Flöha station is an important station on the

Dresden–Werdau railway The Dresden–Werdau railway is an electrified, double-track main line in the German state of Saxony. It runs from Dresden Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label=Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German s ...

in the town of

Flöha Flöha () is a town in the district of Mittelsachsen, in Saxony, Germany. Flöha is situated on the confluence of the rivers Zschopau and Flöha, east of Chemnitz. Flöha station connects the town to Dresden, Chemnitz, Freiberg, Annaberg-Buch ...

in the German state of

Saxony Saxony (german: Sachsen ; Upper Saxon: ''Saggsn''; hsb, Sakska), officially the Free State of Saxony (german: Freistaat Sachsen, links=no ; Upper Saxon: ''Freischdaad Saggsn''; hsb, Swobodny stat Sakska, links=no), is a landlocked state of ...

. From here, the railway lines to Pockau-Lengefeld and to Annaberg-Buchholz branch off.

History

At first, Flöha station was only a through station on the Chemnitz–Annaberg railway, opened in 1866. With the building of the Freiberg–Flöha section of the Dresden–Werdau railway, a new station was built to the north-east of the existing station. Since then the entrance building has been a

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("wedge station"). With the construction of the

Reitzenhain–Flöha railway The Reitzenhain–Flöha railway, one of two lines also called the Flöha Valley Railway (german: Flöhatalbahn), is a branch line in Saxony in East Germany. It links the city of Chemnitz with Flöha, Lengefeld, Pockau Pockau is a village and a ...

, opened in 1875, another station was built to the northeast by the Chemnitz-Komotauer Eisenbahngesellschaft (Chemnitz-

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Railway Company). It also built a roundhouse where locomotives were heated (''Heizhaus''). Together with the ''Heizhaus'' of the state railway, a locomotive workshop developed, which from 1946 to 1950 was an independent

Bahnbetriebswerk A ''Bahnbetriebswerk'' is the equivalent of a locomotive depot (or motive power depot) on the German and Austrian railways. It is an installation that carries out the maintenance, minor repairs, refuelling and cleaning of locomotives and other ...

(locomotive depot). In addition to operations on the lines connecting to Flöha, the locomotives stationed here were also responsible for pushing trains on the ramp towards Freiberg. The present stately entrance building was built during a large reconstruction of the station in the 1930s. Although the station has been substantially reconstructed, there are still six platform faces available.

Infrastructure

The station now has three covered platforms with two platform tracks each and a siding. The platforms can be reached by a passenger subway running all the way under the station from the entrance building to the town. The station has been remotely-controlled by an

electronic interlocking In railway signalling, an interlocking is an arrangement of signal apparatus that prevents conflicting movements through an arrangement of tracks such as junctions or crossings. The signalling appliances and tracks are sometimes collectively re ...

system since 18 July 2004, but signalbox W1 is still standing near the exit to Annaberg and a carriage shed; signalbox B2 was demolished in December 2007.

Buildings

* Entrance building (opened on 19 September 1934) * Service building (built in 1893) * Signalbox W1 (commissioned 1934; decommissioned 18 July 2004) * Signalbox B2 (commissioned 1934; decommissioned 18 July 2004; demolished December 2007) * Carriage shed (built in 1883)

Transport services

In the summer 2016, the following services operated at Flöha station:

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Floha station Railway stations in Saxony Railway stations in Germany opened in 1866 station