Railway depot Calw

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on the left the old depot area next to the junction of the two railway lines

The Calw depot is located at the abandoned Calw station at the branch of the Württemberg Black Forest Railway from the Nagold Valley Railway . It was in operation as a depot from 1872 to 1953 and then for two years until 1955 as a branch of the Pforzheim depot.

history

The depot was built in 1872, the same year the Württemberg Black Forest Railway was inaugurated. In the following decades, extensions were added and enlarged several times, because since its early years it was too small to be an intersection between two main routes. However, due to a lack of space (the factory premises wedged between the track and the rock face), these conversions were not large enough and did not correspond to the actual space requirements. This particularly affected the turntable , the length of which of 16.10 meters was still sufficient for most of the Württemberg tender locomotives, but posed a problem for the Reichsbahn machines that were increasingly appearing from 1922 onwards. It was considered again and again to move the depot to another location. Shortly before theFirst World War began in the Pforzheim district of Brötzingen with a new building that should have taken over the tasks of the Calw depot. But when the war began, the project was dropped again. So the whole Calw plant remained modest in scope and importance and was never modernized.

The foundation of the large engine shed

On October 1, 1953, the plant was dissolved as an independent office and downgraded to the branch of the Pforzheimer Bahnbetriebswerk. A year and a half later, on April 1, 1955, it ended as a formal office. The systems were only used for supplying and overnighting steam locomotives. At the end of October 1972, the turntable was scrapped and the pit below was filled. A few months later, in 1973, all the buildings in the former depot were demolished; however, the tracks remained lying.

Today all the tracks, floor-level foundations of the locomotive sheds with maintenance pits, the filled-in turntable pit, a coal bane, the base of a coaling crane and a loading gauge are still present on the site. The Württembergische Schwarzwaldbahn Calw – Weil der Stadt association , which is currently leasing the site, works there regularly to keep these areas free from vegetation.

Operating facilities

The concrete base of the coal crane with the coal bans

The plant's facilities were located in a poorly accessible location to the east of the line to Stuttgart , directly at the junction of the other line to Pforzheim.

The two-track locomotive shed with four stalls was 57 meters long and had work pits under both tracks and an attached workshop. There was also a smaller, single-track engine shed 33 meters long and one or two stands. This building had a workshop part with an axle recess and also a maintenance pit under the track. Between the two engine sheds was the turntable with a diameter of 16.10 meters. There was also a little office building for the locomotive management and a trolley shed on the premises.

The water supply for steam locomotives was secured by two water cranes of the Württemberg design. The coaling was carried out by a coaling crane on a concrete base, which took the coal from a coal barn.

vehicles

Series of locomotives that used to be at the Calw depot:

The Köf II on the railway depot in Calw

The Köf 4368, stationed in Calw from 1942 to 1980, was acquired in 2006 by the Württembergische Schwarzwaldbahn Calw – Weil der Stadt association and is located on the site of the former railway depot.

Web links

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Coordinates: 48 ° 42 ′ 56.7 "  N , 8 ° 44 ′ 29"  E