Töppeln station
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| Data | |
| Operating point type | Breakpoint |
| abbreviation | UTP formerly Tp |
| IBNR | 8013129 |
| Price range | 7th |
| opening | 1876 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Pounding |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Power village |
| Place / district | Pottery |
| country | Thuringia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 53 '26 " N , 12 ° 0' 22" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 218.09 m above sea level NN |
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The Töppeln station is a stopping point between the Hermsdorf-Klosterlausnitz - Kraftsdorf stations and the Gera main station on the Weimar – Gera railway line (also known as the Central Germany connection or “ Holzlandbahn ”).
history
The Weimar-Geraer Bahn opened a stop in Töppeln as early as 1876.
The station building was greatly expanded in 1890; In the late summer of 1893 a 101 meter long track for wagonload traffic followed , which went into regular operation on October 1, 1893. An important shipment was the wood from the nearby sawmills. Almost at the same time, the Töppeln cardboard factory opened its production, which also received the required raw materials by rail.
In 1905 a crossing track was set up. After the end of the Second World War , the second track and a platform track in Töppeln were expanded. Since 1953, the cardboard factory was still served as a freight customer. In the following years the loading track was shortened and finally demolished after the cessation of freight traffic in 1959. After the second platform track was reinstalled, the station served again as a crossing station until the second track was rebuilt between the Kraftsdorf and Töppeln stations .
In the station area of the eastern exit, the route crosses the Erlbach by means of a 15 meter high dam and a bridge . At noon on August 10, 1981, the dam was partially and the bridge completely torn away by a severe storm . A temporary bridge was erected within 10 days , which ensured train traffic until the end of 1984.
In the years 1984/1985 the second track in the direction of Gera was rebuilt. At the same time, the station's mechanical signal box was replaced by a GS II DR track diagram signal box .
During the time of the Reichsbahn , Töppeln was run as an unoccupied dependent stopping point.
From 2001 the load-bearing capacity of the bridge in the eastern exit of the station was limited. Until a replacement bridge was built, a maximum speed of 10 km / h was required in this area.
Investments
Reception building
The two-storey entrance building, made of bricks , consists of a gable-end part of the building, to which an eaves-mounted building connects to the west . Upstream of the main platform there is a one-story extension with a flat roof and a shelter, to the east there is another one-story extension with a hipped roof and a straight dormer . To the west of the reception building is a single-storey, eaves half-timbered building with a gable roof , which was used for freight traffic.
Platforms and tracks
The platform is 110 meters long and 55 centimeters high.
traffic
The Töppeln station is served every two hours by regional transport on RB line 21 ( Weimar - Jena West - Jena-Göschwitz - Töppeln - Gera ). This regional traffic has been operated by the Erfurt Railway since the timetable change in June 2012 and has been renamed from RB21 to EB21.
literature
- Werner Drescher: The Weimar-Geraer Bahn - From the private railway to part of the Central-Germany connection . EK-Verlag, Freiburg / Brsg. 2001. ISBN 3-88255-451-7
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. Track plan from 1953 in: Drescher: Die Weimar-Geraer Bahn, p. 89
- ↑ http://www.eisenbahnwelt.com/BildArchiv/19811218/BR_UTP_01.html (link not available)
- ↑ Entry on Stellwerke.de
- ^ Drescher: The Weimar-Geraer Bahn, p. 91
- ↑ Platform information on the Töppeln stop ( memento from April 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on April 8, 2016