Mountain route
Carmelit
Haifa (Paris Square) → Carmel Center · Israel
Israel’s only fully underground railway and one of the world’s smallest metros: six stepped stations rising 274 m inside Mount Carmel.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 16226360 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 9 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via Israel Railways: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of עיר תחתית-חיפה–מרכז הכרמל-חיפה-10
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Questions and answers
How long is the Carmelit?
The Carmelit runs 1.8 km from Haifa (Paris Square) to Carmel Center.
How long does the Carmelit take?
The fastest scheduled journey is 6 min for the 1.8 km. That is an average of 18 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 28 km/h.
Who runs the Carmelit?
Carmelit Haifa, with two stepped Von Roll/Doppelmayr trains, refurbished 2018.
How old is the Carmelit?
The line has been in service since 1959. That is the year the atlas dates it from: for a modern brand running over an older railway, it is the railway's date, not the brand's.
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