Weimar Berka train station

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Weimar Berka train station
Reception building and tracks (2017)
Reception building and tracks (2017)
Data
Design Terminus
Platform tracks 2
abbreviation UWMB
IBNR 8013256
Price range 6th
opening May 15, 1887
location
City / municipality Weimar
country Thuringia
Country Germany
Coordinates 50 ° 58 '50 "  N , 11 ° 18' 50"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 58 '50 "  N , 11 ° 18' 50"  E
Height ( SO ) 231  m
Railway lines
Railway stations in Thuringia
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The Berkaer Bahnhof is a train station in the city of Weimar in Thuringia . Named is the terminus for the city Bad Berka in which the route passes. It was opened in 1887 and is now only served by regional trains.

location

The Berka train station, designed as a terminus, is located in the west of the city of Weimar, about one kilometer from the city center and two kilometers from Weimar train station .

history

On May 15, 1887, the Berka train station was opened to passenger traffic. Freight traffic followed shortly afterwards on June 13th. A two-storey stone-clad solid building with service, waiting and living rooms as well as auxiliary buildings was created. The adjoining goods shed was a half-timbered building. The roofs were covered with natural slate. The trains on the section between the Berkaer Bahnhof and the Erfurter Tor, which ran along the built-up Erfurter Straße on both sides, always caused noise and smoke. This met with sharp criticism from the affected population. For this reason, from 1897 onwards, journeys ended at night at Berka train station instead of at Erfurter Tor. Railway transport companies took care of the rolling in and rolling of the freight on the road to and from the customers. In the course of the new construction of the German National Theater from 1906, it was planned to use the track leading to the Erfurt Gate for material transport. It should even be extended beyond the existing terminus. The local council rejected this proposal, however, and tried to eliminate the railway between Berkaer Bahnhof and Erfurter Tor for good. Under pressure from the district master builder, the court marshal's office and the state ministry, the mayor approved the construction track on May 9, 1906. After renewed resistance, the construction of the track finally came about. Soon after, operations on this track were stopped again. In March 1908 the tracks between the Berka train station and the Erfurter Tor were dismantled.

In October 1917 an accident occurred in the train station. A freight wagon set up its own business in Nohra and rolled unabated to Weimar over the end of the track at Berka train station. Because of this accident, the demands for the removal of the Berka train station from the city increased. A through station slightly outside the city was considered. But there was no transfer.

In 1925, renovation work began on the reception building. A two-storey extension was added on the south side. The expansion of the loading facilities was initially not approved by the city of Weimar, because efforts to relocate the station continued. The relevant ministry finally gave its approval. In November 1926, the converted station was opened to the public.

In August 1939, a small diesel locomotive was purchased for shunting work.

In 1950 the idea of ​​relocating the station was taken up again. Two years later all discussions about it ended. Since then, the project has not been pursued any further. The track was adjusted to the new conditions after 1953, switches to the locomotive shed and the workshop. The rear connection from Nohra and a remaining part of the transfer table were removed. Track 7 was shortened. It ended up as a head track next to the building. Further renovations followed around 1959. One of the two shed tracks was removed.

The cabbage handling led to increasing protests among the population until it was moved to Schwanseestrasse in 1966. Since then there has been no more freight traffic at the Berka train station. The freight tracks in the northern area of ​​the station and those to the freight shed no longer existed since around 1955. Most of the locomotives and cars were stationed at the Berka train station. In addition, platform barriers were set up so that passengers were only allowed access to the platform five minutes before the train left.

In 1977/78 the Berka train station was equipped with an electromechanical signal box in order to increase security and save local staff. It was manned by four dispatchers . At the same time there were two ticket sellers. The operation of the entry signals was therefore only possible depending on the position of the points. It is a dispatcher interlocking from Siemens & Halske of the 1912 design and bears the designation "Wbb".

Reception building as seen from the street (2017)

Until the 1990s, there were local staff to sell tickets. Since the same time, no locomotive-hauled trains have been used on the line for passenger transport. By switching to railcars , the travel time was significantly reduced on the entire route, because the transfer at the Berka train station was no longer necessary. By 1996, all siding that were no longer needed had been removed. A double crossing point remained .

