Bet Yehoshua railway station
תחנת הרכבת בית יהושע
Israel Railways
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[1]
Rank24 out of 68

Bet 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

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 Sapir
towards Binyamina
 Binyamina–Beersheba Herzliya
towards Be'er Sheva Center
Netanya
Terminus
 Netanya–Rehovot Herzliya
towards Rehovot
Netanya–Beit Shemesh Herzliya
towards Beit Shemesh

Station layout

Platform numbers increase in an East-to-West direction

Side platform
Platform 1      Nahariya–Modi'in Advancing trains toward Modi'in Central do not stop here →
          Nahariya–Beersheba and Karmiel–Beersheba Advancing trains toward Be'er Sheva Central do not stop here →
     Binyamina–Beersheba Advancing toward Be'er Sheva Central (Herzliya) →
     Netanya–Rehovot Advancing toward Rehovot (Herzliya) during peak hours only →
     Netanya–Beit Shemesh Advancing toward Beit Shemesh (Herzliya) during peak hours only →
     Binyamina–Jerusalem Advancing trains toward Jerusalem–Yitzhak Navon during night hours only, except on Wed.-Thu. nights do not stop here →
     Binyamina–Jerusalem Advancing trains toward Ben Gurion Airport during night hours on Wed.-Thu. nights only do not stop here →
Platform 2 ←           Nahariya–Modi'in and Nahariya–Beersheba Returning trains toward Nahariya do not stop here
←      Karmiel–Beersheba Returning trains toward Karmiel do not stop here
←      Binyamina–Beersheba Returning toward Binyamina (Netanya Sapir)
←           Netanya–Rehovot and Netanya–Beit Shemesh Returning toward Netanya (terminus) during peak hours only
←      Binyamina–Jerusalem Returning trains toward Binyamina during night hours only do not stop here
Side platform

Ridership

Passengers boarding and disembarking by year
YearPassengersRankSource
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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