Leipzig-Engelsdorf station
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Leipzig-Engelsdorf marshalling yard
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| Marshalling yard/S-Bahn station | |
Marshalling yard tracks towards Westberg
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| Location | Hans-Weigel-Straße, Engelsdorf, Leipzig, Saxony Germany |
| Coordinates | 51°20′38″N 12°28′11″E / 51.3440°N 12.4696°ECoordinates: 51°20′38″N 12°28′11″E / 51.3440°N 12.4696°E |
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| Platforms | 2 |
| Other information | |
| Station code | 8018 |
| DS100 code | LE |
| IBNR | 8012197 |
| Category | 5 |
| Website | www.bahnhof.de |
| History | |
| Opened | 1906 |
Leipzig-Engelsdorf marshalling yard (Bahnhof Leipzig-Engelsdorf) is the central marshalling yard in the Leipzig rail node in the German state of Saxony. Until it was closed in 1994, there was also a marshalling yard at Leipzig-Wahren station. It is located on the Leipzig–Dresden, Engelsdorf–Leipzig-Connewitz and Leipzig-Wahren–Engelsdorf railways in the Leipzig suburb of Engelsdorf. The halts of Leipzig Werkstättenstraße (on the Leipzig–Geithain railway) and Leipzig-Engelsdorf Hp (Haltepunkte, on the Leipzig–Dresden railway) are located in the marshalling yard area. It was called Bahnhof Engelsdorf (b Leipzig) until December 2016.
The marshalling yard was opened with 26 sorting tracks on 1 July 1906. This was increased to 31 tracks after the extension of the subordinate group at signal box D. The entry group at the western end of the marshalling yard is located on the Leipzig Freight Ring with double-track connections to the south and the north. For trains arriving from Dresden, which terminate at the eastern hump (Ostberg), there is a haulage track to connect with the entry group of the western hump (Westberg).
14 mechanical signal boxes were built for the operation of the freight yard, mainly of the Bruchsal G design. Over the years, signal boxes B and D were abolished during the replacement of sets of points and in 1974 signal boxes 5, 7, 8 (old), 10 and 11 were replaced during the commissioning of the new central signal box B8. Signal box 4 was destroyed in an air raid during the Second World War and reconstructed in 1947 in a different style with yellow clinker brickwork and a lever frame of the Jüdel design from old spare parts. In the 1960s, an electro-mechanical lever frame of a 1907 design was installed in the previously mechanical signal box A and, in addition, the approach track received three beam retarders. In 1971, colour light signals were installed on the western hump. These are operated centrally by the dispatcher at the western hump, who was moved from signal box 2 to exit signal box 1 at the same time. During the construction of the Engelsdorf crossing structure, which took the Leipzig–Geithain railway under the exit from the yard, exit signal boxes A and 3 were remodelled. Both were equipped with electro-mechanical lever frames of 1912 design with lamp monitoring and signal box A was relocated from its old position on the crossing structure to the already prepared Bremsturm (brake signal box). In 1988, the sorting tracks were equipped with screw-type track brakes so that since then no riders have been required to retard wagons.
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