Rzepin railway station
| Rzepin | |
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 Rzepin (Reppen) reception building
from 1870 |
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| Data | |
| Location in the network | Crossing station |
| Platform tracks | 6th |
| abbreviation | XPR |
| IBNR | 5100082 |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Rzepin |
| Voivodeship | Lebus |
| Country | Poland |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 20 '59 " N , 14 ° 48' 51" E |
| Railway lines | |
| List of train stations in Poland | |
The Rzepin train station (formerly Reppen ) is located in the town of the same name in the Lubusz Voivodeship in Poland , about 15 to 20 kilometers from the German-Polish border and the city of Frankfurt (Oder) . The station is the intersection of two important main routes.
From 1945 until the Schengen regulations came into force in 2007, the station was a border station for traffic between the GDR or Germany and Poland.
history
The station was built in the middle of the 19th century when the Frankfurt (Oder) –Posen (now Poznań ) railway line was built on the western edge of the city. The first train ran from Berlin - Frankfurt train station to Posen in 1870 with a stopover in Reppen.
In 1874 the line to the Lower Silesian Breslau ( Wrocław ) was put into operation and the following year it was extended to the north located Küstrin ( Kostrzyn ). Reppen station became one of the most important traffic junctions in the eastern Oder foothills .
With the railroad, the city developed into an industrial center, the population increased rapidly and doubled in just a few years. In addition to traditional cloth making , tanneries , shoemakers , steam mills and potato starch production were established .
In 1890 the branch line to Meseritz ( Międzyrzecz ) went into operation.
In 1945 Reppen came to Poland. The station was initially called Rypin Lubuski and from 1947 its current name.
The Rzepin railway junction gained in importance with the Oder-Neisse border management and customs clearance on the main east-west route Berlin - Moscow . The Polish authorities set up a customs office in the station . Later Rzepin also became the main Polish customs office of the Rzepin-Frankfurt (Oder) rail border control point .
A Polish border control station for passenger traffic has been set up at Kunowice station, twelve kilometers west of Rzepin . In Rzepin itself, the border clearance of goods traffic was carried out by the Polish side. In the GDR , the border clearance of passenger traffic took place in the Frankfurt (Oder) train station as well as that of the goods traffic in the Frankfurt (Oder) Oderbrücke train station .
The importance of the north-south route for freight traffic also increased because the port in Szczecin had become one of the most important Polish ports. In addition, the Dolna Odra power plant was built in Gryfino (formerly Greifenhagen ), about 70 kilometers north of Rzepin, and the north-south railway between Szczecin and Wrocław became a coal main line.
1976 began the construction of a bypass route to relieve the railway junction Rzepin. The seven-kilometer line that crosses the line to Frankfurt (Oder) west of Rzepin station and then bypasses the station to the south, went into operation in 1984. Freight traffic in north-south direction can thus pass Rzepin station. Also in 1984 the station was connected to the electrical contact line.
Since then, almost all passenger trains in Rzepin have changed locomotives in an east-west direction. This does not apply to the trains of the Berlin-Warszawa-Express , which since 2009/2010 have generally been hauled by locomotives that are equipped for both the Polish and German electricity systems. Freight trains mostly change their locomotives in Frankfurt (Oder) Oderbrücke station , but sometimes also in Rzepin.
Investments
Rzepin station is an island station . The west-east route Frankfurt (Oder) - Warsaw and the branch line to Międzyrzecz are located on the north side of the station. On the south side are the tracks of the north-south route from and to Zielona Góra , which is led west of the station over a bridge over the tracks of the line towards Frankfurt (Oder). On the western side of the station, both routes are connected by extensive track systems. An additional connecting track east of the reception building enables journeys from the south side of the station to the east.
On the north side of the station is the house platform 1 and the island platform 2 / 2a for trains in an east-west direction. The former platform 3 was demolished as part of the modernization of the station and a second track was created for platform 2 - platform area 2a.
House platform 4 and island platform 5 for trains on the north-south route are located on the south side of the reception building.
Today's passenger traffic
In long-distance passenger transport (as of October 2012), the station is served by four pairs of trains of the Berlin-Warszawa-Express during the day, there is also a daily pair of Eurocity trains between Berlin and Gdynia and a few night trains to Russia. Long-distance traffic on the north-south route is currently limited to a few trains in the summer season. On this route there is a relatively dense but uncompromised regional traffic from Przewozy Regionalne , especially to the Kostrzyn and Zielona Góra stations , partly through to Wrocław Główny or Szczecin Główny . Two pairs of regional trains run across borders every day to Frankfurt (Oder) station and one to Berlin-Lichtenberg .
photos
Rzepin station, signal box.
Rzepin train station, platform 2 / 2a.
Berlin-Warszawa-Express , replacement of the locomotives in the Rzepiner station.
Museum steam locomotive Ty51 in Rzepiner station.
Rzepin train station in winter time.
Old turntable in the Rzepiner train station.
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Web links
- Basic information on Rzepin station , kolej.one.pl
- Map view of the Rzepin railway junction
- Photo of the station building at Rzepin
- Historical postcard view of the Rzepiner Bahnhof (Reppener Bahnhof)
Footnotes
- ^ Ryszard Stankiewicz, Marcin Stiasny: Atlas Linii Kolejowych Polski . Entry for Rzepin in the directory of train stations, stops and operating points with current and former names . Eurosprinter, 2010, ISBN 978-83-926946-8-7 .
- ↑ Obiekt na granicy (absurdu) - Facts - Information - TVN24.pl portal - April 26, 2008. (Polish)