The Carmelit is an underground funicular railway in Haifa, Israel, and the oldest underground railway system in the Middle East, Israel, called Metro "Carmelit", because Haifa is built on the top of Mount Carmel. The construction started in 1956 and ended in 1959; the Carmelit was closed in 1986 after showing the signs of ageing and reopened in September 1992 after extensive renovations. The Carmelit is one of the smallest subway systems in the world and the system with 6 stations along a single-track, 1.8-kilometre line. The system's rolling stock consists of just 4 cars making up two 2-car trains. It takes no more than 8 minutes to ride the entire line.
The Carmelit funicular is not the smallest subway system in the world, because Istanbul's "Tenel" was already built in 1875, at a length of 573 metres. But the Istanbul Metro, though, is part of the urban public transport and is not functioning independently. The Haifa subway is a closed system, not related to other types of public transport, and more steeply up the hill at an angle up to 18 degrees (in some areas), and besides, it is completely automated.
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Notable is that it is only extremely short, 1803 metres, but also the fact that the height difference between the first and last station reaches 268 metres; in other words, with every metre travelled, you climb almost 7 centimetres. Composition moves through cables, only one line, and leaves in the compositions (of the same two total) only at one point on one of six intermediate stations. Metro laid in the rock to a depth of 30 metres and is held under the residential areas of the city.
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