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The Souvenir Sheet is divided into 8 parts with 4 pictures in each part. The following explanation is given right to left:
1. A passenger train conductor; The
station clock that was in use during the Palestine Railways
period. Today such a clock is in the Railway Museum; Passenger
coaches near the platform at the station; A typical bell that
was in use at one of the bigger stations. There is one at the
Railway Museum now.
Above: A steam engine (0-6-0) and passenger cars that
were built in England at the turn of the century. Some of the
cars were in service until 1962.
2. Part of the passenger timetable
(1926); A train ticket for the Jaffa-Jerusalem line (before
the founding of the State); A renovated passenger car; The
interior of a passenger car.
Above: A modern diesel locomotive (2000 hp).
3. Bar-Giora station; The railway station
in Jaffa at the turn of the century; A covered platform at Lod
station; A frontal drawing of the station in Jerusalem.
Above: One of the ten articulated railcar-sets which are
due to arrive in Israel in the centennial year (1584 hp).
4. The front of the Jerusalem station;
Entrance to the Station Masters office at Lod station; Batir
station on the Jaffa-Jerusalem line in 1918; Part of the station
building at Bet-Shemesh.
Above: One of eleven railcar-sets built in Germany in
the 1950's (1000 hp), which was taken out of service in the
late '70s.
For the rest of the explanations please turn the souvenir sheet round. At the top now: Part of a log book dated 1927 of steam locomotive no. 398 with wheel arrangement 0-6-0 built by LSWR in England in the 1890's. These engines were withdrawn from servic8 during the 1930's.
5. A driver on the toot-plate of a diesel
electric locomotive; A maintenance worker on a big
diesel-electric locomotive of 2000 hp; A builder-plate of a
wagon, built in England in 1911; A typical steam locomotive in
the pre-diesel age.
Above: A steam engine which was built in England in 1942
and taken out of service in 1958 (no. 70414), wheel arrangement
2-8-0.
6. Part of a drawing of the
"Baldwin" engine (made in the United States,
1918); Greasing the wheels of a steam engine; A
diesel-electric locomotive of the type in service on the line
today; A passenger train climbing the bends of the Sorep River
on the way to Jerusalem.
Above: A modern engine manufactured in USA (3000 hp).
7. A junction at Lod station; A
mechanical signalling with semaphore arms at Lod station; An
electric signalling board in Tel Aviv Central Station, which is
meant to be joined to the Jerusalem line this year; A railroad
layout map in Lod station.
Above: A steam engine built in Scotland in 1935 (wheel
classification 4-6-0).
8. Mechanical locking points at Lod
station; A dwarf (ground) semaphore at Lod station; A staff
instrument indicator in a mechanical signalling system ensuring
safety on a single track; A "St. Andrews Cross" sign
in use at road/rail crossings with more than one track;
Above: One of the first five engines to operate on the
line (2-6-0).