Israel Railway Museum
The Israel Railway Museum ( Hebrew מוּזֵיאוֹן רַכֶּבֶת יִשְׂרָאֵל, translit .: Mūzey'ōn Rakkevet Yisra'el; English Israel Railway Museum ) in Haifa is the national railway museum of Israel .
institution
The museum, founded in 1983, is operated by Israel Railways , partly with voluntary support from interested parties. It is up to the in the schedule no longer served today Station Haifa Mizrah (Haifa East) and partly uses plants that used to be the Hedschasbahn served. This makes it interesting for those interested in railway history beyond its collection.
Historical background
The museum documents the history of the railroad since 1892 in what is now Israel, in its territorial predecessors and in some cases also in the neighboring countries to which the Palestinian rail network used to extend. The history of the railway is particularly diverse here, because with every change in the political system since the Ottoman Empire , the railway system was largely destroyed and rebuilt in a modified form. These epochs are:
- Ottoman Empire: Jaffa – Jerusalem railway , Hejaz railway (especially its Haifa – Dar'a line )
- First World War: Ottoman Military Railroad in Palestine
- League of Nations mandate Palestine: Palestine Railways , Haifa – Beirut – Tripoli military railway
- Israel: Israel Railways
exhibition
The vehicles are shown both in the halls and on an open-air site. In 2000 the museum grounds were expanded. The historical buildings from the time of the Hejaz Railway, south of the Nahariyya – Be'er Sheva railway line , were supplemented by a new exhibition hall for railway vehicles north of the railway line , and the outdoor area was also relocated there. Both parts of the museum were connected with a pedestrian bridge that crosses the railway line. In the historical buildings, equipment is primarily shown and the history of the railroad in Israel and its predecessor territories is presented on boards (also in English ).
In 2017, a small branch of the Railway Museum was set up in a well-preserved, listed , wooden former reception building in Kiryat Motzkin station.
collection
Since awareness of the historical aspect of railways developed very late in Israel, exhibits from the steam era are rare. The collection shown consists of railroad vehicles, signals , numerous smaller items from railroad operations and archive material , such as historical tickets . Outstanding exhibits are:
- The shunting locomotive , a tank locomotive , No. 10 (0-C-0) of the Hejaz Railway, the only completely preserved steam locomotive in Israel. It was built by Krauss-Maffei in Munich .
- Salon car no. 98, built in Birmingham ( England ) in 1922. Prominent users were: Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia , Queen Elisabeth of Belgium , Winston Churchill and David Ben-Gurion . The vehicle is probably the only surviving one of the former Palestine Railways that has ever made it as far as Istanbul : With a delegation from the Palestinian Railways to the Middle East Railways Conference in 1947. The vehicle was in use until the mid-1960s.
- Salon car no. 437 of the Hejaz Railway. It was manufactured in 1910 as a third class passenger car by Baume & Marpent in Belgium . The vehicle was converted by the Palestine Railways into a saloon car for King Abdallah ibn Husain I of Jordan and other dignitaries. The only repair shop (Aw) of the Hejaz Railway was in Qishon , north of Haifa . When the rail link between Jordan and Israel was interrupted after the establishment of the State of Israel, the saloon car was obviously there and remained there. It was "gutted" and used as a company synagogue for the Aw in the following years .
- British Army ambulance No. 4720 from the First World War . The car was built in Belgium in 1893 for the Egyptian National Railways . It was captured by the Israeli army in the 1956 war.
- Diesel locomotive 212, a shunting locomotive, built by Maschinenfabrik Esslingen in 1956 and delivered to Israel as part of reparations payments after the Holocaust .
visit
The museum is open Sunday through Thursday from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Entrance fee or check will be charged.
About the head of the museum it is (over 25 people) who want to visit the museum possible in an otherwise from larger groups of passengers scheduled time of no longer staffed station Haifa East Intercity - trains the connection between Haifa and Nahariya to be kept.
gallery
Hejaz Railway Monument, detail
Former reception building of the Hejaz Railway, later: Haifa Mizrah (East)
1050 mm gauge Krauss tank locomotive No. 10 of the Hejaz Railway in 1902
Tender of the NBL 2C steam locomotive No. 62, Palestine Railways P-Class 1935
Concrete bunker on flat wagons, Palestine Railways 1936
Historic wing signals
Diesel-electric EMD G12 locomotive No. 107 from 1954
EMD diesel-electric G12 locomotive No. 107 from 1954
literature
NN: Israel Railway Museum . OO, undated [issued to visitors in January 2010]. [Guide leaflet through the museum].
Cotterell, Paul (1984). The Railways of Palestine and Israel . Abingdon: Tourret Publishing. ISBN 0-905878-04-3 .
Cotterell, Paul (2011). Pave the way. A historical album of the railways in Israel, edited by Martin Frey, Verlag Hentrich & Hentrich. ISBN 978-3-942271-20-2 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Naama Riba: Kiryat Motzkin Station to Become Railway Museum . In: Haaretz of March 7, 2017. Based on: HaRakevet 117 (June 2017), p. 2f.
- ↑ General Information ( Memento of December 26, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from July 9, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Walter Rothschild: Arthur Kirby and the Last Years of Palestine Railways 1945-1948 . Dissertation 2007 University of London . Private print 2009, note 35.
- ^ A b Visiting the Museum . In: Fun . Israel Railways. Archived from the original on May 28, 2011. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 25, 2011.
Coordinates: 32 ° 48 ′ 42 ″ N , 35 ° 0 ′ 18 ″ E