Station stairs
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 Station building stairs
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| Operating point type | railway station |
| Location in the network | Separation station |
| Platform tracks | 3 |
| abbreviation | LSTI |
| Website URL | Selketalbahn.de |
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| country | Saxony-Anhalt |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 39 '39 " N , 10 ° 52' 52" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 488 m |
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| Railway stations in Saxony-Anhalt | |
The Stiege station is a separation station in the network of the Harz Narrow Gauge Railways (HSB) in Stiege (Harz) . There the line 9702 (Stiege - Eisfelder Talmühle ) branches off from the line 9703 ( Quedlinburg - Hasselfelde ), the main branch of the Selketalbahn . The Stiege station is known to railway enthusiasts above all for the turning loop that has existed there since 1984 .
history
The station was opened by the Gernrode-Harzgeroder Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (GHE) with the completion of the section of the section from Güntersberge to Stiege on December 1, 1891. Six months later, on May 1, 1892, the extension from Stiege to Hasselfelde followed. In 1905, on July 15, the GHE opened a branch line from Stiege to Eisfelder Talmühle, thus establishing a connection between the GHE network and the meter-gauge Nordhausen-Wernigeroder Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (NWE) and its Harzquerbahn . Stiege thus received a rail connection in the direction of Nordhausen .
After the Second World War , the Selketalbahn was almost completely dismantled in 1946 as a reparation payment for the Soviet Union . Only the route from Hasselfelde via stairs to Eisfelder Talmühle remained; the Stiege station lost its function as a separation station. The management of operations in Stiege was transferred to the NWE. Together with this, the station was transferred to the Deutsche Reichsbahn in 1949 . Although the reconstruction of the lower section of the Selketalbahn began shortly after dismantling, the terminus was Straßberg.
In the early 1980s, the Deutsche Reichsbahn began planning the reconstruction of the line from Stiege to Straßberg. The main motive was the transport of brown coal to a new heating plant in Silberhütte . In accordance with the motto of the time to save fuel in the brown coal-based energy industry of the GDR , fuel should be transported by rail. However, the clearance profile of the Selketalbahn would only have had to be expanded with disproportionate effort for rolling wagon traffic from Gernrode; reloading the coal into narrow-gauge freight wagons would also have been ineffective. The decision was therefore made to rebuild the route from Stiege to Straßberg for the 150 to 170 tons of coal to be transported every day, as trolleys were already being used on the route from Nordhausen to Hasselfelde. Reconstruction began in September 1982 and the line was finally opened to traffic on November 30, 1983. The Stiege station was given a turning loop so that the coal trains from Nordhausen to Silberhütte could pass through the station without changing direction or locomotive. In order to be able to carry out the operation as efficiently as possible, the station also received fallback switches . The first coal trains drove through Stiege as early as February 1984, but full operation was only started after the completion of the turning loop on June 3, 1984 for passenger traffic and three days later for freight traffic. Since then, two pairs of trains with lignite have been running through the Stiege station every day and have passed the station building twice due to the turning loop. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the heating plant was shut down in 1992 and coal transport was ended. Since then, the Stiege station has only been served by passenger traffic. In 1993, the Harz narrow-gauge railway took over the entire network and with it the Stiege station from the Deutsche Reichsbahn.
Track systems
The station staircase is known primarily for its return loop, an otherwise - apart from a few examples of the tram similarly operated RNV -Strecken in the Rhein-Neckar area or in Voerde on the set in 1963 Kleinbahn Haspe-Breckerfeld - by German narrow gauge railways no longer construction to be found. Since the fundamental renovation in 1983/84, it has had three platform tracks and one loading track. Due to the fallback switches, the platform tracks are normally used in directional operation. Track 1 is used for trains from the direction of Gernrode, track 2 in the direction of Gernrode and Eisfelder Talmühle and track 3 for trains from the direction of Eisfelder Talmühle. Only the switch at the south-eastern end of the station, where the lines to Eisfelder Talmühle and Gernrode branch off, the switch at the branch to the turning loop or to Hasselfelde and the one to the loading track remained locally operated, all other switches are fallback switches. They are provided by the train crew; the Stiege station is unoccupied. Railcars can also go directly to the platform tracks make head . The approximately 400 meter long loop with an arc radius of 60 meters is usually driven in a counter-clockwise direction.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Oberharzinfo: Wendeschleife Stiege: A special attraction for railroad fans , accessed on July 28, 2016
- ↑ a b Freundeskreis Selketalbahn: Timeline of the history of the Selketalbahn , accessed on July 28, 2016