Güterglück train station
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 Lower platforms with reception building, freight elevator to the upper platform and abutment for the overpass of the upper route.
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| Location in the network | Crossing station |
| Design | Tower station |
| Platform tracks | 2, formerly 4 |
| abbreviation | LGK |
| IBNR | 8010154 |
| opening | 1874 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Good luck |
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| City / municipality | Zerbst |
| Place / district | Good luck |
| country | Saxony-Anhalt |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 59 ′ 36 " N , 11 ° 59 ′ 11" E |
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| Railway stations in Saxony-Anhalt | |
The Güterglück station was crossing station of routes Biederitz-Trebnitz (part of the connection Magdeburg-Dessau) and Berlin-Blankenheim (part of the Cannons Railway ). The station is built as a tower station. After the Kanonenbahn was closed, Güterglück is only a stop for the regional trains from Magdeburg and Dessau. The freight transport facilities are no longer in operation.
location
The train station is in Güterglück , about 800 meters north of the village center. Güterglück is now part of the town of Zerbst in the north of the Anhalt-Bitterfeld district in Saxony-Anhalt . The station is at kilometer 26.9 of the Güterglück section of the Biederitz – Trebnitz railway line, which runs from west-northwest to east-south-east, and at km 111.5 (counted from Berlin-Charlottenburg station ) of the Berlin – Blankenheim line, which runs from east-northeast to west-southwest.
history
On July 1, 1874, the Berlin-Potsdam-Magdeburger Eisenbahngesellschaft (BPME) opened its line from Biederitz near Magdeburg to the border with the Duchy of Anhalt near Trebnitz , where connection to a line built by the Berlin-Anhaltische Eisenbahngesellschaft to Zerbst and on to Dessau was produced. Already at this time there were plans for a route from Berlin to the French border near Metz, which was necessary primarily for military reasons .
This route, known colloquially as the cannon railway, was intended to bypass larger settlements. For this reason, among other things, requests from the city of Zerbst to be served by the new route were refused. A route via Zerbst should have bridged the Saale as well as the Elbe . So a more northerly route was chosen and Güterglück became the crossing point of the two routes. On April 15, 1879, the new section of the Kanonenbahn from Berlin to Blankenheim went into operation for freight traffic, followed a month later by passenger traffic. At the same time as the new line, a northern connecting curve was built, which allowed journeys from Berlin via Belzig in the direction of Magdeburg and the BPME freight station on the line to Biederitz could be reached from Berlin. At the other end of the connecting curve in the direction of Berlin, a small marshalling yard was built .
On February 1, 1923, electrical operation in the lower station began in the direction of Zerbst, followed by the line in the direction of Magdeburg on July 1 of the same year. After the Second World War, the catenary systems and the second track on both lines were dismantled as a reparation payment to the Soviet Union . In 1947/48 a southern connecting curve was built with which direct journeys from Barby towards Güsten became possible. Around 1970, work began in the station to build a new central signal box, with the track layout being partially changed. It was put into operation from October 9th to 11th, 1980 and replaced five mechanical signal boxes in the station and another on the southern connecting curve. Before that, electrical operation in the lower station in the direction of Roßlau and Magdeburg had been resumed on April 15, 1975.
Already in the GDR era it was planned to expand and electrify the Berlin – Blankenheim line as a relief line for several main lines, especially for freight traffic. After German reunification, these plans were initially pursued. In 1993, Berlin was connected to the ICE network and, as an interim solution, the short catenary gap from the Güterglück freight station via Wiesenburg was initially closed. Catenary masts were erected in the area of the upper station in the direction of Barby, and the southern connecting curve has already been partially spanned with catenary.
However, the plans did not materialize. On the contrary, after the ICE traffic was relocated, initially to the direct route from Magdeburg to Berlin and later via the high-speed route from Hanover to Berlin, the cannon line began to decline. In December 2003 both freight traffic from Berlin and from the Seddin marshalling yard via the northern connecting curve in Güterglück in the direction of Magdeburg and passenger traffic from Belzig via Güterglück and Barby to Magdeburg ended. The last train to run until the end of 2004 was an excursion train from Berlin to the Harz Mountains through the upper part of the passenger station on weekends . In April 2004, DB Netz had applied for the closure of the Wiesenburg – Güterglück and Güterglück – Barby sections to the Federal Railway Authority , which was carried out after passenger traffic had ceased. In October 2011, the bridges on the line over the lower tracks were dismantled at Güterglück station.
Investments
Track systems
In the passenger station, the two-track Berlin – Blankenheim line crossed the Biederitz – Trebnitz line, which was also double-tracked until 1945. After 1945, both lines lost their second track, which was rebuilt on the lower line in the 1970s. At the time of the two-track system, the upper part of the passenger station with the platforms was already part of the free route in terms of safety . To the north of the intersection, a connecting curve led from Berlin towards Biederitz. At its eastern end was a marshalling yard consisting of two through tracks, a passing track, two further main tracks and six shunting and exit tracks as well as two mechanical signal boxes.
At the western end of the connecting curve was a freight yard, the former freight yard of the BPME. It consisted of five tracks. The central interlocking, which was opened in 1980, was built in this area; this is a GS II Sp 64 b track diagram interlocking .
The facilities for local freight traffic were located northeast of the passenger station and could be reached from the connecting curve.
Another connecting curve in the south of the station, opened in 1947, enabled journeys from the direction of Barby to Zerbst . In the area of the passenger station at the intersection between the two connecting curves, there were no other tracks apart from the two platform tracks in the upper and lower sections of the station.
Reception building and platforms
The reception building is an L-shaped three-storey building. On the lower route there are two outer platforms that are connected by a tunnel. The south-western lower platform is located directly at the reception building and could be reached from the ground floor. From the first floor of the building there was access to the upper platforms. There was a house platform directly at the reception building, via which an intermediate platform could be reached. Furthermore, there were stairs from the upper house platform to the lower platforms as well as freight elevators, the remains of which have been preserved.
Since the passenger traffic facilities are no longer available, Deutsche Bahn originally wanted to fill the passenger tunnel and take the northern platform out of service at the end of 2017. The construction of a new bridge at the existing traffic station was rejected. Instead, new, more local platforms are to be built, which are at ground level and therefore accessible from the Moritzer Straße level crossing. Since their construction is delayed, a temporary overpass was built at the end of 2018.
The station building is now privately owned and is being renovated.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f Jürgen Krebs: Kanonenbahn Berlin – Sangerhausen. Between Fläming and Mansfelder Land. Wolfgang Herdam Fotoverlag, Gernrode 2004, ISBN 3-933178-09-6 , pp. 61–63.
- ↑ a b c Track plans of Güterglück station from GDR times on sporenplan.nl.
- ↑ Thomas Höfs: Bahn wants to close tunnels soon. In: Volksstimme. July 23, 2017. Retrieved March 28, 2018 .
- ^ Thomas Kirchner: New stop for Güterglück. In: Volksstimme. November 4, 2017. Retrieved March 28, 2018 .
- ↑ Happy Christmas in Güterglück. In: Press release Gemeinhardt Gerüstbau Service GmbH on lok-report.de. December 17, 2018, accessed March 8, 2019 .