Hadera East railway station

Hadera–East railway station is a railway station in Hadera, Israel. It originally served as the northern terminus of the Eastern Railway. In 1968, the line was closed to passengers and the railway south of the station to Kfar Saba was abandoned. A short section of the Eastern Railway connecting the station north to the Coastal railway line was left in operation—being used by freight trains serving the Granot "Ambar North" large feed mill complex near Gan Shmuel that is located adjacent to Hadera East station. Starting in 2022, the station underwent extensive construction and restoration in anticipation of being reopened in the late 2020s as part of the re-building effort of the Eastern Railway. On June 28, 2026, the station officially reopened completely rebuilt offering train services to Rosh HaAyin–North via Tayibe and Tira.

During the Sinai and Palestine Campaign of World War I, the Ottoman authorities in Palestine constructed the railway between the Jezreel Valley railway in Afula southwards via Jenin and Tulkarm to Lydda, where it connected to the Jaffa–Jerusalem railway and the Railway to Beersheba. The northwards extension from Tulkarm to Hadera allowed transporting timber from the forests around Hadera that was used as fuel and for infrastructure. The line was built as narrow gauge (1050 mm) like the rest of the Ottoman railways in the region, and was situated relatively inland to avoid the reach of naval guns from Royal Navy warships patrolling the Mediterranean coast. In the forests of Hadera, the Ottoman railway split into two branches, one ending about 1.6 km south-west from Hadera, the other about 2.5 km north from Karkur; neither of these branches served any settlement, although they provided a link with the military bases that developed around Hadera.

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