Pronsfeld station
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| Location in the network | Separation station | ||
| Platform tracks | 4th | ||
| abbreviation | SPD | ||
| opening | October 1, 1886 | ||
| Conveyance | May 28, 1972 (passenger traffic) December 12, 1994 (freight traffic) |
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| City / municipality | Pronsfeld | ||
| country | Rhineland-Palatinate | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
| Coordinates | 50 ° 9 '53 " N , 6 ° 20' 16" E | ||
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| Railway stations in Rhineland-Palatinate | |||
The Pronsfeld station was the station of the Pronsfeld community in Rhineland-Palatinate .
history
With the opening of the Prüm (Eifel) - Bleialf section on October 1, 1886, Pronsfeld received a rail connection to Gerolstein, and two years later to Sankt Vith . On July 6, 1907, the through station became a separation station with the opening of the Pronsfeld – Neuerburg and Pronsfeld – Waxweiler lines . The Reichsbahn therefore employed up to 50 workers and civil servants.
The double-track line to Sankt Vith and the single-track lines to Waxweiler and Neuerburg, as well as their strategic military importance, made it necessary to equip them with increasingly complex railway facilities. Therefore, the station had in 1943
- eight double cross turnouts (DKW),
- two platforms on tracks 1, 3, 5 and 6 with an underpass to the station building and an air raid shelter,
- a 530 meter long loading ramp , a head ramp and a weighbridge ,
- two signal boxes and a shed for small locomotives,
- Overnight barracks, company kitchen and business cellar,
- Workshop, station depot and post office.
In World War II bridges were blown up and the routes considerably damaged. On October 17, 1949, traffic was resumed on all routes.
On January 1, 1966, passenger traffic on the Pronsfeld – Ihr section of the Westeifelbahn and on the Pronsfeld – Waxweiler line was discontinued, and passenger traffic on the Enz Valley Railway followed on June 1, 1969. The remaining passenger traffic to Prüm (Eifel) was closed on May 28th Discontinued in 1972. With the cessation of freight traffic to Bleialf and Waxweiler in May 1987, Pronsfeld became a through station again. With the cessation of goods traffic to Neuerburg on May 18, 1989, the station became the terminus . On June 11, 2001, freight traffic on the remaining section of the West Eifel Railway from Gerolstein to Pronsfeld was stopped.
A Köf II shunting locomotive built by Deutz AG was installed at the former level crossing on Habscheider Strasse in 2006 . The Köf was used by DB from 1959 to 1984 and then by a metal recycling company in Bremen-Hemelingen . It was restored by volunteers, returned to its original DB condition, and in 2007, together with a flat freight car, it was the first part of the small open-air railway museum.