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Lod 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 Lod
Lod

Lod is a mixed Arab-Jewish city about 15 km southeast of Tel Aviv in the Center District of Israel. At the end of 2007, its population was 67,000....
, 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....
, served by most railway lines of 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....
. The station is located in the HaRakevet district of south Lod. In December 2006, Lod Station served a daily average of 7786 passengers.

With being only the 11th most used station of Israel Railways, Lod station is home to a major railway depot and traces its history as such to the 19th century, when it was used as an interim station on the Jaffa-Jerusalem line
Jaffa–Jerusalem railway

The Jaffa?Jerusalem railway, sometimes shortened to J & J or called the Tel Aviv?Jerusalem railway, is a historical rail transport between the cities Jaffa and Jerusalem, originally completed in 1892 in Ottoman Empire, and partly still used in Israel today....
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Lod 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 Lod
Lod

Lod is a mixed Arab-Jewish city about 15 km southeast of Tel Aviv in the Center District of Israel. At the end of 2007, its population was 67,000....
, 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....
, served by most railway lines of 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....
. The station is located in the HaRakevet district of south Lod. In December 2006, Lod Station served a daily average of 7786 passengers.

With being only the 11th most used station of Israel Railways, Lod station is home to a major railway depot and traces its history as such to the 19th century, when it was used as an interim station on the Jaffa-Jerusalem line
Jaffa–Jerusalem railway

The Jaffa?Jerusalem railway, sometimes shortened to J & J or called the Tel Aviv?Jerusalem railway, is a historical rail transport between the cities Jaffa and Jerusalem, originally completed in 1892 in Ottoman Empire, and partly still used in Israel today....
. For many years Lod was the main railway hub of Palestine and later Israel.

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Bus routes that stop outside the station are: Supebus lines 11 and 461, Egged lines 239 and 249, and Connex
Veolia Transport

Veolia Transportation is the international transport services division of the France-based multinational company Veolia Environnement. Veolia Transportation trades under the brand names of Veolia Transportation, Veolia Transport, Veolia Verkehr in Germany, with the former name Connex Melbourne preserved in Melbourne, Lebanon, Israel and Jers...
 lines 150 and 152.

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