Flöha station

Flöha station is an important station on the Dresden–Werdau railway in the town of Flöha in the German state of Saxony. From here, the railway lines to Pockau-Lengefeld and to Annaberg-Buchholz branch off.

Flöha
Junction station
Entrance building, street side
LocationBahnhofstr. 2a, Flöha, Saxony
Germany
Coordinates50°51′16″N 13°04′30″E
Line(s)
Platforms6
Other information
Station code1816[1]
DS100 codeDFL[2]
IBNR8010108
Category4[1]
Websitewww.bahnhof.de
History
Opened1 February 1866

History

At first, Flöha station was only a through station on the Chemnitz–Annaberg railway, opened in 1866. With the building of the Freiberg–Flöha section of the Dresden–Werdau railway, a new station was built to the north-east of the existing station. Since then the entrance building has been a Keilbahnhof ("wedge station"). With the construction of the Reitzenhain–Flöha railway, opened in 1875, another station was built to the northeast by the Chemnitz-Komotauer Eisenbahngesellschaft (Chemnitz-Chomutov Railway Company).[3][4] It also built a roundhouse where locomotives were heated (Heizhaus). Together with the Heizhaus of the state railway, a locomotive workshop developed, which from 1946 to 1950 was an independent Bahnbetriebswerk (locomotive depot). In addition to operations on the lines connecting to Flöha, the locomotives stationed here were also responsible for pushing trains on the ramp towards Freiberg.[5]

The present stately entrance building was built during a large reconstruction of the station in the 1930s.[3]

Although the station has been substantially reconstructed, there are still six platform faces available.

Infrastructure
Flöha station building and station forecourt (May 2008)

The station now has three covered platforms with two platform tracks each and a siding. The platforms can be reached by a passenger subway running all the way under the station from the entrance building to the town.

The station has been remotely-controlled by an electronic interlocking system since 18 July 2004, but signalbox W1 is still standing near the exit to Annaberg and a carriage shed; signalbox B2 was demolished in December 2007.[6]

Buildings
  • Entrance building (opened on 19 September 1934)
  • Service building (built in 1893)
  • Signalbox W1 (commissioned 1934; decommissioned 18 July 2004)
  • Signalbox B2 (commissioned 1934; decommissioned 18 July 2004; demolished December 2007)
  • Carriage shed (built in 1883)

Transport services
Crossing of the RB 30 to Dresden (left) and RE 3 to Hof (right) in Flöha station on 11 June 2016 (last day of DB Regio operations on both services)

In the summer 2016, the following services operated at Flöha station:

Line Route Frequency (min) Operator
RE 3 Dresden – Freiberg (Sachs) – Flöha – Chemnitz – Glauchau (Sachs) – Zwickau (Sachs) – Plauen (Vogtl) – Hof 060 Mitteldeutsche Regiobahn
RB 30 Dresden – Freiberg (Sachs) – Flöha – Chemnitz – Glauchau (Sachs) – Zwickau (Sachs) 060 Mitteldeutsche Regiobahn
RB 80 Chemnitz – Flöha – Zschopau – Annaberg-Buchholz – Cranzahl 060 Erzgebirgsbahn
RB 81 Chemnitz – Flöha – Pockau-Lengefeld – Olbernhau-Grünthal 060 Erzgebirgsbahn

References
  1. "Stationspreisliste 2021" [Station price list 2021] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 16 November 2020. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
  2. Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
  3. Kurt Kaiß; Matthias Hengst. Eisenbahnknoten Chemnitz – Schienennetz einer Industrieregion (in German). p. 104.
  4. Kurt Kaiß; Matthias Hengst. Eisenbahnknoten Chemnitz – Schienennetz einer Industrieregion (in German). p. 117.
  5. Egon Kretschmar (2003). Die Bahnbetriebswerke in Chemnitz/Karl-Marx-Stadt (in German). Witzschdorf: Bildverlag Thomas Böttger. pp. 47 ff. ISBN 3-9808250-8-6.
  6. "Flöha" (in German). www.Sachsenschiene.de. Retrieved 29 December 2016.
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