Vejprty railway station
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 Vejprty Railway Station (2003)
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| Operating point type | Railway station (simplified operational management D3) |
| Platform tracks | 5 |
| opening | May 12, 1872 |
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| City / municipality | Vejprty |
| Okres | Chomutov district |
| region | Ústecký kraj |
| Country | Czech Republic |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 30 '3 " N , 13 ° 2' 3" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 712.61 m |
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| List of train stations in the Czech Republic | |
The station Vejprty (until 1945 German: Weipert Station ) is an operating agency of the railroad Chomutov-Vejprty and Vejprty-Annaberg-Buchholz railway . It is located on the territory of the city of Vejprty in the Czech Republic and has been a border station to Saxony in Germany since it opened in 1872 .
Geographical location
Vejprty station is located at an altitude of 712.61 meters in the north of the town of Vejprty on the ridge of the Middle Ore Mountains not far from the Pöhlbach (Czech: Polava ), which forms the border with Saxony . This is reached north of the station after half a kilometer with the border bridge over the Pöhlbach.
Names
- until 1919: Weipert
- 1919 to 1938: Vejprty / Weipert
- 1938 to 1945: Weipert
- since 1945: Vejprty
history
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Weipert station was put into operation on May 12, 1872. From the beginning it was designed as a border station between Saxony and Bohemia. On August 1, 1872, the Komotau – Weipert line of the Buschtěhrad Railway was opened, followed two days later on August 3, 1872 by the Weipert-Annaberg and Bf cross-border line . The Weipert – Land border section owned by the Buschtěhrad Railway was operated on a lease basis by the Royal Saxon State Railways (K. Sächs. Sts. EB). Despite the continuation of the railway across the border, there was no continuous passenger train service between Chemnitz and Komotau until 1945 . All trains from Chemnitz ended at the Weipert border station, where they had to switch to the Buschtěhrad Railway and later the Czechoslovak State Railways . There were continuous trains in freight traffic, and locomotives were changed in Weipert.
As a border station, Weipert station had a stately reception building with a Saxon and a Bohemian part, goods sheds, farm buildings, locomotive sheds, two turntables and extensive track systems. The railway maintenance office was dissolved again in 1924. The Saxon part of the locomotive handling facilities at the Weipert border station, which belongs to the Deutsche Reichsbahn , with a 19.5 m long turntable, was subordinate to the Buchholz railway works (today Annaberg-Buchholz Süd station ) until 1945 .
Around 1912 there were well-advanced plans to extend the narrow-gauge railway Wolkenstein – Jöhstadt across the Saxon-Bohemian border to Weipert station. This project envisaged a train station each in Pleil and in the Bohemian group of houses Weißer Hirsch (opposite the Saxon group of houses Weißer Hirsch ) on the Conduppelbach . The planned narrow-gauge railway line would have been integrated into Weipert train station from the north via an arch over the Weipert-Grund district . Because of the First World War and the political changes after the war, the project did not get beyond a design plan.
With the annexation of the Sudetenland to the German Reich on October 1, 1938, the Weipert station was subordinated to the Reichsbahndirektion Dresden of the Deutsche Reichsbahn . When the state border no longer existed, it also lost its status as a border station.
After the end of the Second World War in 1945, the station came back to the ČSD , which also took over the former part of the Reichsbahn. The German station name Weipert has now been replaced by the Czech version Vejprty . Due to the completely changed political situation, no more cross-border traffic took place after 1945. Between the border station Vejprty and the Bärenstein (Kr Annaberg) station in Saxony , the track connection was retained for military reasons. Except for a few business trips - e.g. for snow clearing operations - there was no longer any train service. While the Czech locomotives now used the larger turntable of the former Reichsbahnteil, the German Wendeloks had to leave the now turning station Bärenstein (Kr Annaberg) in the direction of Chemnitz (since 1953 Karl-Marx-Stadt) with the tender ahead and backwards to the station Annaberg- Drive Buchholz Süd . In the 1950s, on the route to Chomutov, steam-powered passenger trains were switched to diesel multiple units. Now only the freight tractors came into the depot to turn. In 1967 the last steam train was stopped. At the beginning of the 1970s, the entire Bohemian locomotive area including the small turntable was demolished. The larger turntable of the former treatment facilities of the Reichsbahn was only rarely used during this time. B. to turn the vehicles of the railway maintenance office or snow plows or snow blowers.
With the political upheavals in the GDR and Czechoslovakia in 1989 and 1990, both sides wanted to renew the old traditional transport links. On August 1, 1993, cross-border passenger traffic with four pairs of trains on the Chemnitz – Vejprty route was resumed. After the construction of the border bridge in 1997, this route is also approved for freight traffic. The once extensive facilities of the station have been in a progressive decline since the end of cross-border traffic after 1945. The large station building was largely demolished in spring 2012. Only the northern wing, formerly used by the Saxon officials, has survived. It was renovated in 2008. In 2012, the Saxon water station also fell victim to the demolition. The large (Saxon) turntable, which had not been usable since the winter of 2006 after the cover collapsed due to excessive snow masses, was demolished in February 2018.
Due to the low occupancy rate, since December 9, 2007, there has only been tourist-oriented traffic on the Czech side with two pairs of trains on the weekends, including a continuous connection Leipzig-Chemnitz-Chomutov of the Ore Mountain Railway . With the timetable change on December 14, 2014, travel between Vejprty and Cranzahl was completely discontinued, while the tourist-oriented train connections between Chemnitz and Chomutov were discontinued. Between Chomutov and Vejprty, operations were limited to the summer months (May to September). Since May 2016, passenger trains have been running again between Vejprty and Cranzahl on the weekends of the summer months.
photos
Rest of the reception building with the special train of the Erzgebirgsbahn (2017)
Tracks towards Chomutov (2017)
Tracks towards Annaberg-Buchholz (2017)
České dráhy train in Vejprty station (2018)
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Web links
- Vejprty train station on www.sachsenschiene.net
- Vejprty station on the Erzgebirgsbahner website
- Vejprty train station on www.weiperter-vorfahren.de