38-456: The Halberstadt–Blankenburg railway is a non-electrified, single-track railway line, from Halberstadt via Langenstein and Börnecke to Blankenburg in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt . The Rübeland Railway connects to the line at Blankenburg (Harz) station . Until 1968, there was a branch to Derenburg . The branch line originally ran to Minsleben . Construction for the first section of
76-535: A clear predominance of tank engines. These were procured in widely varying, sometimes, large quantities totally some 9000 in all. That reflects a structure that largely consisted of unconnected branch lines ( Kleinbahnen ) for which no long-range locomotives – i.e. tender locomotives – had to be built. In terms of pure numbers, goods locomotives dominated, representing some 12,000 out of a total fleet of around 30,000 in Prussian state ownership. According to Hütter and Pieper
114-523: A concession to the Magdeburg–Halberstadt Railway Company to extend the line on 26 November 1860. It started building the extension from Halberstadt via Quedlinburg to Thale on 18 April 1861. The locomotive "Falkenstein" hauled the first train from Halberstadt to Thale on 2 June 1864. A concession was granted for a line via Aschersleben towards Bernburg on 13 April 1864. The line was opened on 10 October 1866. There were now plans to build
152-406: A direct connection to Potsdam and Berlin on the weekend. In the timetable for 2019, Halberstadt station was served by the following services: Two tram lines, two bus routes and a night bus route, which runs to the main districts from 20:00 to about 22:30, are operated by Halberstädter Verkehrs-GmbH (the municipal transport company), stopping in the station forecourt. In addition, southeast of
190-414: A similar type were to be given the number below. Later further sub-divisions were introduced that had higher numbers. Furthermore, within the classes, running numbers were arranged in clear groups. Nevertheless, the complete designation still included the division name and the running number as well as the class letters and numbers. Classes 1 to 3 mainly comprised the old private railway locomotives, left in
228-410: A through station outside the town. Many Halberstadt citizens did not welcome this idea, but the railway company was able to carry it out. The station went into operation at its present location as a through station on 1 August 1868 and the line to Vienenburg was opened on 1 March 1869. The old station facilities were used as a freight yard from then on. The first station building was not preserved. After
266-606: Is 320 metres long. The other platforms have a length of 120 metres. The locomotive depot existed in Halberstadt until 2003. Very large stocks of DR class 50.35 locomotives were based there. It was one of the last steam locomotive depots of Deutsche Reichsbahn . Only Abellio Rail Mitteldeutschland trains stop in Halberstadt. Only Alstom Coradia LINT diesel multiple units (class 1648) have been used since 9 December 2018. Previously class 612 , 640 and Siemens Desiro Classic (class 642) DMUs were used. For many years, there has been
304-624: The Berlin-Potsdam Railway in 1838 and which was therefore known as the " Stammbahn " (roughly translates as 'original line'). The state of Prussia first financed railways around 1850. These were the Royal Westphalian Railway Company ( Königlich-Westfälische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft ) and the Prussian Eastern Railway or Prussian Ostbahn ( Preußische Ostbahn ). In 1875 they funded two more important new railways:
342-699: The Prussian Northern Railway or Prussian Nordbahn ( Preußsische Nordbahn ) and the Marienfelde–Zossen–Jüterbog Military Railway. After the Austro-Prussian War of 1866, various private, commercially oriented lines were brought under Prussian control through annexation, outright purchase or the provision of financial support depending on their situation. Between 1880 and 1889 most of the private lines were nationalised thanks to Prussia's strong financial situation making it
380-591: The Prussian state railways took over the Magdeburg–Halberstadt Railway Company, the marshalling yard was extended to 14 tracks. Similarly, a new signal box was built to handle the increasing traffic as a result of line extensions to Halle (Saale) and between Wernigerode and Bad Harzburg . Further extensions occurred between 1904 and 1908, when two new humps, a water tower and the Wehrstedt bridge were built. Halberstadt became more and more an important railway junction and
418-453: The biggest company in Germany in 1907 . Prussia nationalized its railways in 1880 in an effort both to lower rates on freight service and to equalize those rates among shippers. Instead of lowering rates as far as possible, the government ran the railways as a profitmaking endeavour, and the railway profits became a major source of revenue for the state. The nationalization of the railways slowed
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#1732859329498456-614: The 20th anniversary of the GDR . Wall tiles were installed in the station building. Due to the corrugated iron wall, the station was often called the Sardinendose (sardine can) in Halberstadt. Parts of this screen could still be seen in 2006. There were already plans in 2005 for a refurbishment of the entrance building, which would preserve elements of the old building. Rehabilitation and monument protection were mainly funded by private investors. The state of Saxony-Anhalt contributed €10.2 million for
494-614: The Halberstadt-Blankenburg Railway ( Halberstadt-Blankenburger Eisenbahn , HBE) started on 28 July 1870 and the line was opened on 31 March 1873. A siding to the Blankenburg iron works, which was about 3 km-long, was opened on 12 July 1875. Since the operation as a main line incurred large operating expenses, the line was reclassified as a branch line in 1877. This allowed, among other things, numerous guards to be saved at level crossings . Freight traffic operates to
