Adorf (Vogtl) station
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Adorf (Vogtl)
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| Junction station | |
Entrance building, street side
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| Location | Bahnhofstr. 5, Adorf, Saxony Germany |
| Coordinates | 50°19′28″N 12°15′38″E / 50.32431°N 12.26069°ECoordinates: 50°19′28″N 12°15′38″E / 50.32431°N 12.26069°E |
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| Platforms | 4 |
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| Station code | 17 |
| DS100 code | DAD |
| IBNR | 8010001 |
| Category | 5 |
| Website | www.bahnhof.de |
| History | |
| Opened | 1 November 1865 |
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Adorf (Vogtl) station is the station of Adorf in the German state of Saxony. It is a railway junction with only local significance. Only the Plauen–Cheb railway is still operated by scheduled trains, the railway towards Chemnitz has not yet been closed, but only serves diverted trains. It no longer has scheduled passenger services. The railway towards Aš and the Siebenbrunn–Erlbach railway, trains on which used to pass through to Adorf, are now both closed.
The station had three different names in its history, as follows:
On 1 November 1865, Adorf received a railway connection with the opening of the line from Herlasgrün via Oelsnitz and Adorf to Eger (now Cheb) by the Voigtland State Railway (Voigtländische Staatseisenbahn). The newly opened through station most closely resembled Falkenstein station, but as early as 1871, Adorf station had to be extended because of the double-tracking of the Plauen–Eger line to Adorf for the first time.
The through station became a junction station with the opening of the whole Chemnitz–Adorf railway by the Chemnitz-Aue-Adorf Railway Company (Chemnitz-Aue-Adorfer Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, CAAE) on 15 November 1875, but the line of the CAAE ended at a separate terminus, which was only connected to the state railways by way of a connection through sets of points. The tracks of the CAAE ended at a turntable in front of the entrance building. After the nationalisation of the CAAE in 1876, Adorf station was again expanded. In 1880, Adorf then received its own Heizhaus (a locomotive shed with coal-loading facilities).
Due to the position of the turntable at the end of the railway line from Aue, there were occasional accidents; a locomotive even ran through the gable wall of the entrance building on 6 January 1900.
Little was changed by the extension of the Asch–Roßbach railway by the Imperial Royal Austrian State Railways to Adorf in 1905. Previously, a contract had been concluded with the railway company under which the State Railways were given two former freight tracks and were allowed to use the remaining tracks of the Royal Saxon State Railways (Königlich Sächsische Staatseisenbahnen) for payment and to build a water crane and a waiting room. The extension from Roßbach was opened in 1906.
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