Weischlitz train station
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 Weischlitz station 2013
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Intermediate station (1874/75) Separation station (since 1875) |
| Platform tracks | 3 |
| abbreviation | DWS |
| IBNR | 8010367 |
| Price range | 6th |
| opening | November 1, 1874 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Weischlitz |
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| City / municipality | Weischlitz |
| country | Saxony |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 26 '55 " N , 12 ° 3' 38" E |
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The Weischlitz station is a local railway junction in the municipality Weischlitz in Vogtland in Saxony . The station is on the Plauen – Cheb line , and the line from Gera ends here .
history
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With the Voigtland State Railroad of the Saxon State Railroad , which opened in 1865, numerous villages and towns in the Vogtland were given a rail connection, but the numerous changes in direction caused a long route. In the 1860s, it was planned to shorten it with the Plauen – Oelsnitz connection . Weischlitz was to have a train station on this section of the route, which was approved in 1868.
When the station was being built, the White Elster had to be relocated a little further to the west into a new river bed, as the station planum was being raised on the old area. From the beginning, the station was designed to incorporate the Wolfsgaerth – Weischlitz railway line operated by the private Saxon-Thuringian railway company (Sä.-Th.E.). The Weischlitz station was opened on November 1, 1874 together with the Plauen – Oelsnitz connection. The private railway built its facilities east of the existing facilities of the state railway, the only necessary change to the buildings that had already been constructed was a slight enlargement of the reception building. The Sä.-Th.E. opened their last section of the Plauen unt Bf – Weischlitz station on September 20, 1875. A track connection made it possible to exchange cars. The station became de facto the island station , as the station building was surrounded by tracks except for the access road.
Since the Sä.-Th.E. had taken over with the construction of the railway, it was taken over by the Saxon state in 1876, but this did not change the operational situation. The trains to Wolfsfahrzeugth started and ended in the eastern part of the station.
In the years that followed, minor additions and alterations were made, so another outbuilding was built and an additional loading track with a ramp was built. Major alterations and extensions took place around 1900. In the largest expansion stage there were 42 switches and 21 tracks in the station, 9 of them on the Plauen side and 12 on the Gera side. Four platform tracks were used for passenger traffic, while several loading streets, ramps and a goods shed were available for freight traffic. There was also a private storage shed. An overpass was built for the Dorfstrasse, which previously crossed the tracks at the southern end of the station.
In essence, the track system was preserved until after the Second World War . After the Second World War, with the dismantling of the second track as a reparation payment, the tracks inside the station were also reduced.
In the mid-1970s, all shape signals were replaced by light signals. With the economic repercussions of the fall of 1989/90 , freight traffic almost completely disappeared. Until the end of the 1990s, only three tracks on the east and six on the west were used. Then a platform track on the east side was dismantled in favor of a bus turning loop.
There are a total of eight tracks in the station today, six of them on the west side. There is also the loading street track, the only remaining track for freight traffic.
Weischlitz locomotive station
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Even the Sä.-Th.E. had a two-storey boiler house built in Weischlitz . In 1899, the rectangular building was expanded to include four more stands, which could be reached via a 20 m turntable. For the time being no longer even run as a locomotive station, the Weischlitz locomotive station belonged to the Adorf depot after the Second World War . Later the locomotive station came to the Reichenbach depot . With the change in traction , the locomotive station became superfluous and closed in the 1970s. The listed boiler house is still there today, the turntable was expanded before 1989.
literature
- Wilfried Rettig : Plauen / V – Cheb (Eger) - The PE railway line in the Euregio-Egrensis , Verlag Jacobi, Fraureuth 2007, ISBN 978-3-937228-01-3 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wilfried Rettig: Plauen / V – Cheb (Eger) - The PE railway line in the Euregio-Egrensis , p. 26
- ↑ Wilfried Rettig: Plauen / V-Cheb (Eger) - The PE railway line in the Euregio-Egrensis , p. 26 ff.
- ↑ Tracks in service facilities - as of October 1st, 2012 (PDF; 172 kB)
- ↑ Klaus-Jürgen Kühne: Railway depot of the GDR - 1949-1993 , transpress-Verlag, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-613-71401-4 , p. 15
- ↑ Wilfried Rettig: Plauen / V – Cheb (Eger) - The PE railway line in the Euregio-Egrensis , p. 137