Klingenberg-Colmnitz station

Klingenberg-Colmnitz S
Former interchange station
Standard-gauge entrance building looking towards Dresden
Location	Bahnhofstr. 12, Klingenberg, Saxony Germany
Coordinates	50°55′33″N 13°30′03″E / 50.92586°N 13.50095°E / 50.92586; 13.50095Coordinates: 50°55′33″N 13°30′03″E / 50.92586°N 13.50095°E / 50.92586; 13.50095
Line(s)	Dresden–Werdau (km 25.369) former Klingenberg-Colmnitz–Frauenstein (km 0.0) former Klingenberg-Colmnitz–Oberdittmannsdorf (km 0.0)
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	3271
DS100 code	DKC
IBNR	8012044
Category	6
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	28 June 1855
Services
Preceding station   Mitteldeutsche Regiobahn   Following station Niederbobritzsch toward Zwickau Hbf RB 30 Edle Krone toward Dresden Hbf Preceding station   Dresden S-Bahn   Following station Niederbobritzsch toward Freiberg (Sachs) S 3 Edle Krone toward Dresden Hbf

Klingenberg-Colmnitz station is a station on the Dresden–Werdau railway and the start of two former 750 mm gauge railways, the Klingenberg-Colmnitz–Oberdittmannsdorf and the Klingenberg-Colmnitz–Frauenstein railways, in the municipality of Klingenberg in the German state of Saxony. The station is the top station of the Tharandter Steige ("Tharandt climb").

The station was built on 11 August 1862 with the opening of the Dresden-Werdau railway. Immediately after the opening, the station at the top of the Tharandter Steige, which was feared by the operators of steam trains, was of great importance, as almost all the trains had to be assisted by bank engines from Tharandt station. Trains had to climb 230 metres of altitude from the valley station on a twelve kilometre-long section.

The station initially had fewer regional connections, but it was important as a point for the detachment of bank engines after the completion of the climb. A photograph of the station shows it with only one platform, but, in another photograph, the same area is visible looking towards Freiberg with two platforms. The freight train tracks look rather modest with a total of five tracks.

This changed on 14 September 1898 with the opening of the Klingenberg-Colmnitz–Frauenstein narrow-gauge railway, which was supplemented by the Klingenberg-Colmnitz–Oberdittmannsdorf narrow-gauge railway in 1923. The station precinct was now larger as they can be seen on the depicted track plan. Until the beginning of the 1970s, the railway lines remained in this form. For the exchange of goods, there was only one transhipment hall and two loading cranes, one in the station forecourt and one at the exit of the narrow-gauge railway towards Frauenstein and towards Oberdittmannsdorf.Rollbock devices and transporter wagons were never used on the Klingenberg-Colmnitz–Frauenstein railway and transporter wagons were used only as far as Naundorf on the railway to Oberdittmannsdorf. In addition, a shed with two tracks, each capable of holding two locomotives, a coal shed and a coal store were built in the narrow-gauge section of the station. This locomotive depot had already been built by the opening of the line to Frauenstein. This meant that the track layout of the station was essentially complete.