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(Redirected from Beit Yehoshua Railway Station) Railway station in Israel
Beit Yehoshua
בית יהושע
General information
Coordinates32°15′46.20″N 34°51′36.95″E / 32.2628333°N 34.8602639°E / 32.2628333; 34.8602639
Platforms2
Tracks3
Construction
AccessibleYes
History
OpenedMay 1953
ElectrifiedSeptember 2022
Passengers
20192,056,937
Rank24 out of 68

Beit Yehoshua railway station (Hebrew: תחנת הרכבת בית יהושע, Taḥanat HaRakevet Beit Yehoshua) is an Israel Railways passenger station located in Beit Yehoshua and serves the village and the southern part of the city of Netanya, with its large industrial zones, as well as other small communities in the area.

Train service

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The station mostly serves suburban trains on the Binyamina–Tel Aviv–Beersheba, Netanya–Tel Aviv–Rehovot and Netanya–Tel Aviv–Beit Shemesh suburban lines with a total of four stops at the station in each direction per hour at peak times and two stops at off-peak times.


Platform 1 is used for southbound suburban or intercity trains, while platform 2 is used for northbound suburban or intercity trains. The station is situated between Netanya Sapir railway station to the north and Herzliya railway station to the south.


A small spur rail exists north of platform 2, housing a rail maintenance vehicle.


Preceding station Israel Railways Following station
Netanya–Sapirtowards Binyamina Binyamina–Beersheba Herzliyatowards Be'er Sheva–Center
NetanyaTerminus Netanya–Rehovot Herzliyatowards Rehovot
Netanya–Beit Shemesh Herzliyatowards Beit Shemesh

Station layout

Platform numbers increase in an East-to-West direction

Side platform
Platform 1 →      Nahariya–Modi'in trains toward Modi'in–Center do not stop here →
→           Nahariya–Beersheba and Karmiel–Beersheba trains toward Be'er Sheva–Center do not stop here →
→      Binyamina–Beersheba trains toward Be'er Sheva–Center (Herzliya) →
→      Netanya–Rehovot trains toward Rehovot (Herzliya) (peak hours only) →
→      Netanya–Beit Shemesh trains toward Beit Shemesh (Herzliya) (peak hours only) →
→      Night Train toward Ben Gurion Airport does not stop here →
Platform 2 ←           Nahariya–Modi'in and Nahariya–Beersheba trains toward Nahariya do not stop here
←      Karmiel–Beersheba trains toward Karmiel do not stop here
←      Binyamina–Beersheba trains toward Binyamina (Netanya–Sapir)
←           Netanya–Rehovot and Netanya–Beit Shemesh trains toward Netanya (terminus) (peak hours only)
←      Night Train toward Nahariya does not stop here
Side platform

Ridership

Passengers boarding and disembarking by year
Year Passengers Rank Source
2021 1,052,922 (Increase 377,532) 24 of 68 (Increase 1) 2021 Freedom of Information Law Annual Report
2020 675,390 (Decrease 1,381,547) 25 of 68 (Decrease 1) 2020 Freedom of Information Law Annual Report
2019 2,056,937 24 of 68 2019 Freedom of Information Law Annual Report

References

  1. "2019 Freedom of Information Law Annual Report" (PDF). Israel Railways.

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