532-485: The Prussian railway inventory when the ownership of their respective railway organisations was later transferred to the state authorities. This explains their unusually high numbers with about 80 classes and variants, the overwhelming majority of which were constructed between 1877 and 1895. In 1889, Prussian standards were laid down in order that the number of classes could be reduced in the future. The division of locomotives into class variants and different designs showed
570-702: The Silesian station (Berlin's departure point for the Ostbahn since 1882) and a few hundred yards apart from each other the main workshops for the Royal Berlin Division and the Royal Bromberg Division of the Ostbahn. At the end of the First World War the network of the state-owned Prussian railways had a total length of almost 37,500 kilometres. The history of the Prussian state railways ended in 1920 with
608-700: The State of Prussia . The words "state railways" are not capitalized because Prussia did not have an independent railway administration; rather the individual railway organisations were under the control of the Ministry for Trade and Commerce or its later offshoot, the Ministry for Public Works. The official name of the Prussian rail network was Königlich Preußische Staatseisenbahnen (K.P.St.E., "Royal Prussian State Railways") until 1896, Königlich Preußische und Großherzoglich Hessische Staatseisenbahn (K.P.u.G.H.St.E., " Royal Prussian and Grand-Ducal Hessian State Railways ") until
646-449: The construction project. The first work began in August 2008. The building was acquired in 2008 by NOSA GmbH, a holding company owned by the town of Halberstadt. The station forecourt was redesigned, the bus station was relocated and the tram stop was rebuilt. The sheet metal facade was removed and the buildings were almost completely gutted. The entrance building was completed in August 2010 and
684-423: The economic development of Prussia because the state favoured the relatively backward agricultural areas in its railway building. Moreover, the railway surpluses substituted for the development of an adequate tax system. The individual railways acted as if they were independent operations and developed their own rolling stock. The extent of this independence is illustrated in an 1893 street plan of Berlin that shows
722-533: The end of the First World War , and Preußische Staatsbahn (P.St.B., "Prussian State Railway") until its nationalization in 1920. A common mistake is the use of the abbreviation K.P.E.V. in supposed reference to a mythical " Royal Prussian Railway Administration " ( Königlich Preußischen Eisenbahn-Verwaltung ). No such entity ever existed and Prussian railway cars acquired the K.P.E.V. logo apparently through an error originating in their Cologne division. The first Prussian railways were private concerns, beginning with
760-477: The formal opening took place on 15 August. The cost of the actual conversion was around €8.2 million. Several shops are located there. On 29 August 2011, the station was awarded the title of station of the year in the small town station category. Since 2014, the station has been designated as a Kulturbahnhof (cultural station). About 3,350 passengers per day were counted at the station in 2011. Halberstadt station had two platforms in 1950. The second platform
798-504: The introduction of a new system in 1906. For express train, passenger train, goods train and tank locomotives the group letters 'S', 'P', 'G' and 'T' were used together with a type number that specified the main classes. So locomotives of average power were allotted to the '3' classes: S3, P3, G3 and T3. Less powerful engines were given lower numbers and more powerful engines higher numbers. In addition, superheated steam engines were to be given an even class number, whereas wet steam engines of
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#1732859329498836-544: The lime works over the Rübeland Railway. Until the power was removed from the Rübeland Railway’s overhead line in 2005, haulage of traffic in Blankenburg was changed from electric to Diesel locomotives , mostly of class 232 or class 241 . These locomotives then took over the haulage to Halberstadt. To avoid the need to reverse in Blankenburg, a bypass curve exists north of the station. Passenger services run on
874-499: The line every hour. After 1989, class 202 locomotives were often used for hauling passenger trains. From 2000, passenger trains from Halberstadt connected with services to Elbingerode on the Rübeland Railway, which ended in 2005. There were operated by push-pull trains, hauled by Class 218 diesel locomotives. Connex Sachsen Anhalt , now called Transdev Sachsen-Anhalt , took over operations in 2005. Alstom Coradia LINT diesel multiple units have since been used. A special feature of
912-626: The line is that the tracks of the Halberstädter tramway are crossed twice in Halberstadt. Halberstadt station Halberstadt station is a station on the Magdeburg–Thale railway in Halberstadt in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt . A terminal station was opened in the town in 1843. A new through station was opened in another part of the town in 1868. The first service from Halberstadt ran to Magdeburg . Two more lines were added during
950-622: The nationalization and absorption of the various German state railways into the Imperial Railways ( Reichseisenbahn ), later the Deutsche Reichsbahn . For a detailed listing see the List of Prussian locomotives and railbuses For the most part the locomotives listed in the Prussian classification system were not built under state direction, but independently procured by the individual railway companies. In many cases they were only brought into
988-558: The next few decades. In the Second World War, the station suffered heavy damage. Extensive modernisation work took place between 2008 and 2010. The entrance building and the locomotive depot are listed buildings. The through station, which has existed since 1868, is located in the northeast of the town. It is located on the streets of Hinter dem Personenbahnhof ("behind the passenger station") and Bahnhofstraße ("station street"). The line to Magdeburg branches off about 500 metres to
