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Kiryat Motzkin Railway Station is an Israel Railways passenger station serving the city of Kiryat Motzkin and the surrounding Kerayot region.LocationThe station is situated on the Coastal railway line. The station is located on Issakhar Street (רחוב יששכר, Rekhov Yissakhar) in the western part of the city, on the municipal border with Haifa's neighborhood of Kiryat Shmuel. The station is one of two railway stations serving Haifa's northern suburbs – the Krayot (the other being Kiryat Haim Railway Station), although it is slightly larger in terms of passenger numbers and trains serving it.HistoryThe present-day station stands on the spot of a halt on the Jezreel Valley railway, constructed by the Ottoman Empire in 1903-1904. In 1937, as part of converting the old narrow-gauge Ottoman railway to standard gauge, the British Mandate for Palestine constructed the station building at this location. During the Second World War, the British extended the railway north of Acre to Beirut and Tripoli, thereby placing Kiryat Motzkin Railway Station on the busy Beirut to Cairo line. This was Kiryat Motzkin's only means of transport to and from the surrounding areas, especially the city of Haifa.