Westig train station

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Westig train station
Station building (technical monument)
Station building (technical monument)
Data
Location in the network Intermediate station
opening June 13, 1885
Conveyance May 28, 1989
location
City / municipality Hemer
Place / district Western
country North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
Coordinates 51 ° 22 '28 "  N , 7 ° 45' 28"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 22 '28 "  N , 7 ° 45' 28"  E
Railway lines
Railway stations in North Rhine-Westphalia
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The station Westig was in Hemeraner district Westig taken on 13 June 1885 in operation. In 1905 a station building was built, which was placed under monument protection in 1984 because of its gothic roof shape, the profiled boards and shingles. The associated signal box has been a listed building since 1989. From 1914 to 1964, the station was the transfer station for the meter-gauge small railway “Eisenbahn Westig – Iserlohn – Altena” of the Westphalian small railway .

At the end of 1975, goods handling at Westig station was discontinued, and in 1989 local rail passenger transport as well .

Railway connection

On April 15, 1916, the station had a large number of tracks. The tracks for freight traffic were east of the passenger station. The transfer station of the Westphalian Kleinbahn (later IKB) was also here, with several standard and narrow-gauge tracks. The narrow-gauge tracks lay south of the state railway tracks and met the narrow-gauge tracks of the Iserlohn – Hemer line to the west at the level crossing, where the state railway crossed at the same level and passed the state railway to the north. Railcars beginning or ending in Westig stopped on the southern route, and on the northern route continuously at the passenger station. The IKB had a standard gauge locomotive stationed for shunting in Westig. A three-track locomotive and wagon shed was maintained in Westig for them and other locomotives. To the southeast of the level crossing of today's Zeppelinstrasse there was a massive two-story station building of the Iserlohner Kleinbahn, which no longer exists.

In addition to the Letmathe – Fröndenberg railway , a connection in the direction of Ihmert branched off in Westig, which was extended to Evingsen in 1917/1918. In 1927 the route led to Altena.

Signal boxes

Former signal box under protection as a technical monument.

From 1912 there were two signal boxes at Westiger Bahnhof , the separate signal box building ( Ww until 1978), which was looked after by a guard and stood at the station exit in the direction of Iserlohn , and the main signal box ( Wf ) in the station building erected around 1905. On December 12, 1978, the signal box in the station building was taken out of service and closed due to the progress of technology and the resulting abundance of signal boxes. The dispatcher moved to the stand-alone signal box (Ww), which became the dispatcher switchboard. This signal box still exists today and has been under protection as a technical monument since 1989.

Station building

Station building seen from the platform side.

The station building was built in 1905 on a half-timbered basis . It stands on a base of dry stone . The station walls are clinkered. The station building has been a listed building since October 25, 1984.

Importance of the train station for the region

Westig train station was very important for the region. It was more important than Hemer station. This is due, among other things, to the Westig - Ihmert - Altena small railway line . For example, the freight transport volume in 1932 was 14,935 tons. In 1935 the transport performance was already 100,000 to 150,000 tons per year. In 1961 the annual output was still 133,699 tons. The first freight train reached Westig on a few days at 5:00 a.m. and the last one left Westig late in the evening. The station was of far greater importance for freight traffic than for local passenger traffic. Freight trains ran on the lines of the former Reichsbahn and those of the Kleinbahn. Most of the goods traffic on the small railways was carried out with trolleys .

Westfälische Kleinbahnen AG is said to have purchased 77 trolleys by the 1950s.

literature

  • Burkhard Wendel: The Hönnetalbahn and its neighboring railways . Ed .: Eisenbahnfreunde Hönnetal e. V./Bundesbahn-Sozialwerkgruppe Eisenbahnfreunde Obere Ruhrtalbahn. 1st edition. Balve / Arnsberg 1987, ISBN 3-89053-020-6 , p. 216 (213 mainly photographic images in the text and on plates).

Web links

Commons : Bahnhof Westig  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Hans-Hermann Stopsack: From Office to City - On the History of Office and City Hemer from 1900 to the Present, ISBN 3-00-006685-3 , pages 792-797.
  2. ↑ a b c List of monuments of the city of Hemer. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 31, 2011 ; Retrieved December 15, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hemer.de
  3. ↑ Gerd Wolff: German small and private railways. Volume 5: North Rhine-Westphalia. Northwestern part . EK-Verlag, Freiburg 1998, ISBN 3-88255-662-5 , p. 117
  4. ^ Christoph Riedel: Railway in the Sauerland - railways between Ruhr and victory . GeraMond Verlag, Munich, 1st edition 1999, ISBN 3-932785-22-3 , page 126.
  5. ↑ City of Hemer: Monument description Stellwerk Hauptstraße Accessed on April 6, 2020.
  6. ^ NRWbahnarchiv: Renaming of the Westig signal box in 1978. Retrieved on May 2, 2020.
  7. ^ City of Hemer: Monument description Bahnhof Westig Retrieved on April 6, 2020.
  8. ↑ a b c d e Burkhard Wendel: The Hönnetalbahn and its neighboring railways . Ed .: Eisenbahnfreunde Hönnetal e. V./Bundesbahn-Sozialwerkgruppe Eisenbahnfreunde Obere Ruhrtalbahn. 1st edition. Balve / Arnsberg 1987, ISBN 3-89053-020-6 , p. 216 (213 mainly photographic images in the text and on plates).