Palestine Railways was a government-owned railway company that operated all public railways in the League of Nations mandate territory of Palestine from 1920 until 1948, headquartered at the Khoury House in Haifa. Its main line linked El Kantara in Egypt with Haifa on standard and narrow gauge track, with branch lines serving Jaffa, Jerusalem, Acre and the Jezreel Valley. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Palestine Railways (Arabic: سكة حديد فلسطين (“Palestine Railways”); Contemporary Hebrew: מסילות ברזל פלשתינה (א"י) (“Palestine (Land of Israel) Railways”) or רכבות ארץ-ישראל (“Land of Israel Railways”); Present-day Hebrew: הרכבת המנדטורית (“Mandate Railways”)) was a government-owned railway company that ran all public railways in the League of Nations mandate territory of Palestine from 1920 until 1948.
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Palestine Railways (Arabic: سكة حديد فلسطين (“Palestine Railways”); Contemporary Hebrew: מסילות ברזל פלשתינה (א"י) (“Palestine (Land of Israel) Railways”) or רכבות ארץ-ישראל (“Land of Israel Railways”); Present-day Hebrew: הרכבת המנדטורית (“Mandate Railways”)) was a government-owned railway company that ran all public railways in the League of Nations mandate territory of Pales
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