Kiryat Gat Railway Station
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Kiryat Gat Railway Station is a station on the Israel Railways
lines between Tel Aviv
(and points north) and Be'er Sheva, serving Kiryat Gat. It is located in the industrial zone in the east of Kiryat Gat. The station was first opened in July 1960, but was closed form 1979 to 1997. In December 2006 the station served a daily average of 1850 passengers.
The station is accessible by intracity bus lines 1, 1-alef, 2-alef, 3-alef, 4 and 4-alef, and the regional bus line 011 that runs between Kiryat Gat and Shekef
. All routes are operated by Egged Ta'avura
.
Israel Railways
Israel Railways is the principal passenger railway operating company in Israel, and is responsible for all inter-city and suburban rail way passenger and freight traffic in the country. All its lines are standard gauge. The network is centered in Israel's densely populated coastal plain, from...
lines between Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv , officially Tel Aviv-Yafo , is the second most populous city in Israel, with a population of 404,400 on a land area of . The city is located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline in west-central Israel. It is the largest and most populous city in the metropolitan area of Gush Dan, with...
(and points north) and Be'er Sheva, serving Kiryat Gat. It is located in the industrial zone in the east of Kiryat Gat. The station was first opened in July 1960, but was closed form 1979 to 1997. In December 2006 the station served a daily average of 1850 passengers.
The station is accessible by intracity bus lines 1, 1-alef, 2-alef, 3-alef, 4 and 4-alef, and the regional bus line 011 that runs between Kiryat Gat and Shekef
Shekef
Shekef is a moshav in south-central Israel southeast of Kiryat Gat and west of Hebron and falls under the jurisdiction of Lakhish Regional Council...
. All routes are operated by Egged Ta'avura
Egged Ta'avura
Egged Ta'avura is an Israeli bus company. It is a subsidiary of the Egged Bus Cooperative and the Ta'avura Group, and was founded by the two in 2006 from 2 other subsidiaries of Egged, following the public transportation reform and privatization in Israel in the 2000s...
.