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Bnei Brak–Ramat HaHayal בני ברק – רמת החייל
General information
Location	Mivtza Kadesh St. 1,Bnei Brak,Israel
Coordinates	32°06′10″N34°49′52″E / 32.1029°N 34.8310°E /32.1029; 34.8310
Line	Yarkon Railway
Platforms	2
Tracks	3
Construction
Structure type	At-grade
History
Opened	20 September 1949; 76 years ago (1949-09-20)
Closed	1990s
Rebuilt	2000
Electrified	25 December 2021; 3 years ago (2021-12-25)
Previous names	1949–1954: Tel Aviv haTzafon 1954–2016: Bnei Braq
Passengers
2019	1,271,141[1]
Rank	34 out of 68
Location

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Bnei Brak–Ramat HaHayal railway station is a suburban passenger railway station inIsrael, operated byIsrael Railways. It is located on theYarkon Railway near theBnei Brak–Ramat Gan and Bnei Brak–Tel Aviv borders next to theAyalon Mall andRamat Gan Stadium. In spite of its proximity to important industrial and commercial areas ofGush Dan as well as to residential areas of Tel Aviv, Bnei Brak is one of the less-popular stations of Israel Railways, possibly because of its misleading name and lack of awareness. As a result, in an effort to increase the public's awareness of the station, the name of the Ramat HaHayal neighborhood located to the north of the station was added to the station's name in 2016.

The station is located approximately 200 meters from the three-borders point between Bnei Brak, Tel Aviv and Ramat Gan, which is situated near the bridge of Mivtza Kadesh Street over theYarkon River.

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The station was originally opened on September 20, 1949, for the purpose of serving the residents of Tel Aviv, and namedTel Aviv North. At that time, neither theCoastal railway nor theAyalon railway existed, the only station serving Tel Aviv wasTel Aviv South, and the only connection fromHaifa and the north of Israel to the south was through theEastern Railway, which did not include a connection to Tel Aviv. The closest such connection was thePetah Tikva railway station, which lay at the end of a short westbound spur off the Eastern railway. In 1949, Israel Railways decided to lengthen this railroad branch further to the west, and thus created this station.

With the opening of the Coastal railway in May 1953, the Tel Aviv North branch was further lengthened westward to connect with it and the station became more relevant and served as an interim stop on the Haifa–Jerusalem service using the new Coastal Railway. This was enabled since the route through the station could connect to theJaffa–Jerusalem railway by bypassing centralGush Dan through Tel Aviv North and from there to the Eastern railway viaRosh HaAyin andLod.

With the opening ofTel Aviv Center in November 1954 by extending the Coastal railway further into Tel Aviv, the station's relevance was again put into question and its name was changed to Bnei Brak, with only a few trains on the Haifa–Jerusalem service continuing to use it. After the full opening of the Ayalon railway in the 1990s that connected the Coastal railway with the Jaffa–Jerusalem railway via theAyalon Highway in heart of the Tel Aviv region, passenger service on the branch to Bnei Brak and Petah Tikva was abandoned entirely.

On June 3, 2000, a new suburban service was initiated by Israel Railways, going from Tel Aviv to theRosh HaAyin South railway station. The Bnei Brak station became part of this line and opened later the same year. The station remained a stop on the route when a few years later, Rosh HaAyin South station was closed and the suburban line's terminus was changed toKfar Sava via the newRosh HaAyin North railway station.

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The passenger station has three platforms—one adjacent to the entrance, and two on an island between two rail tracks.

The station complex also includes a freight terminal and a largerail yard as well as now mostly-disused industrialsidings to warehouses and factories adjacent to the site.

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  Industrial spur to RamidSilo in Bney Brak rail yard
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  Bney Brak rail yard, the view from the east

Despite its name, Bnei Brak station is close to manynortheastern neighborhoods of Tel Aviv, as well as the Bnei Brak industrial zone, and is relatively easily accessible by public transport fromRamat HaSharon. Northeastern Tel Aviv (Ever HaYarkon neighborhoods) is accessible by bus service operated byDan Bus Company, namely the circular line 81,^[2] connectingRamat HaHayal directly with the station. The station is also a walking distance from the Ramat HaHayal business and leisure zone in Tel Aviv.^[3]

The access to the station is from Lehi Street, acul-de-sac connected to Mivtza Kadesh Street, which divides Bnei Brak and Ramat Gan. Several bus lines travel along Mivtza Kadesh Street and stop near the station's entrance. Most of the lines to Tel Aviv, Ramat Gan and Bnei Brak are operated byDan, but lines 524, 525 and 531 toRamat HaSharon andHerzliya areMetropoline lines, and line 137 toYehud viaKiryat Ono is operated byMetropoline.^[4] A Dan bus terminal located nearAyalon Mall offers additional connections to Ramat Gan andGiv'atayim.

Preceding station	Israel Railways			Following station
Petah Tikva–Kiryat Aryeh towardsHerzliya		Herzliya–Ashkelon		Tel Aviv–University towardsAshkelon

Passengers boarding and disembarking by year

Year	Passengers	Rank	Source
2021	282,841( 37,979)	47 of 66( 8)	2021 Freedom of Information Law Annual Report
2020	320,820( 950,321)	39 of 68( 5)	2020 Freedom of Information Law Annual Report
2019	1,271,141	34 of 68	2019 Freedom of Information Law Annual Report

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• Railway stations in Israel opened in 2000

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