Cranzahl station
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 Station building, track side (2010)
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| Operating point type | railway station |
| Location in the network | Connecting station |
| Platform tracks | 3 |
| abbreviation | DCR |
| IBNR | 8010074 |
| Price range | 6th |
| opening | 1872 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Cran number |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Sehmatal |
| country | Saxony |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 30 ′ 40 " N , 12 ° 59 ′ 34" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 654 m |
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| Railway stations and stops in Saxony | |
The station Cranzahl is an operating point of the railway line Vejprty – Annaberg-Buchholz unt Bf and the adjoining narrow-gauge railway Cranzahl – Kurort Oberwiesenthal in the area of the district Cranzahl of the municipality Sehmatal in Saxony .
history
Cranzahl received a rail connection on the Weipert – Annaberg railway line opened on August 3, 1872. In 1880 the first part of today's reception building was built.
With the construction of the narrow-gauge railway, the station was also expanded. The station building was also rebuilt and received its current form. Two variants were planned for integrating the narrow-gauge railway. One north of the existing standard gauge systems and one south of it. Since they feared snow problems with the second in winter and the former could be built with significantly less construction work, the decision was made for the former, but now a crossing between normal and narrow-gauge tracks was necessary at the station exit. A separate boiler house , a reloading hall and an equipment transfer ramp were newly built on high-rise buildings .
A trolley pit was already included in the planning, which was built in 1899. In 1906 this was replaced by a trolley pit. Due to the unexpectedly high level of winter sports excursion traffic, the station was an operational obstacle. A second platform track was built for the narrow-gauge railway as early as 1900, but this too did not solve the problem. From 1912 onwards, the station was fundamentally expanded.
A new section of the station for passenger traffic on the narrow-gauge railway was built south of the standard gauge systems. To do this, sufficient building site must be blasted into the mountainside. Since the completion of the renovation work, passenger trains no longer have to cross the standard-gauge line, and narrow-gauge train crossings in Cran numbers are also possible. The goods facilities remained at their previous location. The station's facilities have hardly changed since then. The boiler house, which is mainly used as a workshop, received an extension with a real workshop in the 1920s.
Although all locomotives are always stationed in Oberwiesenthal, the steam locomotives are coaled in Cranzahl. The existing crane was replaced by a conveyor belt in the 1980s.
The points and signals to the station Cranzahl be a mechanical interlocking of the type Jüdel provided 11,000. The exit signals are designed as shape signals , the entry signals as light signals according to the HI signal system , which are set using levers.
Web links
- Pictures of the station on www.sachsenschiene.net
Footnotes
- ↑ a b Reiner Scheffler: Schmalspur-Heizhäuser in Sachsen , Verlag Kenning, Nordhorn 1996, ISBN 3-927587-48-6 , p. 62
- ↑ Andreas W. Petrak: Fichtelbergbahn - on a narrow track from Cranzahl to Oberwiesenthal health resort . Bildverlag Böttger, Witzschdorf 2006, ISBN 3-9808250-0-0 , p. 23 ff.
- ↑ According to Reiner Scheffler: Schmalspur-Heizhäuser in Sachsen , Verlag Kenning, Nordhorn 1996, ISBN 3-927587-48-6 , p. 62, the workshop extension was built in the 1910s
- ↑ Holger Kötting: List of German signal boxes on stellwerke.de, from October 26, 2015, accessed on July 22, 2017.