Freital-Hainsberg station

Freital-Hainsberg station is a station on the Dresden–Werdau railway in the district of Hainsberg of the municipality of Freital in the German state of Saxony. The Weißeritz Valley Railway branches off to Kipsdorf from the station. Since 31 May 1992, the station has been served by the Dresden S-Bahn.HistoryNameThe station has had four different names in its history: until 12 January 1918: Hainsberg until 12 Dezember 1933: Hainsberg (Sa) until 29 September 1965: Hainsberg (Sachs) since 29 September 1965: Freital-HainsbergOperationsIt is not known how the tracks of Hainsberg station were laid out at the time of the opening of the Dresden–Werdau railway. In 1874, the station received its first entrance building. The most important station in modern Freital at that time was Freital-Potschappel, which had the most connections to the existing coal mines in Freital. There was no significant growth in transport services at the railway station until the opening of the Weißeritz Valley Railway in 1883. The track systems were expanded and included seven standard-gauge tracks and four narrow-gauge tracks. The tracks were still on the same level. A four-stall locomotive shed of the narrow-gauge railway lay in the eastern part of the station area. The station never had a locomotive shed for standard-gauge operations.In the area used for the transfer of goods between the standard-gauge tracks and the narrow-gauge tracks, the standard-gauge tracks lay to the east and the narrow-gauge tracks to the west. The entrance building was located approximately on the site later occupied by the former signalbox. Passengers had to cross the tracks on the level to reach the trains. The station also included a small goods shed, a loading ramp, a four-stall locomotive shed for the narrow-gauge vehicles with maintenance facilities, a Rollbock pit and a ramp for loading narrow-gauge wagons on standard-gauge wagons.