Airport City railway station, called Te'ufa railway station in Hebrew (, ''Tahanat HaRakevet Te'ufa''), is a future

Israel Railways Israel Railways Ltd. (, ''Rakevet Yisra'el'') is the state-owned principal railway company responsible for all inter-city, commuter, and freight rail transport in Israel. Israel Railways network consists of of track. All its lines are standar ...

station under construction as part of the Eastern Railway. It is intended to service the

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business park west of

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's Terminal 1. In addition to Eastern Railway services, Airport City station will be linked to the existing Ben Gurion Airport railway station in Terminal 3, allowing direct services from Airport City to Tel Aviv, without a transfer from the Eastern Railway in Lod.

History

The station was built on the lands of the ancient village of

Kafr Jinnis Kafr Jinnis (Arabic: كفر جنّس; Hebrew: כפר ג'ינס) is an ancient site in modern-day Israel, 2 kilometers west of Ben Gurion Airport in Israel's Central District. History The site has been inhabited since at least the Roman period ...

. Airport City station corresponds to the British

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-era Kafr Jinnis railway station, which was built by the British military as part of a during the

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; Kafr Jinnis was where the branch diverged from the Eastern Railway proper. Kafr Jinnis was closed for passenger services in 1933, but continued to exist as a freight station up until the 1950s.

References

{{Israel Railways Railway stations in Central District (Israel) Defunct railway stations in Israel