Blankenburg (Harz) station
- Halberstadt - Blankenburg ( KBS 328)
- Blankenburg - fir
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The station Blankenburg (Harz ) is the main railway station in Blankenburg in Saxony-Anhalt Harz district.
Geographical location
The station is located in the north of the city. While this accessibility has been simplified from the northern city of Halberstadt, the route in the resin was quite expensive.
History
On March 31, 1873, Blankenburg station of the Halberstadt - Blankenburg Railway Company ( HBE ) was opened. In the early years, the station was only hit by Halberstadt. Main purpose of the railway was the connection of the Blankenburger smelting works to the railway network.
From Blankenburg station reached on July 3, 1875, the 3.5 km long Erzstufenbahn a metallurgical plant in the west of the city. This route was the oldest industrial railway in the Harz Mountains. In 1885 the Erzstufenbahn was shut down. As early as 1880, the railway Blankenburg - fir was built by the HBE. The course was designed as a gear train with Abtscher rack. For topographical reasons, this route the Blankenburger station in a northwesterly direction had to leave, so that a terminal station was built. This route was called resin sheet and from 1950 to today Rübelandbahn.
1960-65 the Rübelandbahn was electrified. Your traction power system is different from the usual system. Since this route is isolated from the rest of electrified railway network, you could opt for an optimized route for the variant. However, required a long time the use of special locomotives of the E 251 series, the later series 171, which were maintained in the depot Blankenburg near the train station.
After sections of Rübelandbahn had already been shut down by fir and Chorzów, 2005, the passenger traffic on the remaining section to Elbingerode was canceled.
Next to the station Blankenburg, serving the passengers especially, still exist as to the freight station and the North Station, both of which are responsible for the composition of the train for the Rübelandbahn.
Transport links
Train
In passenger transport, only the route of Blankenburg - Halberstadt served. In freight transport, however both routes. The trains use north of the station a detour curve, so that no change of direction is needed. At the same station every hour keep passenger trains from Veolia Transport Saxony- Anhalt.
Bus
The running schedule is on 6 lines of the Harz transport companies from Blankenburg. Objectives are Benneckenstein, Their castle, Elbingerode, Quedlinburg, Wernigerode and Treseburg. The city bus runs usually every hour. HVB is in the transport and tariff association Ostharz. On a day to start a total of 130 compounds from the bus station Blankenburg station directly south near the station.