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Reference Sources for Palestine and Israel Railways

Palestine

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.

Parcels Van

Palestine and Israeli Railway Specific Books and Articles

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

 

 

Alexander, C; Siton, A

Railways of the Middle East: The British Influence

2020

Amberley Publishing

Amberley

 

Anon

Development of the Tel Aviv to Jersualem high speed railway in Israel

 

 

 

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

 

 

Anon

On-line ticketing, Israel update

1999

Railway gazette international. VOL 155; NUMBER 4, ; 1999, 211

 

 

Anon

Railway Development Plan of Israel Railways

1999

Rail engineering international VOL 28; NUMBER 3, ; 1999, 10-13

 

 

Anon

Railway in Israel - Signalling and Controling

2003

Signal und Draht. VOL 95; PART 11, ; 2003, 3-5 -- DEUTSCHE BAHN AG

 

 

Anon

Investment transforms Israel Railways

 

International railway journal and rapid transit review. VOL 40; PART 10, ; 2000, 27-30

 

 

Bloch, J; Sokal, J; Mendelson, E

Megadim Railway Bridge, Israel

1997

Structural engineering international. VOL 7; NUMBER 3, ; 1997, 177

 

 

Cotterell, Paul

The Railways of Palestine and Israel

1984

Tourret Publishing

Abingdon

 

Cotterell, Paul

Make Straight the Way, A Historical Album of Railways in the Land of Israel

2009

Israel Railways

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

Foster, Timothy Charles and  Dodds, James; Dodds, Catherine, eds.

Tracks in the Sand, A Railwayman's War

2018

Jardine Press

Wivenhoe, Essex

 

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 

 

 

Garraway , Allan

Garraway Father and Son Two Railway Careers

1985

Middleton Press

Midhurst

 

Great Britain. Department of Trade and Industry

Israel : Railways

1992

Great Britain, Department of Trade and Industry

London

 

Hansard

Palestine (Railways)

1935

Parliamentary Debates (Hansard), House of Commons, 17 July 1935, col. 1030–1033

 

 

Heslop, Derwent Gordon

Through Jungle, Bush and Forest

1934

Andrew Melrose Ltd.

London

 

Hughes, H

Middle East Railways

1981

Continental Railway Circle

Harrow

 

Hulagu, M Metin

Hejaz Railway: The Construction Of A New Hope

2011

Blue Dome Press

United States

 

Inter City Railway Society

North Africa : locomotives, diesel & electric multiple units of Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Morocco & Tunisia

2009

HB Publications

Hartlepool

 

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

 

 

Jenkin-Jones, C.M.

Report on the Traffic Organisation, Facilities and Rates of the Palestine Railways, 1935

1935

 

London

 

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

 

Karabell, Z

Parting the Desert: The Creation of the Suez Canal

2003

Alfred A. Knopf

New York

 

Katz, O et al.

Rock-fall hazard along the railway corridor to Jerusalem in the Soreq and Refaim valleys (Israel

2006

Israel Geological Society

 

 

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

 

 

Khairallah, S

Railways In The Middle East 1856-1948. Political and Economic Background

1991

Librairie Du Liban

Beirut

 

Kinross, JB

Between Two Seas: The Creation of the Suez Canal

1968

John Murray

London

 

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

 

 

Mackintosh, H

Middle East Movers: Royal Engineer Transportation in the Suez Canal Zone 1947-1956

2000

North Kent Books

Rochester

 

McBean, S

England, Palestine, Egypt and India, Connected by a Railway System: Popularly Explained, with a Map

1876

Wm H Allen & Co.

London

 

McMeekin, Sean

The Berlin-Baghdad Express: The Ottoman Empire and Germany's Bid for World Power, 1898-1918

2010

Penguin Books Ltd

London

 

Nicholson, J

The Hejaz Railway

2006

Palestine exploration quarterly VOL 138; NUMB 2, ; 2006, 154-155

The Council for British Research in the Levant

 

Pirie-Gordon, H, Lt-Col, ed

A Brief Record of the Advance of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force

1919

H.M.S.O.

London

 

Pole, Felix John Clewett, Sir.

Report on Proposed Railway Improvements in Palestine

1935

 

London

 

Price, Waterhouse & Co.

Palestine Railways. Report on the System of Accounting and Internal Control, 23rd May, 1935.

1935

 

London

 

RCTS

Standard gauge Locomotives of Egpytian State Railways and Palestine Railways

1946

RCTS

London

 

Regling, Dietrich and Reimar, Voss

Die Bahn der Drei Meere

1963

J. C. B. Mohr

Tubingen

 

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

 

 

Rose, CF

Railway Operations in Palestine 1947 to 1948, A Personal Memoir

1998

Royal Engineers journal. VOL 112; NUMBER 2, ; 1998, 128-133

 

 

Rosenne, S

The Jaffa-Jerusalem Railway Arbitration (1922)

1998

Israel yearbook on human rights. VOL 28, ; 1998, 239-286 -- MARTINUS NIJHOFF PUBLISHERS

 

 

Rothschild, Rabbi, Dr. Walter

Arthur Kirby and the Palestine Railways 1945-1948

2007

PhD thesis, Kings College London

 

Available as a link through www.harakevet.com
and articles

Rothschild, Walter

History of Ashdod Ad Halom Railway Station

1992

HaRakevet (18): 11

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

The Ports and Railways Authority

Ports & Railways Authority - Israel
Ports

1990

 

Haifa

 

Tourret, Richard

Allied Military Locomotives of the Second World War

1995

Tourret Publishing

Abingdon

 

Tourret, Richard

War Department Locomotives

1976

Tourret Publishing

Abingdon

 

Tourret, Richard

Hedjaz Railway

1989

Tourret Publishing

Abingdon

 

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

 

Waters, PE & Rainbow, JJ

British Military Railways in Egypt, Palestine and Syria in the Great War

2019

BORHT

Greenwich

 

Waters, PE & Rainbow, JJ

British Military Railways Overseas in the Great War

2018

BORHT

Greenwich

 

Wilbuschewitsch, N

The Industrial Development of Palestine

2019

Forgotten Books

United Kingdom

(Classic Reprint) (Paperback)

Haifa Railway Station
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