Rishon LeZion Moshe Dayan railway station

The Rishon LeZion Moshe Dayan railway station is an Israel Railways station in Rishon LeZion. The station is located adjacent to the Moshe Dayan Interchange on the Ayalon Highway. It serves as the terminus of a new suburban passenger line serving the cities of Holon, Bat Yam, and Rishon LeZion in southern Gush Dan. Current travel time from the station to Tel Aviv HaHagana railway station is about 18 minutes.

Rishon LeZion Moshe Dayan
תחנת הרכבת ראשון לציון משה דיין
General information
LocationMoshe Dayan Interchange (Ayalon Highway), Rishon LeZion, Israel
Coordinates31.9879°N 34.7574°E / 31.9879; 34.7574
Owned byIsrael Railways
Platforms2
Tracks4
Construction
Platform levels2
Parking450 spaces
AccessibleYes
History
Opened25 September 2011 (2011-09-25)
Electrified25 December 2021
Passengers
20192,217,849[1]
Rank23 out of 68
Services
Preceding station Israel Railways Following station
Bat Yam–Komemiyut
towards Herzliya
Herzliya–Ashkelon Yavne West
towards Ashkelon
Herzliya–
Ashkelon line
Herzliya
Future link to
Binyamina
Ra'anana West
Ra'anana South
Hod Hasharon Sokolov
Kfar Saba–Nordau
Rosh HaAyin North
Petah Tikva Sgula
Petah Tikva Kiryat Aryeh Red Line (Tel Aviv Light Rail)
Bnei Brak
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv Savidor Central Red Line (Tel Aviv Light Rail) Bus interchange
Tel Aviv HaShalom
Tel Aviv HaHagana
Holon Junction
Holon-Wolfson
Bat Yam-Yoseftal
Bat Yam-Komemiyut
Rishon LeZion
Moshe Dayan
Yavne West
Ashdod Ad Halom
Ashkelon

Future service

The railway line south of the station was extended to the new Yavne West railway station in 2012 and connects with the existing LodAshkelon railway since 2013, thereby offering improved and more direct train service from Tel Aviv to the cities of Yavne, Ashdod, and Ashkelon. Moshe Dayan also serves as a stop on new inter-city services to those cities. From Ashkelon a new railway line has been built to Beersheva and the station serves trains headed there as well.

Rishon LeZion Moshe Dayan is planned to serve as the western terminus for the future Rishon LeZion–Modi'in railway. A few hundred meters south of the station, a currently unused railway tunnel will allow trains to pass under the Ayalon Highway and travel eastward to Rishon LeZion HaRishonim railway station, from which the new line will continue to reach Modi'in and Jerusalem beyond.

It is anticipated that an extension to the Red Line LRT which is currently under construction, will make Moshe Dayan Station the southern terminus of the Red Line LRT. The future planned Green and Brown LRT lines of the Tel Aviv Light Rail will also terminate at the station (though these are not planned for operation before 2020).

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