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I took a 1 hour train trip today from Chemnitz to Leipzig, and then in the afternoon returned via the same train line. It's an old diesel-powered train with 40 year old rail cars from the communist era, so it's a time warp compared to the sleek and modern trains on most other lines around here. I snapped photos at the grandiose Leipzig main station, which has 24 boarding platforms plus a couple of other underground platforms for north-south through train traffic (mostly local transit trains).
Outside view of the station and one of the two entrance halls:
Here's the main inside corridor that connects the two entrance halls to the boarding platform area. There is a two level shopping mall below the main corridor:
Here is a portion of the steel arch covered train shed and boarding platform area where the trains pull into the terminal:
This huge rail station was built from 1908 to 1915, heavily bombed in 1945, re-opened for service late 1945 and fully re-built in the 1950s.
I was on the northbound Leipzig express this morning and got off at Burgstaedt station, 15 minutes north of Chemnitz. It has been below freezing all week and the snow from several days ago has turned to ice, so it was pretty slippery on the platform. This is an old diesel train line that still uses 1980s rail cars.
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