THE BRITISH OVERSEAS RAILWAYS HISTORICAL TRUST
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This page is to assist in research on Palestine Railways. Please also reference our Nigerian page for further ideas.
Firstly, a word of warning, there has been a spate in recent years of people finding books that are out of copyright, OCR’ing them and offering the copies for sale. Admittedly they do warn that the copies may not be perfect. The Trust brought a copy of a French book on African Colonial Railways that is extremely rare but found that no more than 25% of the pages were legible.
Palestine and Israel have reasonably detailed history of their railways.
On this page, the term Israeli Railways as an overarching cover for the current Israeli Railways, and its various constituents.
Some of the titles below are available in the British Library and can be found by searching their catalogue.
Journal articles listed should be available through JSTOR or appropriate online sources.
Rabbi Dr Walter Rothschild produces the quarterly magazine, Harakevet. It is available as printed copy and .pdf files; most back numbers can be accessed on the website.
The Israeli Railway Museum is at Israel Railway Museum.
Author |
Title |
Date |
Publisher |
Town |
Remarks |
Adams, WB |
The construction and duration of the permanent way of railways in Europe, and the modifications most suitable to Egypt, India, &c. |
1854 |
Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers |
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Alexander, C; Siton, A |
Railways of the Middle East: The British Influence |
2020 |
Amberley Publishing |
Amberley |
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Anon |
Development of the Tel Aviv to Jersualem high speed railway in Israel |
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Listed in the British Library Catalogue with no further details |
Anon |
On-line ticketing, Israel update |
1999 |
Railway gazette international. VOL 155; NUMBER 4, ; 1999, 211 |
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Anon |
On-line ticketing, Israel update |
1999 |
Railway gazette international. VOL 155; NUMBER 4, ; 1999, 211 |
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Anon |
Railway Development Plan of Israel Railways |
1999 |
Rail engineering international VOL 28; NUMBER 3, ; 1999, 10-13 |
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Anon |
Railway in Israel - Signalling and Controling |
2003 |
Signal und Draht. VOL 95; PART 11, ; 2003, 3-5 -- DEUTSCHE BAHN AG |
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Anon |
Investment transforms Israel Railways |
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International railway journal and rapid transit review. VOL 40; PART 10, ; 2000, 27-30 |
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Bloch, J; Sokal, J; Mendelson, E |
Megadim Railway Bridge, Israel |
1997 |
Structural engineering international. VOL 7; NUMBER 3, ; 1997, 177 |
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Cotterell, Paul |
The Railways of Palestine and Israel |
1984 |
Tourret Publishing |
Abingdon |
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Cotterell, Paul |
Make Straight the Way, A Historical Album of Railways in the Land of Israel |
2009 |
Israel Railways |
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Durschmied, F Fiebrig; M Karsch, A |
Double-deck trailercars and driving trailers for Israel Railways - Vehicle concept and equipment |
2002 |
ZEVrail : Glasers Annalen. VOL 126; PART 2/3, ; 2002, 94-105 -- GEORG SIEMENS VERLAG |
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Elias, Wafa |
Extent to which COVID-19 will affect future use of the train in Israel |
2021 |
Transport policy. Volume 110: (2021, September); pp 215-224 – Elsevier |
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Faulkner, Neil |
Lawrence of Arabia's war: the Arabs, the British, and the remaking of the Middle East in WWI |
2016 |
Yale University Press |
New Haven; London |
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Foster, Timothy Charles and Dodds, James; Dodds, Catherine, eds. |
Tracks in the Sand, A Railwayman's War |
2018 |
Jardine Press |
Wivenhoe, Essex |
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Frazer, Ian R |
Military Railways, Egyptian Expeditionary Force |
1931 |
(Paper read at Scottish section of Permanent Way Institution, 17.12.1930) Journal of the Permanent Way Institution, 1931. pp. 110-125 |
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Garraway , Allan |
Garraway Father and Son Two Railway Careers |
1985 |
Middleton Press |
Midhurst |
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Great Britain. Department of Trade and Industry |
Israel : Railways |
1992 |
Great Britain, Department of Trade and Industry |
London |
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Hansard |
Palestine (Railways) |
1935 |
Parliamentary Debates (Hansard), House of Commons, 17 July 1935, col. 1030–1033 |
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Heslop, Derwent Gordon |
Through Jungle, Bush and Forest |
1934 |
Andrew Melrose Ltd. |
London |
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Hughes, H |
Middle East Railways |
1981 |
Continental Railway Circle |
Harrow |
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Hulagu, M Metin |
Hejaz Railway: The Construction Of A New Hope |
2011 |
Blue Dome Press |
United States |
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Inter City Railway Society |
North Africa : locomotives, diesel & electric multiple units of Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Morocco & Tunisia |
2009 |
HB Publications |
Hartlepool |
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Israel, E; Cohen-Blankshtain, G |
Testing the decentralization effects of rail systems: Empirical findings from Israel |
2010 |
Transportation research. Part A, Policy and practice. VOL 44; NUMBER 7, ; 2010, 523-536 -- Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam |
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Jenkin-Jones, C.M. |
Report on the Traffic Organisation, Facilities and Rates of the Palestine Railways, 1935 |
1935 |
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London |
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Judd, Brendon |
