Beit Yehoshua railway station explained

Bet Yehoshua
Native Name:בית יהושע
Native Name Lang:he
Platform:2
Tracks:3
Passengers:2,056,937[1]
Pass Year:2019
Pass Rank:24 out of 68
Opened:May 1953
Electrified:September 2022
Accessible:yes

Bet Yehoshua railway station (he|תחנת הרכבת בית יהושע, Taḥanat HaRakevet Beit Yehoshua) is an Israel Railways passenger station located in Beit Yehoshua and serves the village and the southern part of the city of Netanya, with its large industrial zones, as well as other small communities in the area.

Train service

The station mostly serves suburban trains on the Binyamina–Tel Aviv–Beersheba, Netanya–Tel Aviv–Rehovot and Netanya–Tel Aviv–Beit Shemesh suburban lines with a total of four stops at the station in each direction per hour at peak times and two stops at off-peak times.

Platform 1 is used for southbound suburban or intercity trains, while platform 2 is used for northbound suburban or intercity trains. The station is situated between Netanya Sapir railway station to the north and Herzliya railway station to the south.

A small spur rail exists north of platform 2, housing a rail maintenance vehicle.

Station layout

Platform numbers increase in an East-to-West direction

Side platform
Platform 1 trains toward do not stop here →
Nahariya–Beersheba and Karmiel–Beersheba trains toward do not stop here →
trains toward →
trains toward (peak hours only) →
trains toward (peak hours only) →
toward does not stop here →
Platform 2← Nahariya–Modi'in and Nahariya–Beersheba trains toward do not stop here
← trains toward do not stop here
← trains toward
← Netanya–Rehovot and Netanya–Beit Shemesh trains toward (peak hours only)
← toward does not stop here
Side platform

Ridership

Passengers boarding and disembarking by year
Year Passengers Rank Source
20211,052,922 2021 Freedom of Information Law Annual Report
2020675,390 2020 Freedom of Information Law Annual Report
20192,056,9372019 Freedom of Information Law Annual Report

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2019 Freedom of Information Law Annual Report . Israel Railways.