Bayerisch Eisenstein station

• Landshut and Bavarian Eisenstein (km 134.6 )
• Železná Ruda Alžbětín - Plzeň (km 0)

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The Bavarian Eisenstein / Železná Ruda Alžbětín station is a border station between Germany and the Czech Republic. It combines the 1874 begun by the Bavarian Eastern Railway and completed by the Royal Bavarian State Railways Bavarian Forest railway platform Ling- Bavarian Eisenstein and built by the railroad Pilsen- Billed ( - Komotau ) railway Pilsen market Eisenstein (now Železná Ruda ). The state border between Germany and the Czech Republic runs through the station area with the reception building.

Construction

Based on this rail link is the Bavarian- Austrian State Treaty of 30 March 1873. On Bohemian side the railway Pilsen- Billed ( - Komotau ) built the missing to the border line piece of moderns ago to Eisenstein station and opened it on 20 October 1877. On German side was May 10, completed in 1875, the route of the Bavarian State Railways after nationalization of the Bavarian Eastern Railway Company and the last piece of track from Ludwigsthal by Eisenstein opened to traffic on 15 November 1877.

Agreed until the end of the track assembly, the two railway companies on May 17, 1877 Details of the large track systems for the transfer operation and for the construction of very large reception building. For this purpose, the local terrain had to be filled with more than 250,000 m³ of soil and leveled. The station building was built with its central part on the border. This is followed on each side a wing of the respective web society. The waiting rooms have been designed in accordance with the then style very representative. In the waiting room of the first class is the largest surviving Cologne ceiling. Was completed in the station in 1878. On its south side lies to the west of the track field, which initially had nine, later eleven tracks, the roundhouse with a turntable, which now exhibits the Bavarian local track club in the Bavarian Localbahnmuseum more than 20 vehicles from the local railway time.

Operation

Until 1945

The railway line was conceived as the shortest rail link between Prague and Munich, because of the steep inclines and tight curves, especially on the Bohemian side, they however did not attain its intended meaning. A cross- border rail traffic has not given until 2006, even after the forcible annexation of the Sudetenland to the German Reich in 1938 not. Only around the turn of the century in 1900 ran for several years through coaches Munich - Prague over the distance. The through freight traffic was limited to the region.

Safety curtain

After the end of World War II the cross-border train traffic came to a complete standstill. 1953 from Czechoslovakia, a wire fence drawn across the railway lines and interrupted the tracks. Even in the reception building had been completed the separation by walls. The Czech passenger trains now ended in a few miles north of the border station located Železná Ruda ( Markt Eisenstein ). The DB went with her ​​face to the buffer stop at the border fence and took the southern half of the split reception building. The steam operation of the DB to Bavarian Eisenstein ended for passenger and freight transport in the 1970s. It remained for a long time the rail buses, these were later replaced by diesel locomotives with n- cars.

After the end of the Eastern Bloc

The border crossing was opened for rail traffic on 2 June 1991. Since then head to the trains of České Railways ( ČD ) to Klatovy ( Klattau ) and Plzeň (Pilsen) change. For shunting both railway companies use the tracks without regard to the demarcation of the boundary. Today, on the German side the trains Regentalbahn on behalf of DB Regio Bayern under the logo " Forest Railway " of Plattling rain and Zwiesel to Bavarian Eisenstein.

In 2006, the Nature Park Bavarian Forest bought the German part of the building.

After the signal systems of the station were prepared for the cross-border traffic, since 28 May 2006 forest drive train Regio-Shuttle to in the Špičák seven kilometers away ( Spitzberg ). There is then a transfer possibility to Pilsen. This is the first regularly scheduled cross-border traffic on this route since the completion of the line in 1877. The tariff offer the Bavarian Forest ticket was extended to these trips until after Špičák.

In December 2006, the previous name Železná Ruda of the Czech part of the station was officially changed in Železná Ruda Alžbětín. In the annual timetable 2009/10 reversed hourly trains from Plattling to Bavarian Eisenstein. Individual trains run it until after Špičák. On the Czech side, at alternating local trains and express trains to Plzeň (partly with change in Klatovy ). A total of three couples go by fast train to Prague.

The German railway station part was renovated in the spring of 2010 to mid- 2011 for a total of 5.14 million euros fundamentally. The official groundbreaking ceremony took place after construction began on 10 November 2010. Since the renovation, it houses an exhibition on railway and nature. The Czech station part is owned by the Czech railway network operator SŽDC.

The Bavarian Eisenstein station is also a border tariff point.

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