Bertsdorf station
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 Entrance building, Jonsdorf side
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| Operating point type | railway station |
| Location in the network | Separation station |
| Design | Island station |
| Platform tracks | 4th |
| abbreviation | DBTS |
| opening | December 5, 1890 |
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| City / municipality | Olbersdorf |
| country | Saxony |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 52 '6 " N , 14 ° 44' 49" E |
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| Railway stations and stops in Saxony | |
The Bertsdorf station is an operating point of the narrow-gauge railway Zittau – Kurort Oybin and the branching line to the health resort Jonsdorf in the municipality of Olbersdorf in Saxony. The eponymous place Bertsdorf is about two kilometers away in a north-westerly direction.
Bertsdorf station is one of the few stations on the Saxon narrow-gauge railways that has a mechanical interlocking , but no signals . The departure orders are communicated to the train crew by means of illuminated signs on the signal box. For years, the locomotive shed was used to store historically valuable vehicles such as the VT 137 322 and is now used as a museum by the Zittauer Schmalspurbahnen interest group.
history
When the Zittau narrow-gauge railway was opened by the Zittau-Oybin-Jonsdorfer Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (ZOJE) on December 15, 1890 , the Bertsdorf station essentially had its shape and size as it is today. The ownership structure of the Zittau narrow-gauge railway and thus of the Bertsdorf station has changed several times since then. In 1906 the railway came to the Royal Saxon State Railways , 1920 to the Deutsche Reichsbahn , 1994 to Deutsche Bahn AG and 1996 to the Saxon-Upper Lusatian Railway Company (SOEG) owned by the district and the neighboring communities .
From the beginning, the station was designed for excursion traffic to the Zittau Mountains . There was freight transport in the early years, but only to a small extent. From 1969 onwards, no freight trains went to Bertsdorf station. As a result, the station building in Bertsdorf was built. The station was designed as an island station ; the station building is located between the group of tracks to Oybin / Jonsdorf and the track to Zittau . The tracks were also sufficiently designed for the double-track expansion of the line between Oybin and Zittau Vorstadt, which was completed in 1913, and have only been changed little to this day. Sidings are no longer available and some stabling and shunting tracks have been added. In 1914, the station was given a U-shaped roof, which enabled passengers to reach the tracks in the direction of Jonsdorf from the track leading in the direction of Zittau.
Bertsdorf station has been a train control center since operations began . This was particularly expressed in 1938 when a mechanical signal box was built at the station, in which the station's dispatcher also has his place. The specialty of this signal box is the possibility of mechanical setting of all points in the station; There are no signals. In addition, the station also has a few sidings, farm buildings and railway houses.
After the Second World War , after initial difficulties, the excursion traffic to the Zittau Mountains developed again with respectable train lengths, which brought the Bertsdorf station to the capacity limit of the platform length. The double-track operation to Oybin had already been discontinued during the war, on the section from Bertsdorf to Zittau Vorstadt the second track was dismantled after the war. The simplified branch line operation was gradually introduced by 1981 . As part of the GDR's lignite- oriented energy policy , the Zittau narrow-gauge railway was to fall victim to the Olbersdorf open-cast mine at the end of the 1980s . As an alternative to the transport links to the Zittau Mountains, the construction of an electric tram was planned. Due to the turning point in the GDR and the subsequent cessation of lignite mining, these plans were not implemented. After a thorough track renovation, the Zittau narrow-gauge railway became the property of SOEG. Today the station is an open museum station . All facilities can be visited publicly once a month.
The station is a listed building due to its architectural, traffic and technical history.
Platforms
The station has a total of four platform tracks, three of which are to the west and one to the east of the reception building. There are also two sidings for groups of wagons next to the track in the direction of Jonsdorf and next to the station building. The platform tracks are roofed in a U-shape, the roofs were not yet in place at the beginning of the ZOJE.
traffic
In the early years of the railway, five pairs of trains ran through the station every day. In 1935 seven pairs of trains operated, to which six reinforcement trains from Zittau Vorstadt were added as multiple units. There were also several excursion trains, depending on the weather. In 2015, two pairs of trains run between Zittau and Bertsdorf and between Bertsdorf and Jonsdorf and four pairs of trains between Bertsdorf and Oybin in the low season from February 23 to April 1 and November 27 to December 12. In the main season, from December 19 to January 4, from January 30 to February 22 and from April 2 to November 1, five pairs of trains run between the terminus stations, and four pairs of trains are added at the weekend. During the main season, there are daily double exits from the trains to Oybin and Jonsdorf at Bertsdorf station. There is no train service in November as the time is used to maintain the route.
Engine shed
The locomotive shed in Bertsdorf has existed since the start of operations, when the ZOJE locomotives were currently based here. It was not until 1910 that the locomotives were placed in the Zittau locomotive shed. Since then, the Bertsdorfer shed has been used to store reserve locomotives. For this it was expanded in 1911 and 1938. An extension was added in 1939. The plan was to expand the locomotive shed for the four railcars, but this work was no longer carried out due to the Second World War. The engine shed is now as large as it was in 1938. Two water cranes from the Wilhelminian era are set up on the tracks to Oybin and Jonsdorf.
After 1945 the locomotive shed was used to park historically valuable vehicles. The diesel locomotives used for operational trials in Zittau were stored in the Bertsdorf locomotive shed until they were scrapped. For years, the VT 137 322 and the 99 555 were parked together with the 99 4532 in the locomotive shed until they were ready for use .
From 1906 the ZOJE locomotives were located in Bertsdorf . These were initially locomotives of the IK series and, from 1909, the IV K series . From the First World War , locomotives of the VI K series and from 1928 the DR series 99.73–76 were at home.
Todays use
The facilities can be viewed once a month as part of the open museum station. At the present time, some historical locomotives and objects are on display. So here is the original VOMAG - diesel engine of the VT 137 322. The association of Zittau narrow gauge railways here has its seat.
View of the signal box and engine shed from the track in Oybin
Double exit in Bertsdorf with the signal box in the background
Locomotive shed, coal shed and farm buildings in Bertsdorf station
Inside in the reception building
Service room in Bertsdorf station
Open freight car in front of the engine shed
literature
- Wilfried Rettig: Railways in the border triangle. Volume 2: secondary, small and narrow-gauge railways. EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-88255-733-6 .
Web links
- Website about the Berzdorf Museum Station on the SOEG mbH website
- Website about Bertsdorf train station on www.sachsenschiene.net Narrow-gauge railway Zittau - Oybin - Jonsdorf on www.sachsenschiene.net
- Pictures from the Bertsdorf train station from 1920 to 1970
Individual evidence
- ↑ Website of the Sächsisch-Oberlausitzer Eisenbahngesellschaft mbH
- ↑ Historical photo of the station hotel on www.sachsenschiene.net
- ↑ a b c d Wilfried Rettig: Railways in the three-country corner. Volume 2: secondary, small and narrow-gauge railways. EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-88255-733-6 , p. 50.
- ↑ Track plan of the Bertsdorf station on www.sachsenschiene.net
- ↑ Track plan from Bertsdorf train station today on www.soeg-zittau.de
- ↑ List of listed monuments of the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Saxony, as of April 15, 2014
- ^ Wilfried Rettig: Railways in the three-country corner. Volume 2: secondary, small and narrow-gauge railways. EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-88255-733-6 , p. 49.
- ↑ Website about Bertsdorf train station at www.soeg-zittau.de
- ↑ Website about the historic vehicles in the Bertsdorf locomotive shed
