Mosel station is a station on the Dresden–Werdau railway and the former 750 mm gauge Mosel–Ortmannsdorf railway in the village of Mosel, part of Zwickau in the German state of Saxony.
Former interchange station | |
General information | |
Location | Glauchauer Str. 18, Mosel, Zwickau, Saxony Germany |
Coordinates | 50°47′01″N 12°28′52″E / 50.78363312117°N 12.48117685317°E |
Line(s) |
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Platforms | 2 |
Other information | |
Station code | 4185[1] |
DS100 code | DML[2] |
IBNR | 8012388 |
Category | 6[1] |
Website | www.bahnhof.de |
History | |
Opened | 15 November 1858 |
History
editThe station was opened in 1858 with the Chemnitz–Glauchau–Zwickau section of the Dresden–Werdau railway. It was originally classified as a Haltepunkt (halt) and was reclassified as a station in 1875. With the construction of the narrow-gauge Mosel–Ortmannsdorf railway, which was opened in 1885, Mosel became an interchange station. The facilities were extensively expanded for this purpose. In addition to an enlargement of the entrance building, a roundhouse where locomotives were heated (Heizhaus), a new freight shed and other buildings were built. Since 1893, the Zwickau–Crossen–Mosel railway, a freight-only line, has entered the station.
There was a gated level crossing at the station until 1900. Then an underpass was built because of the great increase in traffic on the Dresden–Werdau railway; this still exists today.
In 1951, the narrow-gauge railway was dismantled, but the buildings of the narrow-gauge line remained for some time. The coal-loading facility, for example, was demolished only in 1982.[3] Since 1991, the industrial railway, which now only connects to a drive shaft factory and a Volkswagen works, has been integrated into the eastern part of the station since the 1980s. The remaining part of the industrial railway was converted into a shunting track on 30 April 1999.
References
edit- ^ a b "Stationspreisliste 2024" [Station price list 2024] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 24 April 2023. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
- ^ Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
- ^ Reiner Scheffler (1996). Schmalspur-Heizhäuser in Sachsen (in German). Nordhorn: Verlag Kenning. p. 26. ISBN 3-927587-48-6.
External links
edit- "Photographs of Mosel station" (in German). www.sachsenschiene.net. Retrieved 4 January 2017.