Driveway (2017)

Investments

Initially, the terminus was laid out with four tracks and five points. The station building is located on the 50 meter long platform. At the end of track 1, from 1887 to 1908, the Erfurt Gate continued.

For the period from 1897 to 1904 the existence of seven single points and one double crossing point is documented.

From around 1914 the station was secured by form signals . Light signals have been used since 1977 .

The Berka train station once had a total of 13 tracks and 20 points. The station building with an adjoining goods shed is located north of the platforms and tracks. The platforms are side platforms , both 55 centimeters high and 50 meters long. The facilities also included a storage area, a loading line and a weighbridge . To the west of the station was the engine shed with a workshop, into which three tracks led. Today it serves as a warehouse and workshop for security technology.

Until 1949 there was a separate railway maintenance office at the Berka train station .

Today there are two platforms at the station, one of which is only used every half hour during the morning rush hour. Every hour there is only a stop at the house platform. In the station building are the offices of the dispatchers, who are responsible for train control on the route between Berka station and Kranichfeld. There is also a restaurant and student apartments in the station building.

Freight shed (2017)

Main workshop

The main workshop of the Central Administration for Herrmann Bachstein (CV) railways was built in 1890 at Berka train station and was used for the maintenance of locomotives and wagons. As there was little space for switches, a transfer table was used. The boiler workshop there was also connected to this.

From 1887 to 1925, the engine shed at the workshop had a turntable . In 1923 the engine shed was extended by 13 meters and a low-rise building was added to the side. Two years later, the turntable was removed again because it was no longer usable. The equipment included three lathes , a horizontal and a vertical slotting machine , a milling machine , a stationary boring machine , a transportable cylinder boring machine , a one-sided wheel tire lathe , a forge air hammer , grinding machines, column drilling machines as well as electrical and oxy-fuel welding devices. There was also a 12.5 t gantry crane, a wagon workshop and a paint shop. All repairs to boilers, car bodies and underframes were also carried out here.

The Reichsbahndirektion Erfurt decided on April 12, 1949 to continue the main workshop of the Central Administration for Hermann Bachstein secondary railways as a non-independent railway depot (Bw) for the time being. Vehicles from other former small and private railways were also added. At the end of October of the same year the administrative affiliation to the Weimar depot took place . From 1951, another large wave of repairs to several tank wagons followed, which finally came to an end in 1953. On December 31, 1951, the Weimar Berkaer Bahnhof depot was dissolved. The main signaling workshop of the Rbd Erfurt moved into the building.

Transport links

Today the train station is served hourly by the regional line EB 26 ( Weimar – Kranichfeld ).

Occasionally there are shuttles with historical locomotives from the Weimar Railway Museum from the former depot to the Berka train station.

