Netanya–Sapir railway station (, Taḥanat HaRakevet Netanya Sapir) is an Israel Railways station located in (also known as Sapir/Poleg industrial zone) in southern Netanya, on the North-South coastal line.
History The plan to build the station was initiated in March 2001. The initial plan was for the station to be built by a private developer who would build a commercial center nearby. In September 2002, the doubling of the coastal railway from two to four tracks on the Haifa-Tel Aviv section was also approved. This is with the aim of allowing suburban and intercity trains to travel on the four tracks simultaneously.
The station plan was approved by the District Planning and Building Committee in June 2012. In March 2014, the tender for the construction of the station was published, and the station opened on November 5, 2016. The cost of building the station was approximately 70 million NIS.
In 2021, work began at the station to install an overhead electrical supply system by the Spanish company SEMI, and on September 3, 2022, the first electric train ran at the station. The system provides an alternating voltage of 25,000 volts at a frequency of 50 Hz and allows mobile railway equipment with a pantograph to operate at the station. Israel Railways currently has Bombardier Trax locomotives hauling double-deck cars from the same manufacturer and Desiro HC electric railcars manufactured by Siemens.
Station layout Platform numbers increase in an East-to-West direction
Side platformPlatform 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) do not stop here → trains toward (peak hours only) do not stop here → 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) do not stop here← toward does not stop hereSide platform
Ridership + Passengers boarding and disembarking by year Year Passengers Rank Source 2021 630,966 2021 Freedom of Information Law Annual Report 2020 407,584 2020 Freedom of Information Law Annual Report 2019 1,155,205 2019 Freedom of Information Law Annual Report
References
External links The station's page on Israel Railways website