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Trains running once again following strike, delays expected

The trains have been a dysfunctional form of public transportation in Israel for the past few weeks with numerous cases of extreme delays and cancellations.

|ByTAMAR URIEL-BEERI
Cars drive on a highway as a train enters a station in Tel Aviv, Israel November 25, 2018
COME ON ride the train: The first locomotive debuts during a test run in mid-January.

New Tel Aviv-Jerusalem train stuck in tunnel for hours

Rabbi Josh Yuter, a passenger on the train, told the Jerusalem Post that "there was an electrical problem and they couldn't move any further."

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
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Israel Railways announces billion-shekel upgrades for future electric system

IR announced its purchase of 60 new passenger cars from Canadian manufacturer Bombardier.

|ByMICHELLE MALKA GROSSMAN
A train runs parallel to the Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv

In favor of trains

"My biorhythms adapted to the train schedule – and I realized I was enjoying this way of reaching my destination."

|ByPATRICIA CARMEL

Seven killed, 200 wounded in Amtrak wreck that was moving at twice speed limit

brakes managed to only slightly slow the train from 106 mph to 102 mph in the few seconds before the locomotive and all seven passenger cars derailed.

MAY 14, 2015
ByREUTERS
Emergency workers and Amtrak personnel inspect a derailed Amtrak train in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania