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, but now it is only a simple through station.

Wüstenbrand
Through station
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 Limbach–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
toward Zwickau Hbf
RB 30
Grüna (Sachs)
toward Dresden Hbf
Location
Wüstenbrand
Location within Saxony
Wüstenbrand
Location within Germany
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", that is in 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 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. "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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