Bad Schandau railway station

• Decin hl.n. -Dresden -Neustadt ( 22.760 km )
• Bautzen- Bad Schandau ( 64.183 km )

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The Bad Schandau railway station is a local railway junction in Bad Schandau, Saxony. The station is located on the left bank of the Elbe on the railway line Decin Dresden -Neustadt, also the coming of Bautzen railway line ends here. The city is located on the right side of the river, a ferry and a bridge provide road between the station and the city safe.

Bad Schandau is a border station in international traffic between Germany and the Czech Republic. The Bad Schandau railway station today is the only long-distance traffic stop in the National Park Saxon Switzerland. From German railway and town of Bad Schandau, it is marketed as a " National Park Station ."

At the station, approximately 1600 travelers and visitors are counted per day. Every day, 94 trains.

History

Development to 1945

Bad Schandau got its railway connection with the construction of the Saxon-Bohemian railway, whose section was opened Königstein cribs on June 9, 1850. Less than a year later, on April 6, 1851, the release of the last section of cribs to the border and thus the opening of the through railway from Dresden to Prague. At the time, the current breakpoint cribs was the station of the city Schandau.

In connection with the construction of the railway Bautzen- Bad Schandau and the strong growth in traffic, a new building was at the present site, which received the name Schandau railway station when it opened in 1877. Since July 1920 he leads its present name.

1920, the station was rebuilt and enlarged. In this context, he received a new depot and additional trackage. Of significance, the station was mainly for the local freight and passenger transport, but also for the numerous tourists visiting the region. In 1945, the second main track as well as parts of the tracks were dismantled as reparations to the Soviet Union.

Development after 1945

Of crucial importance for the station Bad Schandau was the signing of the Interim Agreement on the implementation of mutual rail transport for the border crossing Prostřední Žleb -Bad Schandau on 31 August 1947. This regulation between the Czechoslovak State Railways ( CSD) and the Deutsche Reichsbahn (DR ) was agreed the handover and takeover of all cross-border trains in Bad Schandau and the train station so the border station. Henceforth made ​​here controls in the cross-border freight and passenger traffic.

Extensive changes were related to the electrification of the railway line from 1970 until 1976. Besides changes to the track facilities and a modern signal box was built. The old signal towers were demolished in the subsequent years. In addition, the road was realigned after cribs, built a modern road bridge across the Elbe River and built in this context, two new overpasses over the station area.

On October 22, 1980, a fire damaged the attic difficult the station building. In July 1981, the goods shed burned down.

As before the turn of 1989 tried more and more citizens to leave the GDR, Czechoslovakia, ordered the Ministry of State Security, "suspicious " travelers from trains to Czechoslovakia in the border Bad Schandau off, check and let return if necessary.

Even after the fall of the wall of the train station in Bad Schandau kept his first importance in freight transport. The mid-1990s, however, there were significant declines mainly in freight transport, which were aggravated after the merger of the German Reichsbahn and German railway Deutsche Bahn AG. This development led to a significant reduction of shunting and thus also the use of existing sidings, so that they were also partially demolished.

In the years 2008-2011 there was a fundamental reorganization of the railway station and the station building, located since 2010 in the possession of the town of Bad Schandau. Since then, there is a tourist information center, bicycle rental, organic market, and disability- platforms. In addition, car and bicycle parking and transition opportunities have been created for Bus and ferry. From the Pro-Rail Alliance, the station was honored as the year 2012 station (special tourism).

Bahnbetriebswerk Bad Schandau

When construction of the station, a simple boiler house of sandstone. In the 1920s, a turntable was built and enlarged the boiler house. 1925, the depot was established in Bad Schandau.

On December 31, 1963, the depot was disbanded as an independent agency and subordinate to the work site Bahnbetriebswerk Pirna. 1994, the operation site was closed. In the 2000s, all the equipment was dismantled.

Importance for traffic

The Roadmap 2013, the station is served by the following lines: