Eschwege West station

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Eschwege West
Passenger station Eschwege West (2007)
Passenger station Eschwege West (2007)
Data
Location in the network Crossing station
Design Through station
Platform tracks 4th
abbreviation FEGW
IBNR 8001895
opening October 30, 1875
location
City / municipality Eschwege
country Hesse
Country Germany
Coordinates 51 ° 11 '34 "  N , 9 ° 59' 47"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 11 '34 "  N , 9 ° 59' 47"  E
Railway lines
Railway stations in Hessen
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The Eschwege West Bahnhof Since 2009 an operating station and was formerly a railway station in passenger traffic at the Bebra-Göttingen railway .

history

Eschwege West station was opened as Niederhone station on October 31, 1875, together with the southern section of the Göttingen – Bebra line and the branch line to Eschwege that started from here . A year later, the line coming from Bebra to Friedland was extended, from where there was already a connection to Göttingen . On May 15, 1879, the section of the Kanonenbahn from Niederhone station to Treysa went into operation, making the station a junction station . In 1880 the section of the cannon railway east of Eschwege station was opened. In 1936 the station was given its current name.

In terms of passenger traffic , the Eschwege West station was of particular importance to the city of Eschwege because there was a connection to long-distance traffic on the north-south route . In some cases, shuttle trains ran between Eschwege station and Eschwege West station in order to secure appropriate connections . In contrast, Eschwege West was of little importance in freight transport . On June 1, 1985, passenger traffic to the Eschwege station was discontinued, and freight traffic on December 15, 2002. In 1991 the cannon railway in the direction of Malsfeld was shut down .

After the passenger traffic to the Eschwege station had been discontinued, Eschwege West was the only rail connection that the city of Eschwege had remained in passenger traffic. However, it was about four kilometers from the city center and was therefore extremely unattractive as a transport link at a time when most road users already own a motor vehicle . The HLB basis AG therefore bought the railway infrastructure of Eschwege West up to the station Eschwege from the DB Netz AG , the route built up again, built from there a new connecting curve to the north, the trips to Göttingen without a new change of direction allowed, electrified the route and put it into operation on December 12, 2009. This eliminated the function of Eschwege West as a passenger stop for Eschwege.

Investments

The station was designed as a wedge station . To the west of the reception building was the Göttingen – Bebra railway with four platform tracks on two island platforms and to the east the Leinefelde – Treysa railway with two platform tracks. There was no track connection north of the reception building. On the eastern side there were shunting tracks with a drainage mountain , today there is only one electrified through track without a platform edge . The local goods facility with goods shed was on the west side. The old station building was demolished in 1970 after it was replaced in 1969 by a single-storey functional building erected to the south. There used to be four signal boxes that have been demolished, but there is a dispatcher signal box built in 1972 . The reception building was demolished in November 2015.

Monument protection

Some buildings in the area of ​​the Eschwege West train station are cultural monuments according to the Hessian Monument Protection Act : a former roundhouse from 1880, a railway settlement (also from 1880) and a water tower from 1885.

Depot

In the south of the station there had been a depot since 1875 , which had a 16-person roundhouse from 1875 with a 16-m turntable and a five-unit shed built in 1943/1944 with a 23-m turntable, which was demolished in February 2016. The depot was closed in 1965. The 16-person shed is still unused with walled-in gates; both turntables were removed around 1990. The water tower is also still there. In the summer of 2017, the railway maintenance office, the building of the catenary column and the locomotive shed from 1875 were sold.

Today's operation

The Eschwege West station is no longer affected by the new, northern entrance curve to the route to Eschwege. The southern entrance curve still leads through the station, but due to its remote location from the settlement, it was abandoned as a passenger stop when direct traffic to the city of Eschwege was resumed in December 2009. It is therefore exclusively a depot today.

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Notes / individual evidence

  1. ↑ This should not be confused with the Eschwege-Niederhone stop, which was opened elsewhere in 2009 .
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Fiegenbaum and Wolfgang Klee: Farewell to the rail. Disused railway lines for passenger traffic in Germany 1980–1990 . Stuttgart 1997. ISBN 3-613-71073-0 , p. 144
  3. ↑ http://www.werra-meissner-bahnen.de/inhalt/eisenbahnen/3936.html Pictures of the new connecting curve
  4. ↑ mme: Back to Eschwege . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International 5/2010, p. 213
  5. ↑ http://www.werra-meissner-bahnen.de/inhalt/eisenbahnen/3600-04.html#abriss Pictures of the demolished reception building
  6. ↑ Schomann, p. 525 f.
  7. ↑ http://www.werra-meissner-bahnen.de/inhalt/eisenbahnen/3600-6710-abriss-des-neueren-lokschuppen.html Pictures of the demolition of the newer engine shed