Falkenstein (Vogtl) station
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_Empfangsgeb%C3%A4ude_(2016).jpg) Falkenstein (Vogtl) station, reception building (2016)
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Through station (1865–1875) Separation station (since 1875) |
| Design | Inselbahnhof (1875–1912) |
| Platform tracks | 2 |
| abbreviation | DFA |
| IBNR | 8010106 |
| Price range | 6th |
| opening | 1865 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Falkenstein__Vogtl_ |
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| City / municipality | Falkenstein / Vogtl. |
| country | Saxony |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 28 '44 " N , 12 ° 21' 37" E |
| BECAUSE | 551 m |
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| Railway stations and stops in Saxony | |
The Falkenstein (Vogtl) station (until May 31, 1924 only Falkenstein station ) is a local rail junction in Falkenstein / Vogtl. in Saxony . The three Falkenstein – Muldenberg , Herlasgrün – Oelsnitz and Zwickau – Falkenstein railway lines are still in operation today, except for the Falkenstein – Oelsnitz section.
history
At the opening of herlasgrün-oelsnitz railway of Voigtländischen State Railways 1865 in Falkenstein was only a small crossing station - similar created as the stations Lengenfeld (later renamed calibration) and faithful - with four running lines, two platforms and freight shed. The station building was a type building and identical to those of Lengenfeld and Treuen. On an area of 467 m², two two-and-a-half-story pavilions were connected by a one-story intermediate building. Because of the established water station, the station already had a certain operational importance.
With the opening of the Zwickau – Falkenstein railway by the Zwickau-Lengenfeld-Falkensteiner Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (ZLF), Falkenstein became an island station in 1875 , as the ZLF built its station facilities south (and thus on the other side) of the existing station. The station building was used by the private railway company for a fee.
At the beginning of the 1880s, some track systems were removed in connection with the downgrading of the Herlasgrün – Falkenstein section to the branch line in Falkenstein. About 10 years later, around 1890, over 2 km of track and 12 points were newly installed, since the Falkenstein – Muldenberg railway was opened in 1892 . The station was expanded further in the 1890s. The freight transport facilities were concentrated on the southern side of the station and the ZLF freight shed there was expanded, the original state rail freight shed was demolished. The impregnation facility with its own siding, which had existed since 1871 and soaked wooden sleepers with zinc chloride lye to make them more durable, was moved from the north to the south side of the station around 1900.
As the volume of traffic continued to rise - around 110,000 t of goods were handled in 1899, it was almost 180,000 t in 1913, and during the same period the number of passengers handled increased from around 270,000 to around 445,000 - the expansions were soon no longer sufficient, either the old station building had become too small. Therefore, in 1905 a complete renovation of the station was approved for about 1.02 million marks, the actual construction work began in 1908. To remove the level crossing with Dorfstädter Strasse, the tracks were raised by 3 m and a bridge was built. The freight transport facilities were expanded again and the newly built station building was inaugurated in 1912. The five-fold structure built from 1910 to 1912 extended over an area of 1040 m². The renovation work was completed in 1913, and the second island platform and the 55 m long passenger tunnel were finally opened.
During the First World War , the station was last slightly expanded with regard to the construction of the Theuma – Plauen (Vogtl) –Chrieschwitz section of the Lottengrün – Plauen line .
After 1918, only a few renovations were carried out, only a few social buildings were still built after 1949. The local BHG built a storage building at the freight yard , and the Falkenstein railway maintenance office , which existed from 1876 to 1993, also built a few sheds.
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Passenger traffic on the section Falkenstein Lottengrün continue to Plauen Chrieschwitz (the portion Lottengrün-Oelsnitz had been shut down in 1951) was set in 1970, carried freight until 1,972th
In 1988 a container terminal was built , but with the political and economic changes of 1989/90, freight traffic collapsed. In 1994/95 the goods traffic from Falkenstein was discontinued, although Falkenstein was still served in goods traffic until 2001, most recently the traffic volume was limited to a few wagons per week.
At the end of the 1990s, the track systems were significantly reduced. Platform 3/4 was closed and the remaining two entrances to the passenger tunnel were equipped with elevators. Today there are only three continuous tracks left in the station, all remaining tracks end bluntly. The listed entrance building is mostly empty today.
Falkenstein depot
Initially only a water station, Falkenstein only received a boiler house with a 10 m turntable near the first Falkensteiner reception building in 1875 with the opening of the line from Zwickau by the ZLF . With the opening of the line to Muldenberg , the existing facilities, which had been taken over by the state railway after the nationalization of the ZLF, were no longer sufficient. Since it was not possible to expand the centrally located facilities, a five-person roundhouse with a 10 m turntable was built north of the track system. However, since the storage facilities were no longer sufficient before 1900, the boiler house was expanded in the 1910s to include ten tracks with 12 stands. The additional space required after the opening of the Lottengrün – Plauen railway line was also included. From October 1913, a larger turntable was available with a 17 m turntable, an unusual length for turntables.
