Hof HaCarmel Railway Station
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Haifa Hof HaCarmel
תחנת הרכבת חיפה חוף הכרמל |
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| Israel Railways | |
Looking up from the centre platform, with Israel Railways' control centre situated above.
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| Coordinates | 32°47′36.5″N 34°57′26.38″E / 32.793472°N 34.9573278°ECoordinates: 32°47′36.5″N 34°57′26.38″E / 32.793472°N 34.9573278°E |
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| Opened | July 10, 1999 |
Haifa Hof HaCarmel Railway Station (Hebrew: תחנת הרכבת חיפה חוף הכרמל, Taḥanat HaRakevet Haifa Ḥof HaCarmel, lit. Carmel Coast railway station, sometimes spelled Haifa Hof HaKarmel) is an Israel Railways passenger station serving the city of Haifa, Israel.
The station is situated on the north-south Coastal line in southwest Haifa. It is located on Sakharov street adjacent to Haifa Hof HaCarmel Central Bus Station, just north of Haifa South interchange, where the Coastal Highway (Highway 2) splits into Highway 4 and the Carmel Tunnels. The station is within walking distance of two shopping malls (Haifa Mall and Castra Mall), Haifa's Congressional Center and the MATAM hi-tech park. It is one of three railway stations serving the city of Haifa directly and one of six stations within Haifa's municipal borders.
During the British Mandate, the station was known as Kfar Samir. Carmel Beach Railway Station was built during the first half of 1999 as part of the Carmel Beach Transport complex on the southern outskirts of Haifa. It opened on July 10, 1999. In the spring of 2006, work began on a second story to house a modern control and supervision center. The construction was completed by the end of 2007.
During the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict train service to the station was suspended after a Hezbollah Katyusha rocket hit a train depot in Haifa on July 16, 2006, killing 8 Israel Railways workers. This suspension meant that Haifa, in addition to the rest of northern Israel, was cut off from the train network. The service was reinstated several days later, after Israel Railways gave in to heavy public pressure led by Haifa’s mayor, Yona Yahav. This made it the northernmost station to operate during the war, providing the only train link to the whole of northern Israel.
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