Ramla רמלה
General information
Location	Eli Cohen Street,Ramla
Coordinates	31°55′45.68″N34°52′36.62″E / 31.9293556°N 34.8768389°E /31.9293556; 34.8768389
Owned by	Israel Railways
Line	Tel Aviv - Jerusalem
Platforms	2
Tracks	2
Construction
Accessible	yes
History
Opened	April 1891
Closed	1998
Rebuilt	2003, 2012
Passengers
2019	861,166[1]
Rank	44 out of 68
Services
Preceding station Israel Railways Following station Lod towardsNahariya Nahariya–Beersheba Mazkeret Batya towardsBe'er Sheva–Center Lod towardsNetanya Netanya–Beit Shemesh Beit Shemesh Terminus
Location

Ramla railway station is a railway station inRamla,Israel, on theTel Aviv–Beit Shemesh–Jerusalem line. The station is located in the east ofRamla. The station is also on a section shared with theBe'er Sheva–Tel Aviv line, which branches out in a southerly direction about 3 km east of Ramla.

Ramla Station was built as part of theJaffa–Jerusalem railway, 22.5 km to the southeast of theJaffa railway station; the first service to Jaffa began in April 1891. The original Jaffa railway station closed in 1948, when the line's western terminus was changed to Tel Aviv'sBeit Hadar station (also known as the Customs House station), thus making Ramla the oldest active railway station inIsrael.^[2]

During the unrest of the1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine the original station building was bombed by theIrgun on 27 May 1947.^[3]

In the 1950s a small concretehalt was built. On August 14, 1998, the station was closed since the section of line between Jerusalem and theBeit Shemesh railway station ceased operating due to deteriorating track conditions;^[4] the station was not served by trains to Beersheba at the time.

In 2001 it was decided to relocate the station to the west, closer to Ramla's city center and adjacent to the Ramla central bus station andcivic center. The new Ramla station was opened on April 12, 2003, and service to Jerusalem resumed on April 9, 2005, the line having been completely renovated after being out of service for six years.

As part of the double-tracking and upgrading project of the Lod–Beersheba main line, the size of the station was doubled in 2012, and services to Beersheba commenced. Also as part of the project, the railway's route no longer passes next to the original 1891–1998 station location (which was located at31°55′23″N34°52′51″E / 31.9231°N 34.8809°E /31.9231; 34.8809 (Ramla railway station (1891 until 1998))).

When suburban service to theRehovot railway station, on theLod–Ashkelon line commenced in 1990, ahalt named Ramla West constructed on the line just south of the then-level crossing (now grade separation) withRoad 44. Plans were made to build a station at the halt's location, and the Armon architectural firm was chosen for this purpose.^[5] However, due to its inconvenient location it was not popular and was removed from the line's course after just few months.

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toHaifa,Nahariya,Beit She'an &Karmiel toBnei Brak &Herzliya Tel Aviv–Savidor Center Tel Aviv–HaShalom toTel Aviv–Beit Hadar &Jaffa Tel Aviv–HaHagana toRishon LeZion–Dayan,Ashkelon, &Be'er Sheva toTel Aviv–South toBen Gurion Airport,Modi'in, &Jerusalem Kfar Chabad Lod–Ganei Aviv toRosh HaAyin &Herzliya Lod toHaRishonim,Rehovot,Ashkelon, &Be'er Sheva Ramla toKiryat Gat &Be'er Sheva Beit Shemesh Jerusalem–Biblical Zoo Jerusalem–Malha Jerusalem–Khan toJerusalem–Central &Jerusalem–Navon
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There is hourly train service in each direction to and from Tel Aviv and Beit Shemesh, and a half-hourly train service in each direction to Nahariya via Tel Aviv and Haifa and Beersheba via Kiryat Gat.

• Ramla Station on Israel railways websiteArchived 2011-10-05 at theWayback Machine

• Railway stations in Central District (Israel)
• Railway stations in Israel opened in 1891
• Railway stations in Israel closed in 1998
• Railway stations in Israel opened in 2003
• Buildings and structures in Ramla

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