airport, Modi'in, & Jerusalem Kfar Chabad Lod–Ganei Aviv to Rosh HaAyin & Herzliya Lod to HaRishonim, Rehovot, Ashkelon, & Be'er Sheva Ramla to Kiryat Gat & Be'er Sheva Beit Shemesh Jerusalem–Biblical Zoo Jerusalem–Malha Jerusalem–Khan to Jerusalem–Central & Jerusalem–Navon
Israel Rail Lines Map

There is hourly train service in each direction to and from Tel Aviv and Beit Shemesh, and a half-hourly train service in each direction to Nahariya via Tel Aviv and Haifa and Beersheba via Kiryat Gat.

References

1. "2019 Freedom of Information Law Annual Report" (PDF). Israel Railways.
2. Jaffa Station History, retrieved November 6, 2009
3. The History of British Military Conflicts Since 1945 – Palestine, archived from the original on April 7, 2010, retrieved November 6, 2009
4. Pasim.org - Jerusalem Line(s) Back on Track at the Wayback Machine (archive index)

External links

• Ramla Station on Israel railways website Archived 2011-10-05 at the Wayback Machine

Preceding station	Israel Railways			Following station
Lodtowards Nahariya		Nahariya–Beersheba		Mazkeret Batyatowards Be'er Sheva–Center
Lodtowards Netanya		Netanya–Beit Shemesh		Beit ShemeshTerminus

v t e Israel Railways
Main line	Coastal Nahariya Acre Kiryat Motzkin Kiryat Haim Hutzot HaMifratz HaMifratz Central Haifa Center–HaShmona Haifa–Bat Galim Haifa–Hof HaCarmel Atlit Binyamina Caesarea–Pardes Hanna Hadera–West Netanya Netanya–Sapir Beit Yehoshua Herzliya Ayalon Tel Aviv–University Tel Aviv–Savidor Center Tel Aviv–HaShalom Tel Aviv–HaHagana Jaffa–Jerusalem Kfar Chabad Lod–Ganei Aviv Lod Ramla South Mazkeret Batya Kiryat Mal'akhi–Yoav Kiryat Gat Lehavim–Rahat Be'er Sheva–North Dimona Har Tzin freight terminal
Branch lines	Acre–Karmiel Ahihud Karmiel Jezreel Valley Yokneam–Kfar Yehoshua Migdal HaEmek–Kfar Baruch Afula Beit She'an–David Levy Sharon Ra'anana–West Ra'anana–South Hod HaSharon–Sokolov Kfar Saba–Nordau Eastern Rosh HaAyin–North Yarkon Bnei Brak–Ramat HaHayal Petah Tikva–Kiryat Aryeh Petah Tikva–Segula Tel Aviv–Bnei Darom Holon Junction Holon–Wolfson Bat Yam–Yoseftal Bat Yam–Komemiyut Rishon LeZion–Moshe Dayan Yavne–West Tel Aviv–Jerusalem Ben Gurion Airport Jerusalem–Yitzhak Navon Anava–Modi'in railway Paatei Modi'in Modi'in–Center Lod–Ashkelon railway Be'er Ya'akov Rehovot Yavne–East Ashdod–Ad Halom Ashkelon Rishon LeZion–Modi'in Rishon LeZion–HaRishonim Ashkelon–Be'er Sheva Sderot Netivot Ofakim Old Tel Aviv–Jerusalem Beit Shemesh Biblical Zoo Jerusalem–Malha South Be'er Sheva–Center
Future lines	Eastern (under construction) Hadera–East Ahituv–Emeq Hefer Tayibe–Qalansuwa Tira–Kochav Ya'ir Kfar Saba–North Rosh HaAyin–North Rosh HaAyin–South El'ad Airport City Lod Rishon LeZion–Modi'in (under construction) Rishon LeZion–Moshe Dayan Rishon LeZion–Me'uyan Soreq Rishon LeZion–HaRishonim Ramla–South Paatei Modi'in Planned Karmiel-Kiryat Shmona railway Proposed Beersheba–Eilat high-speed railway
Freight lines	Heletz railway
Israel Railway Museum

• Railway stations in Central District (Israel)
• Railway stations in Israel opened in 1891
• Railway stations in Israel closed in 1998
• Railway stations in Israel opened in 2003
• Buildings and structures in Ramla