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Beit Shemesh Railway Station is an Israel Railways
Israel Railways

Israel Railways is Israel's government-owned national railway company and is responsible for all Inter-city rail and suburban railway passenger and freight traffic in the country....
 station in Beit Shemesh, Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
 on the Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv-Yafo , usually Tel Aviv, is the List of largest cities and second largest cities by country List of cities in Israel in Israel, with an estimated population of 390,100....
 – Jerusalem
Jerusalem

Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and its List of Israeli cities in both population and area, with a population of 747,600 residents over an area of if Positions on Jerusalem East Jerusalem is included....
 line. The station is located near the northern industrial zone of Beit Shemesh. After being closed several times, it was most recently re-opened on 13 September 2003, having existed at the same location for close to a century on the railway line from Jaffa to Jerusalem originally built in the late 19th century during Ottoman
Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire , also known by its contemporaries as the Turkish Empire or Turkey , was an empire that lasted from 1299?1923. It was Treaty of Lausanne by the Republic of Turkey, which was officially proclaimed on October 29, 1923....
 rule.






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Beit Shemesh Railway Station is an Israel Railways
Israel Railways

Israel Railways is Israel's government-owned national railway company and is responsible for all Inter-city rail and suburban railway passenger and freight traffic in the country....
 station in Beit Shemesh, Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
 on the Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv-Yafo , usually Tel Aviv, is the List of largest cities and second largest cities by country List of cities in Israel in Israel, with an estimated population of 390,100....
 – Jerusalem
Jerusalem

Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and its List of Israeli cities in both population and area, with a population of 747,600 residents over an area of if Positions on Jerusalem East Jerusalem is included....
 line. The station is located near the northern industrial zone of Beit Shemesh. After being closed several times, it was most recently re-opened on 13 September 2003, having existed at the same location for close to a century on the railway line from Jaffa to Jerusalem originally built in the late 19th century during Ottoman
Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire , also known by its contemporaries as the Turkish Empire or Turkey , was an empire that lasted from 1299?1923. It was Treaty of Lausanne by the Republic of Turkey, which was officially proclaimed on October 29, 1923....
 rule. The station consists of three platforms.

There is hourly service in each direction. Some of the trains in the timetable have Beit Shemesh as their terminus and do not reach Jerusalem. These are marked as suburban trains in the timetable, although Tel Aviv - Jerusalem is an inter-city line.

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