Braunschweig repair shop
The repair shop in Braunschweig was a repair shop for steam locomotives on Borsigstrasse in Braunschweig . It was in operation from 1927 to 1977 and at the height of the steam locomotive era it was one of the most modern, largest and most important works of the state railway in Germany. The Lämmchenteichsiedlung , in which the workers of the repair shop were housed, was built in front of the plant .
history
Braunschweig received a modern repair shop quite late. After three years of construction, the Reichsbahn repair shop in Braunschweig on Borsigstrasse was put into operation on May 10, 1927 . The reason for the new building was the total obsolescence of the state railway workshop, which was located at what was then the main station and originated from the nursery of the railway. Furthermore, it should relieve the also aged workshops in Magdeburg-Buckau and Halberstadt . Just 17 days after commissioning, on May 27, 1927, the first repaired locomotive left the new factory. The Magdeburg-Buckau workshop was subsequently shut down on April 30, 1930.
The plant mainly looked after the express train steam locomotives of the 01 and 03 series, and later also the standard freight locomotives . From 1974 it was the last steam locomotive repair shop of the DB. The last steam locomotive fully inspected was the 043 364. Up until the abandonment in 1977, the focus of work was on the scrapping of steam locomotives. It is also the last repair shop in Lower Saxony , which has been preserved almost in its original condition.
At the end of the main inspections, the performance of the locomotives was checked on empty or loaded test drives. A special feature of the AW Braunschweig was a load test train made available for this purpose, which consisted of decommissioned locomotive tenders provided with ballast weights.
Reuse
The Braunschweiger Verkehrsfreunde (VBV) association found a home in the western heating hall . The VBV designed its area as a locomotive park. The DB bridge construction yard and part of the signaling plant work in parts of the execution hall. It was also used as a warehouse.
In 2010, Alstom rented large parts of the hall in order to set up a maintenance workshop here. In April 2011, operations began on four 170 m long tracks, and in 2014 a fifth track was added. Work is mainly being carried out on LINT railcars. The maintenance of the Alstom-Coradia-Continental multiple units of Elektro-Netz Niedersachsen-Ost is also planned there from 2015, two additional tracks will be prepared and the access will be electrified.
Cultural monument
Of the buildings of the former Bundesbahn repair shop, the two large workshops (Lokrichthalle and Kesselschmiede) and in the entrance area the canteen and the administration building were placed under monument protection in 1991.
literature
- Jürgen Hörstel: New life in old halls. In: eisenbahn-magazin, issue 4, 2014, pp. 32–35
- Christian Ernst: Busy discontinued model - steam locomotive repair in the AW Braunschweig . In: Railway courier . No. 538 . EK-Verlag, 2017, ISSN 0170-5288 , p. 38-42 .
Web links
- The Braunschweig repair shop at www.eisenbahngeschichte-bs.de ( Memento from July 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- Leaflet of the city of Braunschweig (PDF; 414 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Reichsbahndirektion in Mainz of May 17, 1930, No. 25. Announcement No. 346, p. 155.
- ↑ The load test train of the AW Braunschweig on: www.eisenbahngeschichte-bs.de (web archive), accessed on September 4, 2019.
Coordinates: 52 ° 14 ′ 40 ″ N , 10 ° 32 ′ 56 ″ E