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Article: Beit Shemesh-Tel Aviv train service to start next year
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- Jerusalem Post
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- March 12, 2002
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Headline: Beit Shemesh-Tel Aviv train service to start next year
Byline: SYBIL EHRLICH
Edition; Daily
Section: News
Page: 05
Tuesday, March 12, 2002 -- The railway line from Tel Aviv to Beit
Shemesh will begin operating by September 2003, before train service
to Jerusalem resumes, Transportation Minister Ephraim Sneh said yesterday.
Train service to and from Beit Shemesh will enable its residents to
travel directly to Tel Aviv, and from there to Haifa, Acre, and Nahariya.
New train stations are to be built at Beit Shemesh and Ramle. Work
on the new station at Beit Shemesh began three weeks ago.
A 21-kilometer-long stretch of track between Beit Shemesh and Na'an
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