Wüstenbrand station

Wüstenbrand station is a station on the Dresden–Werdau railway in the south west of the German State of Saxony. In the past, it was a terminus for the secondary lines to Limbach-Oberfrohna and Neuoelsnitz. Currently, it serves as a through station.

Wüstenbrand
Deutsche Bahn
Through station
General information
LocationBahnhofstr. 18, Hohenstein-Ernstthal, Saxony
Germany
Coordinates50°48′20″N 12°45′24″E
Line(s)
  • Dresden–Werdau railway (km 94.31)
  • former Neuoelsnitz–Wüstenbrand (km 12.995)
  • former Neuoelsnitz–Wüstenbrand (km 12.144)
Platforms2
Other information
Station code6952[1]
DS100 codeDWD[2]
IBNR8010388
Category6[1]
Websitewww.bahnhof.de
History
Opened1 November 1858
Services
Preceding station Mitteldeutsche Regiobahn Following station
Hohenstein-Ernstthal
towards Zwickau Hbf
 RB 30 Grüna (Sachs)
towards Dresden Hbf
Location
Wüstenbrand is located in Saxony
Wüstenbrand
Wüstenbrand
Location within Saxony
Wüstenbrand is located in Germany
Wüstenbrand
Wüstenbrand
Location within Germany
Wüstenbrand is located in Europe
Wüstenbrand
Wüstenbrand
Location within Europe

History
Wüstenbrand station (2013)

The station was built along with the Dresden–Werdau railway in 1858 as a connecting station to the Keilbahnhof ("wedge station", referring to the wedge between the branching tracks) of the coal railway to Lugau (which was later extended to Neuoelsnitz). Using a connecting curve, the coal trains could also run directly to Chemnitz. As early as August 1862, the station had to be expanded, since public passenger and goods traffic to Lugau were permitted from then on.

The line to Limbach was opened in 1897 and the system of tracks was expanded again. In 1899, a new entrance building and a workshop were built at a cost of about 85,000 marks for the same reason.

Already in the 1950s, the station began to decline and passenger and freight traffic to Limbach were discontinued in 1950 and the rest of the line to Grüna was assigned to the Chemnitz–Obergrüna line. After Die Wende, the traffic to Neuoelsnitz also disappeared in 1990.

In the 1995/96 timetable, the 1667 express from Munich to Dresden stopped in Wüstenbrand every Friday.

During the upgrade of the Saxon-Franconian trunk line, the system of tracks was extensively rationalised in the late 1990s, leaving only two passing loops with outside platforms and two sidings.[3]

References
  1. "Stationspreisliste 2023" [Station price list 2023] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 28 November 2022. Retrieved 14 December 2022.
  2. Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
  3. "Track plan for Wüstenbrand station" (PDF). Deutsche Bahn.

Sources
  • Stephan Häupel; Eberhard Schramm; Jürgen Viehweger (1998). Nebenbahnen um Wüstenbrand (in German). Nordhorn: Verlag Kenning. ISBN 3-927587-94-X.
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