Forst station (Lausitz)
Forest (Lausitz) Baršć (Łužyca) |
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Station building with tracks (2016)
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Location in the network |
Intermediate station formerly a separation station |
Design | Through station |
Platform tracks | 5 |
abbreviation | BFO |
IBNR | 8010111 |
Price range | 6th |
opening | 1872 |
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City / municipality | Forst (Lausitz) |
country | Brandenburg |
Country | Germany |
Coordinates | 51 ° 44 '20 " N , 14 ° 38' 15" E |
Height ( SO ) | 78 m |
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Railway stations in Brandenburg |
The Forst (Lausitz) station is the station of the city of Forst (Lausitz) in the district of Spree-Neisse . It is a border station to Poland . The entire station complex is a listed building . Eurocity trains stopped here until December 2014. Until 1995 three railway lines were bundled in Forst. Today it is only served by two regional railway lines for passenger transport (see list of railway lines in Brandenburg and Berlin )
The train station is about one kilometer south of Forster city center. The border with Poland is about one and a half kilometers away. Adjacent streets are Sorauer Strasse and Berliner Strasse . The closest operating point to the west is the Klinge train station, around eight kilometers away on the Cottbus route . To the east it is Zasieki in Poland on the route to Żary and on to Łódź . Forst is part of the Berlin-Brandenburg transport association .
history
In the course of its history, the name of the Forst railway station has changed several times. The following names existed: Forst, Forst (Laus), Forst (Lausitz), Forst (Niederlausitz) and again Forst (Lausitz). The latter designation is also documented for October 1914.
In July 2011, work began on converting the station to new signal box technology. Shortly afterwards, the renovation of further tracks and points was completed. The cost of the entire work was around 6.5 million euros, which was financed by the federal government. For about six weeks, from October 23 to December 5, 2011, Forst could not be served due to the changeover. Replacement buses have been set up between Cottbus and Forst . The then still operated EC line 99 and freight trains had to be diverted. The old signal box on Berliner Straße became the service center for the new electronic signal box (ESTW). Since December 5, 2011 at 3:30 a.m., he has been controlling the train and shunting operations. Since then, four level crossings from the station to the border have been controlled by Forst station. The other four old signal boxes were dismantled. A barrier-free to allow access to trains, elevated to the platforms.
In November 2014 the reception building was auctioned for € 15,000. Some parts of the Forster population wanted the city to buy the train station. However, this was not implemented and a private investor bought it.
Investments
The complete station complex consists of a reception building with ancillary buildings, platform roofs, signal box, water tower, water cranes, quarter round shed, administration building and accommodation building. Most of the buildings were built as brick cladding in the 1880s.
Platforms and tracks
Today Forst station has a total of five platform tracks, of which three have been available for passenger traffic since the renovation in 2011. There is a side platform directly at the reception building , to the south of which there are two roofed central platforms . The central platforms are reached via an underpass. The trains of the RB 46, which come from Cottbus, end in Forst and then return to Cottbus, stop at tracks 1 and 2.
Signal boxes
Up to December 2011 there were a total of five signal boxes. A dispatcher interlocking (B4) and four guard interlockings (W1, W2, W3 and W5).
Three of the five former signal boxes in the station are under monument protection. These are W1, W3 and B4. Two of them were built in 1904 (W1 and W3). These are two-story buildings with a hip roof made of red and yellow tiles. One is located around 100 m southwest of the station (W1), the other south of the platforms (W3). The third (B4) was built before 1914 and is located east of the south platform. It is two-story and also consists of red and yellow tiles, but has a gable roof .
Reception building
The station building was built around 1875. In 1889 and 1892 it was rebuilt and expanded. Further extensions followed in 1905 and 1913. The two-story building with a hipped roof is made of red and yellow bricks . There is a platform roofing right next to the station building, which, like the roofing on the platforms, is a listed building. They were built around 1889. Further extensions followed in 1895 and 1920/1929.
Other plants
In addition to the building, there are other railway systems in Forst. This includes a toilet block with outbuildings. The single-storey house with a hipped roof, which is also made of red and yellow bricks, was built in 1913.
In addition, there is an octagonal water tower made of wood and red bricks in Forster train station in 1894 . In 2014 the dilapidated wooden paneling of the water tower was removed.
This also included a cast iron water crane from around 1895.
The station also has a locomotive shed , which is no longer connected to the track. The single-storey building made of red bricks dates from 1894.
A two-story administration building is located southwest of the locomotive shed. Building materials were red and yellow bricks. It was built around 1894. There is also another single-storey accommodation building northwest of the engine shed. The building with a gable roof , built around 1895, is made entirely of red bricks.
Connection
line | course | Tact |
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RB 46 | Cottbus - Klinge - Forst (Lausitz) | 60 min |
RB 93 | Forest (Lausitz) - Tuplice - Lipinki Łużyckie - Żary | two pairs of trains a day |
D25 ( KD ) | Wrocław Główny - Legnica - Żagań - Żary - Forst (Lausitz) | two pairs of trains on weekends + holidays |
Culture train | Berlin Lichtenberg - Berlin Ostkreuz - Cottbus - Forst (Lausitz) - Żary - Żagań - Legnica - Wrocław Główny | a pair of trains Sat / Sun |
Until the timetable change in December 2014, the Eurocity “Wawel” (one pair of trains a day) from Hamburg via Berlin to Wroclaw (previously to Krakow) served Forst station.
For bus traffic, Forst station is served by lines 850, 851, 853, 854, 855, 858 and 860.
Web links
- Entry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg
- Tracks in service facilities (BFO) , DB Netz AG (PDF)
Individual evidence
- ↑ IBNR directory on michaeldittrich.de, accessed on March 5, 2015
- ↑ Station price list ( memento of February 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) on deutschebahn.com, accessed on March 5, 2015
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Entry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg at gis-bldam-brandenburg.de, accessed on March 21, 2015
- ↑ Traffic station FG. In: sachsenschiene.de. Retrieved April 15, 2017 .
- ↑ Article about construction work at Forst station on bahnaktuell.de, accessed on March 6, 2015
- ↑ "As expensive as a VW Polo" on rbb-online.de, accessed on March 5, 2015
- ↑ Forst (Lausitz) railway station facility ( memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) on landkreis-spree-neiße.de, accessed on March 5, 2015
- ↑ Signal box list entries F. In: stellwerke.de. Retrieved April 15, 2017 .
- ↑ IC / EC line network 2014 at bahnstatistik.de, accessed on March 6, 2015
- ↑ IC / EC line network 2015 ( memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) on bahn.de, accessed on March 6, 2015