Freital-Hainsberg station

Freital-Hainsberg S
Interchange station
Entrance building from the street side
Location	Dresdner Str. 280, Freital, Saxony Germany
Coordinates	50°59′19″N 13°38′15″E / 50.9887°N 13.6376°E / 50.9887; 13.6376Coordinates: 50°59′19″N 13°38′15″E / 50.9887°N 13.6376°E / 50.9887; 13.6376
Line(s)	Dresden–Werdau (km 10.092) Freital-Hainsberg–Kurort Kipsdorf (km -0.113) formerly Freital-Potschappel–Freital-Hainsberg (km 2.833)
Platforms	normal gauge: 2 narrow gauge: 1
Other information
Station code	1912
DS100 code	DHG (Freital-Hainsberg—freight) DFH (Freital-Hainsberg Hp—passengers)
IBNR	8010116
Category	5
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	28 June 1855
Previous names	Hainsberg
Services
Preceding station   Mitteldeutsche Regiobahn   Following station Freital-Hainsberg West toward Zwickau Hbf RB 30 Freital-Deuben toward Dresden Hbf Preceding station   Dresden S-Bahn   Following station Freital-Hainsberg West toward Freiberg (Sachs) S 3 Freital-Deuben toward Dresden Hbf

Freital-Hainsberg station is a station on the Dresden–Werdau railway in the district of Hainsberg of the municipality of Freital in the German state of Saxony. The Weißeritz Valley Railway branches off to Kipsdorf from the station. Since 31 May 1992, the station has been served by the Dresden S-Bahn.

The station has had four different names in its history:

It is not known how the tracks of Hainsberg station were laid out at the time of the opening of the Dresden–Werdau railway. In 1874, the station received its first entrance building. The most important station in modern Freital at that time was Freital-Potschappel, which had the most connections to the existing coal mines in Freital. There was no significant growth in transport services at the railway station until the opening of the Weißeritz Valley Railway in 1883. The track systems were expanded and included seven standard-gauge tracks and four narrow-gauge tracks. The tracks were still on the same level. A four-stall locomotive shed of the narrow-gauge railway lay in the eastern part of the station area. The station never had a locomotive shed for standard-gauge operations.

In the area used for the transfer of goods between the standard-gauge tracks and the narrow-gauge tracks, the standard-gauge tracks lay to the east and the narrow-gauge tracks to the west. The entrance building was located approximately on the site later occupied by the former signalbox. Passengers had to cross the tracks on the level to reach the trains. The station also included a small goods shed, a loading ramp, a four-stall locomotive shed for the narrow-gauge vehicles with maintenance facilities, a Rollbock pit and a ramp for loading narrow-gauge wagons on standard-gauge wagons.

In order to separate the operations between main-line and local traffic, the tracks in the Freital area were elevated, which greatly altered the track layout. The standard-gauge tracks were increased to four tracks and the freight tracks were separated from the passenger tracks. As a whole, the station moved further east. In 1904, a new entrance building was built on the south side of the station. The old building was demolished together with the old narrow-gauge locomotive depot by 1905. The narrow-gauge tracks were built at the level of the freight tracks between the freight tracks and the higher passenger tracks. Passengers could now access the platforms through a passenger subway without crossing any tracks. The 300 metre-long island platform between the standard-gauge passenger tracks with a useful length of 500 metres indicates the length of the trains used on the state railway at the time. For the transport of luggage, a separate tunnel ran from the entrance building to the platform, where there was a baggage lift. Two passenger tunnels were built between the north and the south parts of the station. With the reconstruction of the tracks, the at-grade crossings of the tracks of the Dresden–Werdau railway and the Weißeritz Valley Railway disappeared, the freight sheds were newly built, a loading road was laid out, and signal boxes were built to control the station tracks. In total, the station had 13 standard-gauge tracks and, with the tracks to the locomotive shed, nine narrow-gauge tracks. The narrow-gauge tracks were completely remodelled. The locomotive shed was placed on the west side of the station next to the connecting track to the paper factory. Originally, it also had four stalls, but in 1932 it had three tracks and six stalls. On the east side of the station, there were pieces of equipment for handling goods on the standard-gauge track, such as a Rollbock pit and a goods hall. With the rebuilding of the station, a connection was created from the Weißeritz Valley Railway to the narrow-gauge Freital-Potschappel–Nossen railway for the exchange of rollingstock with the building of the Potschappel–Hainsberg railway.