Friedrichsthal (Saar) station
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Friedrichsthal (Saar)  | |||||||||||
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 View of the entrance building in its current state | |||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||
| Location | Am Bahnhof 3, Friedrichsthal, Saarland Germany | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 49°19′12″N 7°05′20″E / 49.319893°N 7.088867°E | ||||||||||
| Line(s) | Nahe Valley Railway (km 133.1) | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 | ||||||||||
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| Accessible | No | ||||||||||
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| Station code | 1956[1] | ||||||||||
| DS100 code | SFI[2] | ||||||||||
| IBNR | 839110 | ||||||||||
| Category | 6[1] | ||||||||||
| Fare zone | SaarVV: 101[3] | ||||||||||
| Website | www.bahnhof.de | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Opened | 1852 | ||||||||||
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Friedrichsthal (Saar) station is a station in the town of Friedrichsthal in the German state of Saarland. It is on the Nahe Valley Railway (Nahetalbahn) between Saarbrücken and Türkismühle.
The station is located on the Saarbrücken−Neunkirchen railway, an important route in the 19th and early 20th century for the transport of coal from the mines to the coal port of Saarbrücken and to southern Germany and France. The first Friedrichsthal station was opened in 1852 and was located at the extreme south-west of the village. The industrial centre of Friedrichsthal was located in this area. In the second half of the 19th century, the station made the establishments of glass works in Friedrichsthal possible.[4]
The first station was demolished in 1910 to allow the line to be upgraded and today's building was built a few metres further west.[5] The cost of the renewal of the station (access to the island platform without having to use a pedestrian crossing over the tracks and the construction of the new entrance building) was estimated in 1909 to total 253,000 marks.[6]