Since the demand for water also increased, the previous water station was replaced in 1926 by a water tower with a capacity of 100 m³.
With the onset of uranium ore mining in the Ore Mountains, the transport services in Vogtland increased, a consequence of which was the establishment of the Falkenstein depot as an independent agency in 1948 or on March 1, 1949, plus a branch in Klingenthal, where, in addition to standard-gauge locomotives, also the vehicles of the Klingenthal narrow-gauge railway –Sachsenberg-Georgenthal were subordinated to the Falkenstein depot .
At the end of the 1960s, the first tasks were transferred to other departments. From then on, vehicle maintenance was taken over by the Zwickau and Reichenbach depots, after the change in traction and the cessation of traffic on the narrow-gauge railway in 1964, the Klingenthal locomotive operation center was closed.
In 1966 or in July 1970, the Falkenstein depot was dissolved as an independent agency and placed under the Reichenbach depot. In the same year the turntable was enlarged again to over 18 m.
In the 1980s the workforce was gradually reduced, including the closure of the workshop. In the 1990s, the locomotive operations center was then completely closed. On June 22, 1998, the roof of the locomotive shed was covered by a storm, and the empty building has been falling into disrepair ever since. The tracks of the former Bw site are no longer used today, only the Vogtlandbahn still operates a gas station on the two remaining sidings.
The ruin of the depot and the water tower were demolished in 2015 to make way for a street.
Locomotive use
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Initially, only locomotives from the Royal Saxon State Railways or the identical ZLF vehicles were used.
The initially existing types IIIb and VII were supplemented by the type V T (series 89.2 and 89.82) by 1900 .
After the First World War, the 75.5 and 94.19-21 series were stationed in Falkenstein . The 89.2 and 89.82 series continued to be used in shunting services. Vehicles of the 38.2–3 and 58.10–21 series remained loners because such machines could not be turned on the turntable. Even after World War II, the locomotive stock of the state railway series 75.5 and 94.19-21 was coined, supplemented by standard locomotives of the class 86 . With locomotives of the 75.1-3 , 84 and 91.19 classes , other loners came to Falkenstein for a short time, but they were soon returned.
The class 75.5, which was taken out of service at the end of the 1960s, was replaced by an 86 series that had been moved from other deployment locations; for a short time, the class 64 also belonged to the Falkenstein depot. In 1966 diesel vehicles were stationed in Falkenstein for the first time with the multiple units of the VT 2.09 series , as the multiple units did not prove themselves on the steeply steep routes, they were withdrawn again in the 1970s. In the second half of the 1960s, the V 60 and V 100 series diesel locomotives came to Falkenstein. The traction change was completed by 1971 - with the exception of one heating locomotive .
literature
- Wilfried Rettig: Zwickau (Sachs) –Falkenstein (Vogtl) - Yesterday and Today the Line ZF , Photo & Verlag Jacobi, Fraureuth 2007, ISBN 978-3-937228-12-9
Web links
- www.sachsenschiene.net Picture of the train station
Footnotes
- ↑ Wilfried Rettig: The railways in Vogtland - Volume 2: secondary and narrow-gauge lines, railway systems, accidents and anecdotes , EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2002, ISBN 3-88255-687-0 , p. 214
- ↑ Wilfried Rettig: The railways in Vogtland - Volume 2: secondary and narrow-gauge lines, railway systems, accidents and anecdotes , EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2002, ISBN 3-88255-687-0 , p. 140
- ↑ a b Tracks in service facilities (as of October 1st, 2012) (PDF; 179 kB)
- ↑ Wilfried Rettig: Zwickau (Sachs) –Falkenstein (Vogtl) - yesterday and today of the route ZF , p. 58
- ↑ a b Wilfried Rettig: Zwickau (Sachs) –Falkenstein (Vogtl) - yesterday and today of the route ZF , p. 147
- ↑ a b Wilfried Rettig: The railways in Vogtland - Volume 2: secondary and narrow-gauge lines, railway systems, accidents and anecdotes , EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2002, ISBN 3-88255-687-0 , p. 213
- ↑ a b Wilfried Rettig: Zwickau (Sachs) –Falkenstein (Vogtl) - yesterday and today of the route ZF , p. 148
- ↑ Wilfried Rettig: Zwickau (Sachs) –Falkenstein (Vogtl) - yesterday and today of the route ZF , p. 151
- ↑ Mostly a class 86 locomotive