page_title: Lambrecht (Pfalz) station
section_title: Further development and the opening of the Little Cuckoo Railway
hierarchical_section_title: Lambrecht (Pfalz) station / History / Further development and the opening of the Little Cuckoo Railway
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Bahnhof Lambrecht um 1900
context_page_description: Lambrecht (Pfalz) station is the station of the town of Lambrecht in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Deutsche Bahn classifies it as belonging to category 4 and it has three platform tracks. The station is located in the network of the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Neckar and belongs to fare zone 121. Its address is Bahnhofstraße 4.
  It is located on the Mannheim–Saarbrücken railway, which essentially consists of the Palatine Ludwig Railway. It was opened on 25 August 1849, when the Ludwig Railway was put into full operation. In 1902 an industrial track was built to Sattelmühle and it was extended as a branch railway to Elmstein and fully opened in 1909. This carried normal passenger services up until 1960 and was reopened as a heritage railway in 1984.
context_section_description: In the 1880s, there were first efforts to improve transport links with the neighbouring Elmstein valley (Elmsteiner Tal). However, plans to build a tramway from Neustadt via Lambrecht to Elmstein did not proceed. The Bavarian government accepted a bill which would have allowed the construction of branch lines in the Palatinate on 5 April 1892; this would have granted interest rate guarantees for certain routes. During this time, the construction of a branch line from Lambrecht to Elmstein was also discussed by Andreas Deinhard in the Chamber of Deputies. With the gradual demise of timber rafting at the end of the 19th century, the main source of livelihood in the Elmstein Valley was threatened and the population was forced to find other sources of income. Those affected saw the solution to the problem as a railway link that would act as a replacement for the transportation of wood using timber rafts. In addition the planned line was seen as a way of stimulating the economy of the valley.
  In 1902, an industrial siding was opened via Frankeneck to the hamlet of Sattelmühle as a stage towards building a line to Elmstein. Finally, the Little Cuckoo Railway running up to Elmstein was opened on 23 January 1909. The train that was expected to make the opening trip from Elmstein, however, was involved in an accident, and had to be replaced by a train from Lambrecht.
  At the beginning of the twentieth century, the station had ticket gates like other stations in the Palatinate. During this time, the station was managed by the operations and construction inspectorate (Betriebs- und Bauinspektion) of Neustadt an der Haardt and was the site of a Bahnmeisterei (office of the supervisor of track maintenance). The Königliche Eisenbahndirektion (Royal railway division of Ludwigshafen, which was established when the Palatine Ludwig Railway Company (Pfälzische Ludwigsbahn-Gesellschaft) was taken over by the Royal Bavarian State Railways (Königliche Bayerische Staats-Eisenbahnen) in 1909, became the Reichsbahndirektion (Reichsbahn division) of Ludwigshafen after the founding of the Deutsche Reichsbahn in 1922. A year later, the railway workers employed at the railway station were expelled during the operation of the railway by the French military during the occupation of the Palatinate by France. They then returned to work. During the dissolution of the railway division of Ludwigshafen on 1 April 1936, it was transferred to the railway division of Mainz and the Betriebsamtes (RBA) Neustadt (operations office of Neustadt).
  In the course of the combat operations during the Second World War, the station building was destroyed in March 1945 by a fire, which was fought by foreign forced labourers. As a result, a barracks, which had previously been used by the Wehrmacht to accommodate horses, had to assume its function.
caption: Station about 1900
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