The Desert Railway: The New Zealand Railway Group in North Africa and the Middle East during the Second World War |
2004 |
Penguin |
Auckland |
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Karabell, Z |
Parting the Desert: The Creation of the Suez Canal |
2003 |
Alfred A. Knopf |
New York |
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Katz, O et al. |
Rock-fall hazard along the railway corridor to Jerusalem in the Soreq and Refaim valleys (Israel |
2006 |
Israel Geological Society |
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Katz, O; Reichenbach, P; Guzzetti, F |
Rock fall hazard along the railway corridor to Jerusalem, Israel, in the Soreq and Refaim valleys |
2011 |
Natural hazards. VOL 56; NUMBER 3, ; 2011, 649-665 |
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Khairallah, S |
Railways In The Middle East 1856-1948. Political and Economic Background |
1991 |
Librairie Du Liban |
Beirut |
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Kinross, JB |
Between Two Seas: The Creation of the Suez Canal |
1968 |
John Murray |
London |
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Kushner, David |
The Hejaz Railway and the Ottoman Empire: Modernity, Industrialisation and Ottoman Decline |
2016 |
The Israel journal of foreign affairs. Volume 10:Issue 3 (2016); pp 545-548 |
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Mackintosh, H |
Middle East Movers: Royal Engineer Transportation in the Suez Canal Zone 1947-1956 |
2000 |
North Kent Books |
Rochester |
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McBean, S |
England, Palestine, Egypt and India, Connected by a Railway System: Popularly Explained, with a Map |
1876 |
Wm H Allen & Co. |
London |
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McMeekin, Sean |
The Berlin-Baghdad Express: The Ottoman Empire and Germany's Bid for World Power, 1898-1918 |
2010 |
Penguin Books Ltd |
London |
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Nicholson, J |
The Hejaz Railway |
2006 |
Palestine exploration quarterly VOL 138; NUMB 2, ; 2006, 154-155 |
The Council for British Research in the Levant |
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Pirie-Gordon, H, Lt-Col, ed |
A Brief Record of the Advance of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force |
1919 |
H.M.S.O. |
London |
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Pole, Felix John Clewett, Sir. |
Report on Proposed Railway Improvements in Palestine |
1935 |
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London |
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Price, Waterhouse & Co. |
Palestine Railways. Report on the System of Accounting and Internal Control, 23rd May, 1935. |
1935 |
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London |
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RCTS |
Standard gauge Locomotives of Egpytian State Railways and Palestine Railways |
1946 |
RCTS |
London |
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Regling, Dietrich and Reimar, Voss |
Die Bahn der Drei Meere |
1963 |
J. C. B. Mohr |
Tubingen |
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Rimon, E; Gossen, L |
Experiences with obstacle detection at level crossings of Israel Railways |
2008 |
DEUTSCHE BAHN AG Part: 1/2; (pages 33-35) – 2008 |
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Rose, CF |
Railway Operations in Palestine 1947 to 1948, A Personal Memoir |
1998 |
Royal Engineers journal. VOL 112; NUMBER 2, ; 1998, 128-133 |
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Rosenne, S |
The Jaffa-Jerusalem Railway Arbitration (1922) |
1998 |
Israel yearbook on human rights. VOL 28, ; 1998, 239-286 -- MARTINUS NIJHOFF PUBLISHERS |
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Rothschild, Rabbi, Dr. Walter |
Arthur Kirby and the Palestine Railways 1945-1948 |
2007 |
PhD thesis, Kings College London |
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Available as a link through www.harakevet.com |
Rothschild, Walter |
History of Ashdod Ad Halom Railway Station |
1992 |
HaRakevet (18): 11 |
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Safran, Y and Goren, T |
Ideas and Plans to Construct a Railroad in Northern Palestine in the Late Ottoman Period |
2010 |
Middle Eastern studies. VOL 46; NUMBER 5, ; 2010, 753-770 |
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Sheffy, Y |
The Origins of the British Breakthrough into South Palestine: The ANZAC Raid on the Ottoman Railway, 1917 |
1999 |
The journal of strategic studies. VOL 22; NUMBER 1, ; 1999, 124-147 |
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Sherif El-Badawy, and Jan Valentin, editors |
Sustainable Solutions for Railways and Transportation Engineering : Proceedings of the 2nd GeoMEast International Congress and Exhibition on Sustainable Civil Infrastructures, Egypt 2018 |
2018 |
Springer, 2018 |
Cham |
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The Ports and Railways Authority |
Ports & Railways Authority - Israel |
1990 |
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Haifa |
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Tourret, Richard |
Allied Military Locomotives of the Second World War |
1995 |
Tourret Publishing |
Abingdon |
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Tourret, Richard |
War Department Locomotives |
1976 |
Tourret Publishing |
Abingdon |
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Tourret, Richard |
Hedjaz Railway |
1989 |
Tourret Publishing |
Abingdon |
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Travis, Anthony S |
On Chariots with Horses of Fire & Iron: The Excursionists & the Narrow Gauge Railroad From Jaffa to Jerusalem |
2008 |
Hebrew University Magnes Press |
Jerusalem |
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Waters, PE & Rainbow, JJ |
British Military Railways in Egypt, Palestine and Syria in the Great War |
2019 |
BORHT |
Greenwich |
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Waters, PE & Rainbow, JJ |
British Military Railways Overseas in the Great War |
2018 |
BORHT |
Greenwich |
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Wilbuschewitsch, N |
The Industrial Development of Palestine |
2019 |
Forgotten Books |
United Kingdom |
(Classic Reprint) (Paperback) |
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