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Greiz Station
Greiz station is located in the town of Greiz in the German state of Thuringia. It is on the Gera Süd–Weischlitz railway, which is still in operation, and the Neumark–Greiz railway, which has been suspended since 1999, branches off there. History Although a route through the Elster valley was considered for the first time in the 1830s, Greiz only received a rail connection in 1865 with the opening of the Neumark–Greiz railway by the private Greiz-Brunn Railway Company (''Greiz-Brunner Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft''). This line, however, ended in the Elster valley and was located far from the town centre. Therefore, a direct railway connection was desired in the 1860s. The Saxon-Thuringian Railway Company (''Sächsisch-Thüringische Eisenbahngesellschaft'') therefore received a concession for the construction of the Wolfsgefärth–Weischlitz railway. The Wolfsgefärth–Greiz section was opened on 17 July 1875 and the station (originally called ''Greiz unt Bf''— Greiz lower ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greiz
Greiz () is a town in the state of Thuringia, Germany, and is the capital of the district of Greiz. Greiz is situated in eastern Thuringia, east of state capital Jena, on the river ''White Elster''. Greiz has a large park in its center (Fürstlich Greizer Park) which is classified as an English garden. Thomasstraße, Burgstraße, Marktstraße, Waldstraße, and Leonhardtstraße with their Jugendstil houses are well known examples of that architectural style. Prof.-Dr.-Friedrich-Schneider-Straße 4 is one of the earliest examples of Art Deco architecture (built in 1911). History As with other nearby settlements, the place name (originally ''Grouts'') is of Slavic origin and means '' gord''. The first documented mention of the settlement dates from 1209. The prime location of Greiz on the confluence of the White Elster river and its tributary Göltzsch helped to make it a fast-growing town. It was recognized as a town in the 13th century. Later the House of Reuss, a ruling German d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DRG Class 86
The DRG Class 86 was a standard (see ''Einheitsdampflokomotive'') goods train tank locomotive with the Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft. It was intended for duties on branch lines and was delivered by almost all the locomotive building firms working for the Reichsbahn. From 1942 it was built in a simplified version as a 'transitional war locomotive' (''Übergangskriegslokomotive'' or ''ÜK''). The most obvious changes were the omission of the second side windows in the cab and the solid disc carrying wheels. History Almost all German locomotive factories took part in building these engines, 775 examples being produced in the period from 1928 to 1943. Its area of operations was predominantly the routes in Germany's Central Uplands (''Mittelgebirge''); as a result the first 10 units were given a Riggenbach counter-pressure brake. Twenty locomotives were destroyed during the Second World War; lightly damaged engines were repaired. Of the original 775 units, 175 went to the GDR ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weischlitz Station
Weischlitz station is a local railway junction in the municipality of Weischlitz in Vogtland in the German state of Saxony. The station is located on the Plauen–Cheb railway and the railway from Gera Süd. History The Voigtland State Railway (''Voigtländische Staatseisenbahn''), which was opened in 1865 by the Royal Saxon State Railways (''Königlich Sächsische Staatseisenbahnen''), provided a rail connection to numerous villages and towns in the Vogtland railway, but it involved numerous twists on a long route. In the 1860s, it was planned to shorten the route by the construction of the Plauen–Oelsnitz link. Weischlitz received a station on the section of the line approved in 1868. The White Elster was moved a little farther west into a new river bed to allow the station to be built on the river bed. From the outset, the station was designed for the integration of the Wolfsgefährth–Weischlitz railway of the private Saxon-Thuringian Railway Company (''Sächsisch-Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plauen
Plauen (; Czech language, Czech: ''Plavno'') is, with around 65,000 inhabitants, the fifth-largest city of Saxony, Germany after Leipzig, Dresden, Chemnitz and Zwickau, the second-largest city of the Vogtland after Gera, as well as the largest city in the Saxon Vogtland (German: ''Sächsisches Vogtland''). The city lies on the river White Elster (''Weiße Elster''; a tributary of the Saale), in the Central Vogtlandian Hill Country. Plauen is the southwesternmost city of a string of cities sitting in the densely populated foreland of the Elster Mountains, Elster and Ore Mountains, stretching from Plauen in the southwest via Zwickau, Chemnitz and Freiberg to Dresden in the northeast. It is the capital of the Vogtland District. Plauen borders Thuringia to the north, and it is also situated near the Saxon border with Bavaria (Franconia) and the Czech Republic (Bohemia). Although being a Saxon city, the regional Vogtlandian dialect spoken in Plauen is a (Upper Saxon, Saxon-influenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gera Hauptbahnhof
Gera Central Station on the website of Thuringia Tourism. Retrieved 28 Feb 2014. () is the main station of the town of . Gera is one of the largest cities in Germany with no long-distance rail connections and no electrified lines. The station is a significant regional transport hub. The station is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 3 station. History [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DRB Class 50
The DRB Class 50Wartime locomotives classes are prefixed DRB (Deutsche Reichsbahn) to distinguish them from those introduced by the DRG (prefixed DRG), which became defunct in 1937, and those introduced later by the East German Deutsche Reichsbahn (prefixed DR). is a German class of 2-10-0 locomotive, built from 1939 as a standard locomotive (''Einheitsdampflokomotive'') for hauling goods trains. It had one leading axle and five coupled axles and was one of the most successful designs produced for the Deutsche Reichsbahn. This class was procured as part of the German Nazi party's preparations for war that led into the Second World War. Up to 1948, 3,164 Class 50 engines were built by almost all the European locomotive factories – towards the end as so-called provisional war locomotives (''Übergangskriegslokomotiven'') and classified as 50 ÜK. At the end of the steam locomotive era, they became virtually a universal class of mixed-traffic steam engine that, thanks to their lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DR Class V 100
The DR Class V 100 (german: DR-Baureihe V 100), redesignated the Class 110 in 1970, was a four-axled diesel locomotive for medium duties operated by the Deutsche Reichsbahn (GDR), Deutsche Reichsbahn of East Germany. Locomotives of the type were also supplied to railways in China and Czechoslovakia and to various industrial operators. Production In all, 1,145 units of this class were built. The internal factory type designations of the engines should not be confused with their railway operator classes: * 2 prototypes (1964) * 867 as type V 100.1 as DR V100.0 class (subsequently 110.0 class) (1965–78) * 59 of type V 100.2 for China (1974–76) * 131 of type V 100.3 for China (1977–82) * 68 of type V 100.4 as DR 111 class (37 locomotives) and various industrial users (1981–83) * 18 of type V 100.5 as DR 110.9 class (11 locomotives in 1976/83) and Czechoslovak State Railways, CSD T476 class (7 locomotives in 1981) History (DR locomotives) The diesel programme established ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
