The Lichte (Thuringia) east station () was a

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station of the

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n municipality of Lichte (Wallendorf) in the district of

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. This now-defunct station is located on an altitude of 618.54 m above NN. There are two platforms, three transit tracks, one street connection, one cargo street, one deposit track, and one track to the goods shed. Lichte (Thuringia) east station was also an express train station ({{Langx, de, Eilzugstation) on the railway line from

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History

This train station was opened in January, 16th 1899. The first name was ''Bock-Wallendorf''. It was the new final destination of the railway line from Probstzella to Schmiedefeld (Lichtetal). Only much later, in October, 31st 1913 this

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was enhanced to an ''express railway station'', as the railway line from Probstzella was extended to

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, and

. However, with the reduction of goods to be dispatched to, respective exchanged with, the municipality of Lichte and the town

Neuhaus am Rennweg Neuhaus am Rennweg is a town in the district of Sonneberg, in Thuringia, Germany. It is situated in the Thuringian Forest, 17 km north of Sonneberg, and 22 km southwest of Saalfeld. The former municipalities Lichte image:Wallendorfe ...

, Lichte (Thuringia) east station became less important. In 1963 the piece-goods and parcels dispatch was closed. And in the 1980s the station lost even more importance, because the number of steam locomotives used was declining and finally ceased, and as a result the local water filling station for steam locomotives was closed.Wolfgang Beyer, Emil Ehle: Über den Rennsteig - Von Sonneberg nach Probstzella. S. 109 Further on the train station was unstaffed. However, there was a stop for the semi-fast trains from Sonneberg to Leipzig, in distinction to the Lichte (Thuringia) station next to it. Because of technical deficits the train service was ceased by surprise on 22 January 1997. On 1 July 2006 the German Eisenbahnbundesamt agreed to the discontinuance of the train service. In the meanwhile the ''Deutsche Regionaleisenbahn'' rent this rail line. Since 2008 tourist service by usage of rail-cycle draisines on the rail line from Schmiedefeld (Lichtetal) via Lichte (Thuringia) east station to Lichte (Thuringia) station has been established. The highlight of a draisine tour is the crossing of the '' Viaduct Hammerwiesen'' in Lichte (Wallendorf), close to the Lichte (Thuringia) east station.

References

*Wolfgang Beyer, Emil Ehle: ''Über den Rennsteig - Von Sonneberg nach Probstzella''. Transpress Verlag, Berlin 1983,

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History by Lothar Brill.deRailway time-table (de:Kursbuch) from 1944.de

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