Web links

Commons : Weimar Berkaer Bahnhof  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Dittrich: List of Abbreviations. Retrieved June 4, 2016 .
  2. ^ Michael Dittrich: IBNR directory. Retrieved June 4, 2016 .
  3. ↑ DB Station & Service AG: Station price list. (PDF) (No longer available online.) P. 91 , archived from the original on March 24, 2016 ; accessed on June 4, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Michael Kurth, Ulf and Waldemar Haußen: The Weimar-Berka-Blankenhainer Railway, From the "Berk'schen Bimmel" to the "Ilmtalbahn" . EK-Verlag , Freiburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-88255-589-9 , p. 11 .
  5. ↑ a b Michael Kurth, Ulf and Waldemar Haußen: The Weimar-Berka-Blankenhainer Railway, From the "Berk'schen Bimmel" to the "Ilmtalbahn" . EK-Verlag , Freiburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-88255-589-9 , p. 71 .
  6. ↑ Michael Kurth, Ulf and Waldemar Haußen: The Weimar-Berka-Blankenhainer Railway, From the "Berk'schen Bimmel" to the "Ilmtalbahn" . EK-Verlag , Freiburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-88255-589-9 , p. 14 .
  7. ↑ Michael Kurth, Ulf and Waldemar Haußen: The Weimar-Berka-Blankenhainer Railway, From the "Berk'schen Bimmel" to the "Ilmtalbahn" . EK-Verlag , Freiburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-88255-589-9 , p. 15 .
  8. ↑ Michael Kurth, Ulf and Waldemar Haußen: The Weimar-Berka-Blankenhainer Railway, From the "Berk'schen Bimmel" to the "Ilmtalbahn" . EK-Verlag , Freiburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-88255-589-9 , p. 16-17 .
  9. ^ Thuringian Railway Association e. V .: Chronicle of the route Weimar - Bad Berka - Kranichfeld. December 21, 2009, accessed June 5, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Michael Kurth, Ulf and Waldemar Haußen: The Weimar-Berka-Blankenhainer Railway, From the "Berk'schen Bimmel" to the "Ilmtalbahn" . EK-Verlag , Freiburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-88255-589-9 , p. 18 .
  11. ↑ Michael Kurth, Ulf and Waldemar Haußen: The Weimar-Berka-Blankenhainer Railway, From the "Berk'schen Bimmel" to the "Ilmtalbahn" . EK-Verlag , Freiburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-88255-589-9 , p. 21-22 .
  12. ↑ Michael Kurth, Ulf and Waldemar Haußen: The Weimar-Berka-Blankenhainer Railway, From the "Berk'schen Bimmel" to the "Ilmtalbahn" . EK-Verlag , Freiburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-88255-589-9 , p. 30 .
  13. ↑ a b Michael Kurth, Ulf and Waldemar Haußen: The Weimar-Berka-Blankenhainer Railway, From the "Berk'schen Bimmel" to the "Ilmtalbahn" . EK-Verlag , Freiburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-88255-589-9 , p. 39-40 .
  14. ↑ Michael Kurth, Ulf and Waldemar Haußen: The Weimar-Berka-Blankenhainer Railway, From the "Berk'schen Bimmel" to the "Ilmtalbahn" . EK-Verlag , Freiburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-88255-589-9 , p. 122 .
  15. ↑ a b Michael Kurth, Ulf and Waldemar Haußen: The Weimar-Berka-Blankenhainer Railway, From the "Berk'schen Bimmel" to the "Ilmtalbahn" . EK-Verlag , Freiburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-88255-589-9 , p. 43 .
  16. ↑ Weimar – Bad Berka – Blankenhain railway. Safety equipment. Retrieved June 6, 2016 .
  17. ^ List of German signal boxes. Entries W – We. In: stellwerke.de. Retrieved October 8, 2016 .
  18. ↑ a b Weimar – Bad Berka – Blankenhain railway. Railway stations (2). Retrieved June 6, 2016 .
  19. ↑ a b Michael Kurth, Ulf and Waldemar Haußen: The Weimar-Berka-Blankenhainer Railway, From the "Berk'schen Bimmel" to the "Ilmtalbahn" . EK-Verlag , Freiburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-88255-589-9 , p. 60 .
  20. ↑ a b c Michael Kurth, Ulf and Waldemar Haußen: The Weimar-Berka-Blankenhainer Railway, From the "Berk'schen Bimmel" to the "Ilm Valley Railway" . EK-Verlag , Freiburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-88255-589-9 , p. 68 .
  21. ^ DB Station & Service AG: Station Weimarer Berkaer Bf. (No longer available online.) April 20, 2016, archived from the original on June 5, 2016 ; Retrieved June 5, 2016 .
  22. ↑ Track plan Weimar Berkaer Bahnhof. Retrieved June 5, 2016 .
  23. ↑ Michael Kurth, Ulf and Waldemar Haußen: The Weimar-Berka-Blankenhainer Railway, From the "Berk'schen Bimmel" to the "Ilmtalbahn" . EK-Verlag , Freiburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-88255-589-9 , p. 74-75 .
  24. ↑ Shuttle trips from Weimar to Weimar Hbf (Weimar Berkaer train station). Retrieved June 16, 2016 .