1026-486: The order of the individual divisions. In the lower-numbered classes there were the most varied types of engine sometimes with different wheelbases. So one could not really speak of a standard classification to begin with. It was expected that over time the older locomotives would be paid off so that only the newer standard locomotives would remain, classified in a logical and orderly fashion. The Prussian state railways were, like all other German state railways, subordinated to
1064-429: The original classification system for Prussian locomotives was largely drawn from the Prussian Eastern Railway (Prussian Ostbahn). Under that, the locomotives only had running numbers without class designation. From the locomotive's running number however its purpose could be deduced based on the following allocation of numbers: Because each railway division numbered its locomotives independently using this scheme, there
1102-545: The points had to be set manually using hand switches or keys. Halberstadt came under Soviet administration on 1 July 1945. Trains from Halberstadt ran to the west only to Wernigerode and Stapelburg as the connection over the inner-German border to Vienenburg had been dismantled. Trains from Halberstadt ran to the west only as far as Wernigerode and Stapelburg as the connection over the inner-German border to Vienenburg had been dismantled. Various facilities were repaired up to 1952. Signal box Hr1 operated until 1974. After
1140-870: The station is the bus station, from which nine regional bus lines and four demand-responsive services are operated by Harzer Verkehrsbetriebe , the transport company of the Harz district . Bus route 203 of the state of Saxony-Anhalt runs hourly to Osterwieck via Dardesheim and continues every two hours to Vienenburg. This service was established after the cancellation of the trains on the Heudeber-Danstedt–Osterwieck line . The station provides 157 car parking spaces and 20 bicycle parking spaces. A charging station has been installed for electric cars. Prussian state railways The term Prussian state railways (German: Preußische Staatseisenbahnen ) encompasses those railway organisations that were owned or managed by
1178-475: The station on 1 July 1843 at about 10 am. It was finally opened for passenger traffic on 15 August. It was designed as a terminal station. Two train pairs ran daily in the first years. Freight operations between Magdeburg , Oschersleben and Halberstadt commenced on 2 January 1844. The section to Thale was built from 1860 and the first train ran on it on 2 June 1864. The regional administration in Magdeburg granted
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1216-541: The station unusable until the end of the war. During a second raid on 8 April, the western station area, including the repair shop, and the eastern exit was severely hit. A total of 45 locomotives and hundreds of passenger carriages and freight wagons were destroyed and 80% of the track infrastructure was no longer usable. After the beginning of the reconstruction of the railway tracks, the first train ran west again on 19 May 1945. Eastbound operations resumed on 16 June. Until signal boxes Hr1 and HR2 had been restored in 1952,
1254-483: The station, contrary to the general instructions, which indicated that an ammunition train standing at the siding could not be hauled onto the open field of tracks during an air raid. When one of the ammunition train's anti-aircraft guns opened fire, the station was hit by US Air Force fighter-bombers. After the gasometer exploded, the ammunition train was also hit, destroying the station, the offices and adjoining residential and industrial buildings. The resulting crater made
1292-471: The war, only a few essential repairs were made. The increasing freight volume (up to 18,000 tonnes) in the 1950s and 1960s forced a new expansion of facilities. In the area of the old terminal station a new general freight facility was built and a goods shed what added in the Schützenstraße area in 1974. From 1968 to 1970, the entrance building received a curtain wall made of corrugated iron on the occasion of
1330-504: The west, while the line to Thale run directly to the east. The line to Vienenburg runs to the west. A line branches off to the south via Langenstein to Blankenburg . Halberstadt station was opened by the Magdeburg–Halberstadt Railway Company ( Magdeburg-Halberstädter Eisenbahngesellschaft ) on 21 March 1842. The original station was located on Schützenstraße and had eight tracks. The first freight train ran to
1368-684: Was a locomotive number 120, for example, almost everywhere. As a result, the name of the division was used with the number in order to distinguish them. The full designation for a locomotive with the number '120' went something like "Hannover 120" or "Cöln linksrheinisch 120". However it soon became evident that the numbering structure was too limited, because over time more locomotives entered service than its sequence of numbers had allowed for. In addition, new types of engine were produced, for which no numbers had been allocated, for example four-couplers. This resulted in locomotives being allocated unused numbers outside of their designated sequence. This all led to
1406-420: Was an island platform, which was 312 metres long. The first platform, lying directly next to the entrance building, was much longer than the second one. There was still a third transit track between the two platforms. There were also two platforms in 1981. The station had 157 sets of points and three humps for marshalling. The station now has a total of five platform tracks. They are numbered from 1 to 5. Platform 1
1444-495: Was at its height in the 1920s. The station precincts extended for 4.8 km in 1939. It had two depots for locomotives, a repair shop, an express freight office and several sidings connecting to local companies. Halberstadt was bombed by American troops during the Second World War on 7 and 8 April 1945. The commander of a special train operated by the Wehrmacht that was standing in the station forced its locomotive crew to depart from
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