Meuselwitz train station
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 Meuselwitz train station
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| Design | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 2 |
| abbreviation | LMSW |
| opening | June 19, 1872 |
| Conveyance | December 14, 2002 |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Meuselwitz |
| country | Thuringia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 2 '23 " N , 12 ° 17' 35" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 183 m |
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| Railway stations in Thuringia | |
The Meuselwitz Station is a former railway - transportation hub in today Altenburger Land in Thuringia . The station was connected to four railway lines . The train service at the station has been suspended since 2002. Today the station is only used for the Meuselwitz – Haselbach – Regis-Breitingen coal railway in museum operation.
Station names
Meuselwitz station had the following names:
- until 1929: Meuselwitz
- until 1953: Meuselwitz (Thür)
- since 1953: Meuselwitz
history
Meuselwitz station was opened on June 19, 1872 together with the Zeitz – Altenburg line. On September 7, 1874 the railway line to Leipzig (Meuselwitz – Gaschwitz) and on October 17, 1887 the Meuselwitz – Ronneburg railway line was opened. Since June 1942, the Meuselwitz – Haselbach – Regis-Breitingen coal railway ran through the northern Meuselwitz-Altenburg lignite district .
Due to the lignite mining, the Meuselwitz – Großröda section of the Meuselwitz – Ronneburg railway was closed in 1965. When the Zwenkau and Groitzscher Dreieck opencast mines opened up, the railway line to Leipzig was interrupted and removed between Lucka and Groitzsch in the 1970s . After that, the route to Lucka was operated in freight traffic until May 23, 1993.
At the beginning of 2004 the passenger traffic between Altenburg and Zeitz was stopped. On the Zeitz ( Profen ) –Meuselwitz section, coal trains ran until 2013 to supply the power station in Mumsdorf and a few trains to the Kriebitzsch gravel recycling plant .
The Altenburg – Meuselwitz line is used as the station track of the Altenburg station, the Meuselwitz – Tröglitz line as the station track of the Tröglitz station in freight traffic.
The Meuselwitz – Haselbach – Regis-Breitingen coal railway is the last railway line in Meuselwitz on which passenger traffic takes place. It is used in museum operations. Meuselwitz station was expanded to become a cultural station. The stately reception building and a locomotive shed used by the coal railway have been preserved to this day. The part of the station where the trains on the Gaschwitz – Meuselwitz railway stopped via Groitzsch was re-gauged to a gauge of 900 mm by the coal railway in 2009.
Investments
The station is south of the town, the station building north of the Zeitz – Altenburg line. The line from Gaschwitz ended east of the reception building, there were several butt tracks. Between the routes to Gaschwitz and Altenburg there was a depot with a roundhouse. There were numerous sidings in the south of the station for freight traffic. Today they are used by Waggonbau Altenburg for parking.
Buildings
The reception building from 1872 was expanded several times at the turn of the 20th century. It has been preserved to this day, but is in decline. Other high-rise buildings include goods sheds, farm buildings, residential buildings, a roundhouse with a turntable, a coal shed and several signal boxes. At times the station had more than 30 tracks.
Signal boxes
The following signal boxes were built in Meuselwitz:
| designation | function | Type | Decommissioning |
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| B3 | Fdl | mech | January 2013 |
| W1 | Ww | mech | January 2013 |
| W2 | Ww | mech | January 2013 |
photos
Meuselwitz train station, street side
Meuselwitz cultural station
Meuselwitz station, platform
Meuselwitz station, tracks
Meuselwitz station, tracks
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Mumsdorf power plant at www.ostkohle.de
- ↑ The Kulturbahnhof Meuselwitz on the Altenburg tourism site ( Memento of the original from September 9, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ The Meuselwitz train station on www.sachsenschiene.net
- ↑ www.ferkeltaxe.de
- ↑ signal box list. Entries M. In: stellwerke.de. Retrieved September 21, 2017 .
