Railway station in Tel Aviv, Israel
Tel Aviv HaHagana railway station
is a major railway station on the
Ayalon Railway
in southern
Tel Aviv
,
Israel
, serving most lines of
Israel Railways
. It is located in the median of the
Ayalon Highway
, north of
Highway 1
and 400 meters east of the
Tel Aviv Central Bus Station
. In 2019, over six million passengers used the station, making it the third-busiest in the country after the nearby
Savidor Central
and
HaShalom
stations at the time; it was subsequently overtaken by
Jerusalem?Yitzhak Navon
and demoted to fourth place, but remains the third-busiest station in Tel Aviv.
The station building fronts a road bridge above the highway, connecting Lewinsky Street with
HaHagana Road
. The station's proximity to the central bus station makes it an important interchange.
History
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The station was constructed in stages. It was originally built with a single
island platform
and two tracks. The station building was constructed above the platform, but only half of its original design was built. Later another island platform was added to the east and the station building was expanded. Finally, another
side platform
was built, which serves the line to
Ashdod
. Those tracks cross above the older
Jaffa?Jerusalem railway
south of the station.
Electrification
works in the station were completed in 2019. A sixth platform is expected to be added to the station in the mid-2020s as part of the project to add a fourth track to the Ayalon Railway.
Access
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Dan Bus Company
lines 16, 46, 54, 104, 204 and 304 stop at the station's entrance and on the other side of the HaHagana road bridge. A pedestrian pass under the bridge connects the station with the latter stop. These lines mostly serve southern Tel Aviv, with lines 104 and 204 offering a frequent and fast service to
Allenby Street
, beach promenades and
Ben Yehuda Street
. A number of lines stop at HeHarash Street, stretching immediately to the west of the station, parallel to Ayalon Highway. These include Dan line 31,
Egged
line 26 to
Bat Yam
, Egged lines 71, 171 and 271 to
Holon
, Egged line 274 to
Rehovot
and a few other lines with part-time service run by Egged and
Kavim
. The access to the Central Bus Station is via Lewinsky Street.
Train service
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Station layout
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Platform numbers increase in a West-to-East direction
Ridership
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Passengers boarding and disembarking by year
Year
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Passengers
|
Rank
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Source
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2021
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3,659,147
(
1,142,574)
|
3 of 66
(
)
|
2021 Freedom of Information Law Annual Report
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2020
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2,516,573
(
4,079,507)
|
3 of 68
(
)
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2020 Freedom of Information Law Annual Report
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2019
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6,596,080
|
3 of 68
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2019 Freedom of Information Law Annual Report
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