Dimona railway station

Coordinates: 31°04′12″N 35°00′38″E / 31.070028°N 35.01066°E

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Dimona דימונה

General information
Coordinates	31°04′12″N 35°00′38″E / 31.070028°N 35.01066°E / 31.070028; 35.01066
History
Opened	December 17, 2005
Passengers

2019	14,745^[1]
Rank	68 out of 68

Dimona railway station (Hebrew: תחנת הרכבת דימונה, Takhanat HaRakevet Dimona) is a train station in Dimona, Israel, opened in 2005.

It is on a 35-kilometre long (22 mi) line between Dimona and Beersheba, a separate operating line within Israel Railways. The track carries on beyond the actual town itself to mines and freight yards.

Partly due to the station's distance from central Dimona, ridership is very low. With only 14,745 passengers recorded in 2019, the station was the least used in all of Israel. However, proposals to close it on account of poor usage have been rejected in order to preserve passenger rail service to the historically deprived development town.^[2]

Preceding station	Israel Railways			Following station
Be'er Sheva–North Terminus		Beersheba–Dimona		Terminus

Israel Railways

Main line

Coastal	Nahariya Acre Kiryat Motzkin Kiryat Haim Hutzot HaMifratz HaMifratz Central Haifa Center–HaShmona Haifa–Bat Galim Haifa–Hof HaCarmel Atlit Binyamina Caesarea–Pardes Hanna Hadera–West Netanya Netanya–Sapir Beit Yehoshua Herzliya
Ayalon	Tel Aviv–University Tel Aviv–Savidor Center Tel Aviv–HaShalom Tel Aviv–HaHagana
Jaffa–Jerusalem	Kfar Chabad Lod–Ganei Aviv Lod Ramla
South	Mazkeret Batya Kiryat Mal'akhi–Yoav Kiryat Gat Lehavim–Rahat Be'er Sheva–North Dimona Har Tzin freight terminal

Branch lines

Acre–Karmiel	Ahihud Karmiel
Jezreel Valley	Yokneam–Kfar Yehoshua Migdal HaEmek–Kfar Baruch Afula Beit She'an–David Levy
Sharon	Ra'anana–West Ra'anana–South Hod HaSharon–Sokolov Kfar Saba–Nordau
Eastern	Rosh HaAyin–North
Yarkon	Bnei Brak–Ramat HaHayal Petah Tikva–Kiryat Aryeh Petah Tikva–Segula
Tel Aviv–Bnei Darom	Holon Junction Holon–Wolfson Bat Yam–Yoseftal Bat Yam–Komemiyut Rishon LeZion–Moshe Dayan Yavne–West
Tel Aviv–Jerusalem	Ben Gurion Airport Jerusalem–Yitzhak Navon
Anava–Modi'in railway	Paatei Modi'in Modi'in–Center
Lod–Ashkelon railway	Be'er Ya'akov Rehovot Yavne–East Ashdod–Ad Halom Ashkelon
Rishon LeZion–Modi'in	Rishon LeZion–HaRishonim
Ashkelon–Be'er Sheva	Sderot Netivot Ofakim
Old Tel Aviv–Jerusalem	Beit Shemesh ~~Biblical Zoo~~ ~~Jerusalem–Malha~~
South	Be'er Sheva–Center

Future lines

Eastern (under construction)	~~Hadera–East~~ ~~Ahituv–Emeq Hefer~~ Tayibe–Qalansuwa Tira–Kochav Ya'ir Kfar Saba–North Rosh HaAyin–North ~~Rosh HaAyin–South~~ El'ad Airport City Lod
Rishon LeZion–Modi'in (under construction)	Rishon LeZion–Moshe Dayan Rishon LeZion–Me'uyan Soreq Rishon LeZion–HaRishonim Ramla–South Paatei Modi'in
Planned	Karmiel-Kiryat Shmona railway
Proposed	Beersheba–Eilat high-speed railway

Freight lines

Heletz railway

Israel Railway Museum

References

^ "2019 Freedom of Information Law Annual Report" (PDF). Israel Railways.
^ Keinan, Lior (27 June 2020). "רגב נגד האוצר: מסרבת לבטל את הקו לדימונה - חרף מיעוט נוסעים". Channel 13 News. Retrieved 19 March 2021.

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