Bad Liebenstein train station
| Bad Liebenstein train station | |
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 Bad Liebenstein railway station 1990
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| Data | |
| Location in the network | Terminus |
| Platform tracks | 1 |
| abbreviation | UBli |
| opening | 1889 |
| Conveyance | 1973 |
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| Architectural style | Truss |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Bad Liebenstein |
| country | Thuringia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 49 '9 " N , 10 ° 20' 38" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 344 m |
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| Railway stations in Thuringia | |
The Bad Liebenstein station was opened as the end of the Immelborn railway line under the name Liebenstein - Schweina .
history
On August 1, 1889, the Immelborn – Liebenstein-Schweina railway was officially opened. A further construction of the line to Waltershausen or Friedrichroda did not take place at that time, so that the station did not have a crossing track. In 1924 the station was renamed Bad Liebenstein-Schweina and a few years later, in 1927, the extension of the railway line to Steinbach station (Meiningen district) was put into operation. Around the same time was Lokbahnhof of railway operations work Meiningen closed. Since the state of Thuringia withdrew the financial support for a connection between tracks 1 and 2, the station could not be expanded into a junction station.
In the years between 1916 and 1927 there was a connection to the Steinbacher Bergwerksbahn in the station .
After the Second World War, the station was again renamed Bad Liebenstein and there was an express train connection Bad Liebenstein - Leipzig Hbf or Bad Liebenstein - Zwickau . In 1960 around 20 trains a day served the station. In the mid-1960s, the vehicle was only driven for wear and tear and the top speed was falling steadily. The express train was converted into a through car and passenger traffic was discontinued in 1968. The closure of the line and the closure of the freight tariff station took place on January 13, 1973.
Ticket issuance and baggage handling remained open at Bad Liebenstein train station until 1993. The Mitropa restaurant remained until 1990. After years of vacancy, the building, which had previously been a listed building, was demolished in 2002. Only the two-tier locomotive shed (fire station since 2006) and a filled-in head ramp have been preserved of the railway systems .
In its largest extension, the station had seven other tracks in addition to the continuous main track, three of which were loading tracks and two as access to the locomotive shed. In addition to the station building, there were also goods handling , a toilet building and a post office storage shed as well as a loading gauge and a water crane . Furthermore, the station was equipped with a two- wing mechanical entry signal from Immelborn (there was only one entry on track 1, but the entry point was in the arch) and from Steinbach it was equipped with a single-wing entry signal. Instead of pre-signals , cross signs were set up. The Jüdel- type mechanical signal box was located in the station building and also secured the driveway .
literature
- further reading
- Gunnar Möller, Gernot Malsch, Günter Paulik: Up the Hockelhans . Wachsenburgverlag, Arnstadt 2002, ISBN 3-935795-04-1
- Other things about the train station
- Around 1966 a series of photos was taken by Zeuke & Wegwerth for the TT magazine Modellbahn-Praxis at Bad Liebenstein train station .
- Modellbahnkurier , EK-Verlag Freiburg 2007. The entire branch line was presented.
- Florets . Reprint Elch-Verlag Bad Liebenstein 1999, ISBN 3-933566-07-X . A narrative of a train journey around 1900
- Movies
- Outsider front runner with Hans-Joachim Wolfram , episode 79: Station without trains