Leipzig-Wahren station
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Leipzig-Wahren station
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Old Entrance building
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| Location | Lützschenaer Straße, Wahren, Saxony Germany |
| Coordinates | 51°22′51″N 12°19′18″E / 51.3807°N 12.321681°ECoordinates: 51°22′51″N 12°19′18″E / 51.3807°N 12.321681°E |
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| Platforms | 2 |
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| Station code | 3649 |
| DS100 code | LLW |
| IBNR | 8012197 |
| Category | 5 |
| Website | www.bahnhof.de |
| History | |
| Opened | 1884 |
Leipzig-Wahren station is a station in the Leipzig suburb of Wahren in the German state of Saxony. At the beginning of the 20th century, a large freight yard was developed at it. Until the end of marshalling of trains on 31 December 1994, the Leipzig-Wahren freight yard was along with Engelsdorf (b Leipzig) one of the two major marshalling yards in the Leipzig rail node.
Today the station has two passenger halts, Leipzig-Wahren and Leipzig-Lützschena, as well as a transshipment facility for combined transport.
Wahren station was opened on the Magdeburg–Leipzig railway, initially only for passenger traffic, on 1 August 1884.
At the beginning of the 20th century, all marshalling yards were moved from central Leipzig to the suburbs. This included the Leipzig-Wahren freight yard, which was opened on 9 April 1905. The Prussian state railways connected the station with the Leipzig-Leutzsch–Leipzig-Wahren and the Leipzig-Wahren–Leipzig-Schönefeld lines, which formed part of the Leipzig Freight Ring. At the same time, the Leipzig-Wahren locomotive depot (Bahnbetriebswerk) was built on the north side on the yard. After the opening of Leipzig Hauptbahnhof in 1912, most traffic from Magdeburg ran from Wahren via Wiederitzsch and the Freight Ring to Leipzig and the old direct line was only used for freight traffic. The passenger train tracks were routed to the north of the tracks to the freight yard and the locomotive depot.
The railway yard in the town of Wahren and the freight ring towards Schönefeld were electrified as early as 1914, but shortly after the beginning of the First World War the operation of electric trains in central Germany was stopped and the catenary systems were dismantled for the production of non-ferrous metals. The overhead wiring systems were rebuilt between 1921 and 1923, but the Leipzig-Wahren–Leipzig Hbf railway was not electrified until 1934. Even during the Second World War, development continued, but none of it was completed. During the course of the war, the station was repeatedly attacked from the air and considerably damage was inflicted. After the end of the war there was a further loss of infrastructure due to dismantling for reparations, including both the main railway tracks and the platform tracks. Electrical operations had to be abandoned again in March 1946. In the 1950s and 1960s, the missing second track lines, which had caused particular difficulties in the heavily used Leipzig node, were replaced, but the line to the Magdeburg-Thüringer freight yard in Leipzig, which was only used by local freight traffic, remained as a single-track line. However, with the re-electrification of the line for the second time in about 1960, masts for two-track operations were installed on this line as well, each carrying two 15kV supply lines from the Wahren substation to the switching station at Leipzig Hbf.
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