Roßlau (Elbe) station
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Roßlau (Elbe)
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| Junction station | |
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Entrance building from the street
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| Location |
Dessau-Roßlau, Saxony-Anhalt Germany |
| Coordinates | 51°53′03″N 12°14′14″E / 51.884273°N 12.237256°ECoordinates: 51°53′03″N 12°14′14″E / 51.884273°N 12.237256°E |
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| Platforms | 3 |
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| Station code | 5358 |
| DS100 code | LR, LRG (freight yard) |
| Category | 4 |
| History | |
| Opened | 17 August 1841 |
| Electrified | 1923-1946 17 March 1958 |
| Traffic | |
| Passengers | < 2,500 |
Roßlau (Elbe) station is a passenger station and freight yard in the district of Roßlau of the city of Dessau in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt.
The station building is located on the east side of the tracks. Platform 1 is the main platform next to the reception building and platforms 2 and 3 form an island platform. Both platforms are covered and connected by a tunnel.
The station is a railway junction. North of the passenger station the Roßlau-Falkenberg/Elster line branches off to the north east at a triangular junction from the Trebnitz–Leipzig railway. On it is the formerly significant Roßlau freight yard. It is connected by means of connecting curves to the other line, but it is now largely abandoned. The Wiesenburg–Roßlau railway also ends here.
A siding runs to the west from the passenger station to the Roßlau shipyard (Roßlauer Schiffswerft).
Immediately south of Roßlau station is the railway bridge over the Elbe.
In 1841, the Berlin-Anhalt Railway Company (Berlin-Anhaltische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft) had built its first station building in Roßlau for the construction of its main line from Berlin via Wittenberg and Dessau to Köthen. The Dessau–Coswig section was inaugurated on 17 August 1841. Services were running regularly to the Anhalt station by 10 September 1841. The cost of the first small building was stated to be 2,169 thalers. In the following year an extension was added for a post-Expeditions-Lokale ("post journey bar").
The present main building of the station was built in 1866 and its predecessor to its north was demolished in the following year. Additional tracks were laid in the 1870s in response to the extension of the Anhalt Leopold's railway from Zerbst to Magdeburg and the construction of the Wittenberg Falkenberg railway. The thus greatly increasing freight traffic—in particular for the transport of coal from Upper Silesia—required the establishment of a direct connection between the Wittenberg line and the Zerbst line; an area called the Eisenbahninsel ("railway island") was created by the triangle of lines thus created. The current freight yard was also established at this time and opened on 15 October 1877.
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