Morning rail commuters ran into delays Monday after an electric fault shut down part of a line running along the coast, with Israel Railways advising passengers to find alternative means of travel.
The rail company announced train services were stopped between Hadera and Netanya in both directions due to the fault.
“The train crews are working to repair the malfunction and return traffic to normal as soon as possible,” Israel Railways said in a statement.
It advised people to “use alternative public transportation.”
The problem was caused by a cable disconnecting from a pylon earlier in the morning in the area of Kfar Vitkin, the Ynet outlet reported without citing sources.
Ron Schwartz, a resident of Kiryat Motzkin, was up early to catch a 5.32 a.m. train to Modiin but was unable to get past Hadera due to the fault.
“We’re all stuck here, I work in the center and travel every morning. It’s very frustrating, I’m trying to get a bus. There are changes every day and it’s very frustrating,” he told Ynet.
Passengers wait in an around the block line to enter Tel Aviv’s HaShalom train station during the early evening, December 5, 2021. (Carrie Keller-Lynn/Times of Israel)
Long lines formed at Haifa’s central station as commuters arrived to make their daily journey but found there was no service available.
Israel Railways laid on shuttle buses to ferry passengers between Hadera and Netanya, Walla reported.
In addition, there were schedule changes and delays on lines between Tel Aviv and Ashkelon due to an electrical short circuit between Tel Aviv’s Ha’Hagana station and Rishon Lezion’s Moshe Dayan Station.
The delays were caused by a fault at Holon’s Wolfson Station, Ynet reported, and published a short video clip showing a flash at the side of the track, just below the platform level.
It is the second time in days that faults have disrupted train services after last Thursday morning an electrical malfunction shuttered train service to most of Tel Aviv and some of the surrounding area.
There have been a number of similar incidents in recent months of cables disconnecting, including three occasions when cables hit passing train carriages causing a shutdown of the lines until they were repaired, according to Ynet.
The problems are not in the overhead cables that power the trains but rather in supply lines for the system where fastenings that attach the wires have come loose, the report said.
Israel Railways is currently reviewing aspects of the infrastructure that hold supply cables in place after it was found that the problematic components are from the same 2017 production series and have broken off at a number of locations around the country, Ynet said.
Most of the rail network has already been checked and work is not focusing on the central Sharon area where Monday’s fault happened.
Israelis, some of them anti-overhaul protesters, get off the train at Ben Gurion Airport, July 11, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
However, more disruptions are looming for commuters as anti-government protesters have said they will target the rail network on Tuesday, aiming to jam platforms alongside blocking roads. The train disruptions are an alternative to previous actions that clogged terminals and access at Ben Gurion Airport, organizers said.
It will come as part of a day of protest across the country to oppose continued legislation of a drastic judicial overhaul.
There have been mass protests against the judicial plan since January. While the government says it is needed to rein in what it sees as an overreaching and left-leaning court system, critics say it will dangerously erode the country’s democratic character by upsetting the system of checks and balances against parliament’s power, and leaving the rights of minorities unprotected.
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