HaEmek (Jezreel Valley) Line

The Ottomans opened the original Valley Train in 1905 as a Hejaz Railway branch, hauling Damascus-bound pilgrims down through the Jezreel Valley; the last train ran in 1948. Israel Railways rebuilt the corridor in standard gauge and reopened it in 2016: a billion-dollar, 60 km line now worked by fast double-deckers. From Haifa Bay the train crosses the valley’s farmland below Nazareth’s hills and slides below sea level to Beit She’an, one of the lowest railway stations on earth.

Stations

1. 0 kmHaMifrats Central +1
2. 16 kmYokneam – Kfar Yehoshua
3. 34 kmAfula
4. 57 kmBeit She'an

The stations that Wikidata lists as calls of this service, in order along the line as drawn here, with the distance along it. A train may skip some of them. A +N after a station: N other routes on this map stop or end there, and the map draws it as a station where lines meet.

Along the way

• Haifa Bay and Mount Carmel
• Kishon valley farmland
• Old Hejaz station at Kfar Yehoshua
• Afula, the valley capital
• Mount Gilboa slopes
• Beit She’an’s Roman ruins

How this line was checked

• Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 6656111: 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 5 m from it
• Checked against the running timetable via Israel Railways: our line passes within 18 m of every station train 99 calls at (the operator publishes no route geometry to compare)
• Wikipedia has an article for this line

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