Between about 1922 and 1948, Hadera-East station was on the old Palestine Railways main line from Haifa to Lod and Egypt. ISR trains continued to pass there until the opening of the then-new coastal line from Haifa to Tel Aviv via Hadera-West station, in the early 1960s, after which Hadera-East became a ghost station. In this May 1993 photo, ISR class GP-12 #113 is about to reverse into the closed station with just two empty wagons from the adjacent Hadera Grain Mill. A sad end to a great line.

Photo and scan by Alon Siton <a_siton@hotmail.com>