Pockau-Lengefeld station
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Pockau-Lengefeld
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| Junction station | |
Erzgebirgsbahn DMU in front of the entrance building
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| Location |
Pockau-Lengefeld, Saxony Germany |
| Coordinates | 50°42′24″N 13°13′38″E / 50.7067°N 13.2271°ECoordinates: 50°42′24″N 13°13′38″E / 50.7067°N 13.2271°E |
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| Platforms | 3 |
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| Station code | n/a |
| DS100 code | DPF |
| IBNR | 8010277 |
| History | |
| Opened | 15 February 1875 |
Pockau–Lengefeld station is a local railway junction in Pockau-Lengefeld in the German state of Saxony. The Pockau-Lengefeld–Neuhausen railway branches off the Reitzenhain–Flöha railway here. The station and lines were opened in 1875.
Today, the station has lost much of its former importance, the former Pockau-Lengefeld locomotive depot was closed in the 2000s. No passenger traffic has taken place on the Pockau-Lengefeld-Marienberg section since 2013. Erzgebirgsbahn operates services hourly from Monday to Friday with gaps at noon and in the evening on the Chemnitz–Flöha–Pockau-Lengefeld–Olbernhau route. On weekends, it generally runs every two hours.
The first serious proposals for railway construction in the Flöha valley and the area around Marienberg were put forward in the 1860s. The Chemnitz-Komotauer Eisenbahngesellschaft (Chemnitz-Chomutov Railway Company) was founded in 1871 and in the same year began the first preparations for the Reitzenhain–Flöha and Pockau-Lengefeld–Olbernhau lines. Although it was known as Pockau-Lengefeld from the outset, the station was completely in the Pockau area, while the town of Lengefeld is on a mountain range far from the station in the Flöha valley.
Even before the end of the construction, the station opened for goods traffic on 15 February 1875. The opening ceremony of the Marienberg–Flöha section for passenger transport took place on 24 May 1875. The branch to Olbernhau was also opened in the same year. After considerable financial losses, the Saxon state bought the Chemnitz-Chomutov Railway Company in 1876.
The station was designed as an Inselbahnhöfe (island station, that is surrounded by rail tracks) and was expanded several times over the following decades. While there had been a total of eight tracks (five to the south and three to the north of the entrance building) before 1896, the station had 19 tracks in 1940 (ten to the south and nine to the north of the station building).
After the end of the Second World War, small changes to the track layout were gradually implemented; this ended in a radical reconstruction of the station in 2005/2006. At the same time, the remaining tracks were reduced to five. Since then, through passages have been possible only on the northern side, because all three remaining tracks on the southern side terminate.
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