Carmelite

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Carmelite Haifa
Carmelite in the Gan haEm mountain station, 2007
Carmelite in the Gan haEm mountain station, 2007
Route length: ≈ 1.8 km
Gauge : 1980 mm
Opening: 1959/1992
Stations: 6th
Route
   
 Paris Square - כיכר פריז
   
 Solel Bone - סולל בונה
   
 Prophet Street - הנביאים
   
 Alternative point in the middle of the route
   
 Massada - מצדה
   
 Sons of Zion - בני ציון
   
 Gan haEm - גן האם

The Carmelite ( Hebrew כרמלית ') is a subway in Haifa , the only one in Israel . The operator is Ha Carmelit Haifa Ltd.

history

The name of the subway is derived from the Carmel Mountains , in whose northern slope the Carmelite tunnel runs. The railway was built by a French company from 1956 to 1959. Operations started on October 6, 1959. After the facility was technically obsolete, it was closed in 1986, renovated and reopened with new trains in September 1992. Since then, the electrical part of the system has come from Frey AG Stans , Switzerland , and the vehicles from Doppelmayr / Garaventa , Austria . On January 1, 2017, the Carmelite was in the traffic group integrated by Haifa.

On February 4, 2017, one of the two trains, which was parked in the Kikar Paris station (Pariser Platz) during the non-traffic period of the Sabbath , caught fire. Three cars and the infrastructure were badly damaged. Thereupon the traffic stopped.

The two new vehicles were again delivered by Doppelmayr / Garaventa and can each carry 264 passengers (48 of them seated). The first of the trains was delivered from the factory in early June 2018. The trains travel at 28 km / h and, including the intermediate stops, take 10 minutes to complete the route, the previous trains did that in six minutes. The reopening took place in October 2018.

Infrastructure

The Karmelit only runs a distance of around 1.8 km and serves six stations. This makes it one of the shortest underground railways in the world. Only the Istanbul Tünel and the Serfaus Dorfbahn in Austria are shorter. The Carmelite overcomes a difference in altitude of about 275 m on its short route, which leads to a mean gradient of about 15%. It was therefore designed as a funicular . The two trains are attached to a steel cable that moves them and counterbalances their own weight. Like most funicular railways, the Karmelit runs on a single-track route with a passing point in the middle.

traffic

Two trains with two cars each run in opposite directions on the route. The travel time over the entire length of the route was twelve minutes. In inner-city traffic, the Karmelit plays a comparatively minor role with 700,000 travelers per year, as it runs on the edge of today's urban centers and was not integrated into Egged's public bus system . With joining the transport association, a doubling of the number of passengers is expected. The importance could also improve with the commissioning of the Metronit track bus system , which is to be linked to the Karmelit at the Kikar Paris stop.

Web links

Commons : Karmelit  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e The Carmelit Joins the Tariff Network . In: HaRakevet 116 (March 2017). P. 8.
  2. ^ Assessing the Damage . In: HaRakevet 116 (March 2017). P. 9.
  3. ^ But then came the catastrophically bad news . In: HaRakevet 116 (March 2017). P. 8f.
  4. ↑ message. In: HaRakevet 121 (June 2018), p. 16.
  5. ↑ Press release of the Haifa city administration of December 12, 2017. In: HaRakevet 120 (March 2018), p. 17.
  6. ↑ message. In: HaRakevet 121 (June 2018), p. 16.
  7. ↑ Michal Raz-Chaimovitz: Haifa's Carmelit subway reopens after 18 month upgrade. Globes, October 4, 2018, accessed May 30, 2019 .