Ben Gurion Airport Railway Station
| Ben Gurion Airport Railway Station תחנת נתב"ג Israel Railways |
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 Platform 1 of the airport train station at Terminal 3 |
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| Address |  Ben Gurion Airport, Israel |
| Coordinates | 32°00′01.66″N 34°52′13.91″E / 32.0004611°N 34.8705306°ECoordinates: 32°00′01.66″N 34°52′13.91″E / 32.0004611°N 34.8705306°E |
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| Opened | 10 October 2004 |
Ben Gurion Airport Railway Station (Hebrew: תחנת הרכבת נמל התעופה בן גוריון, Tahanat HaRakevet Nemal HaTe'ufa Ben Gurion) is a station on the Israel Railways lines between Tel Aviv (and points north) and Modi'in. The station is located in the lower level of Ben Gurion International Airport's Terminal 3, and was opened in 2004.[1]
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The rail journey from Ben Gurion Airport to Tel Aviv takes about fifteen minutes. Most Northbound trains from the airport then continue past Tel Aviv and terminate in Nahariya in northern Israel (for a total journey of about 2 hours from the airport). In the opposite direction, the line from the station goes southeast to Modi'in.[2] In August 2011 the station handled an average of 9,800 passengers daily.
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The station will also be a regular stop on the future Tel Aviv to Jerusalem high-speed rail line which is currently under construction. The Modi'in spur was opened fully in April 2008, but the Jerusalem link will only be operative after 2012.[3]
It is also technically feasible for trains passing through the station to reach the Lod Railway Station and indeed Tel Aviv-Lod-Beersheva trains made stops at Ben Gurion in 2007. However, revenue passenger trains on this route no longer pass through Ben Gurion and are not expected to resume doing so until upgrade work on the railway to Beersheba is completed in the late spring of 2012, at which point it is anticipated that hourly service to Lod, Kiryat Gat, Lehavim, Beersheba North and Beersheba Center will commence. By passing through Lod (which is a major rail junction in central Israel), it would also be feasible to operate trains from Ben Gurion to other destinations south of the airport such as Rehovot, Ashdod, and Ashkelon and to the existing railway station in Jerusalem.
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Double deck train on platform 2 at night.
[edit] Station Lines
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[edit] References
- ^ "Ben-Gurion Airport Station". Israel Railways. Archived from the original on 2008-04-17. http://web.archive.org/web/20080417102540/http://www.israrail.org.il/english/travel/natbag.html. Retrieved 2008-05-25.
- ^ "Natbag Line" (in Hebrew). Israel Railways. Archived from the original on 2008-05-06. http://web.archive.org/web/20080506110108/http://www.israrail.org.il/travel/natbag2000.html. Retrieved 2008-05-25.
- ^ Afra, Orit (2007-02-08). "Panacea or pain?". The Jerusalem Post. http://fr.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1170359814381. Retrieved 2008-05-25.
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