Railway depot Hamburg-Eidelstedt

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ICE depot Hamburg-Eidelstedt from the side (2019)
Aerial view (2016) of the ICE depot Hamburg-Eidelstedt

The Hamburg-Eidelstedt depot (short: AE ) was originally a depot for freight locomotives at the marshalling yard in Hamburg-Eidelstedt and was built with this in 1922. A ring locomotive shed from this time is still in operation. After the Maschen marshalling yard went into operation in 1977 , it was planned to abandon it, but because a depot was needed for ICE multiple units, it was expanded.

For this purpose, the roundhouse was prepared to accommodate the locomotives and railcars for long-distance traffic , since the Hamburg-Altona depot was abandoned in 1982. The depot is home to all 145 locomotives of the 101 series , traction vehicles that are used in particular in long-distance traffic, the 59 multiple units of the ICE 1 and the units of the diesel-electric ICE TD .

The plant is to become the lead plant for the maintenance of the ICE 4 . All maintenance levels on the 100 planned multiple units are to be processed there. 60 million euros are to be invested in the modernization by the end of 2020. The new construction of a corresponding hall was approved in April 2020.

history

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In the preliminary planning for a new ICE depot to be built, Munich and Hamburg were discussed as locations. In April 1987, the board of the then Deutsche Bundesbahn decided to build the depot in Hamburg that was necessary for ICE operations. The foundation stone was laid on October 20, 1988 in the presence of 1000 Eidelstedt citizens. The topping-out ceremony was celebrated on September 27, 1989.

Together with the plant, an external cleaning system was built through which the trains can drive under their own power. The planned construction costs amounted to about 200 million D-Marks ; around 12 million D-Marks had been earmarked for environmental protection measures. In addition, one of the first series electronic interlockings in Germany was built to control switches and signals outside the new systems .

The Hamburg Chamber of Architects awarded the ICE depot as building of the year 1990 .

At the end of April 1990, the 401 005 was the first ICE-1 powered end car to reach the plant. It was used for adapting the new maintenance hall. The official commissioning took place on September 22, 1990. At the end of 1990 trial operations began on two of eight tracks. A total of 300 million Deutschmarks (prices before 1991) were invested. At the opening, 730 people worked in the plant, including 410 cleaning staff, 130 metal workers, 150 employees for the data processing technology of the trains and 40 engineers and managers. The new building was equipped with state-of-the-art technology with an underfloor lathe and hovercraft for exchanging bogies .

In 2016, around 480 employees worked in the plant. To commence ICE operations, trains on the first ICE line were scheduled to stop at the Hamburg-Eidelstedt depot for one hour at a scheduled turnaround time of 109 minutes at the Hamburg-Altona station. A new maintenance concept for the ICE was developed in order to be able to carry out the necessary checks after around 2000 kilometers.

ICE maintenance

ICE depot (south side)

In the ICE hall, which is 430 meters long, 65 meters wide and is connected to the track network on both sides, up to eight ICE full trains with up to two power cars and 14 cars can be serviced at the same time. The hall is divided into a 349-meter-long and 59-meter-wide area for handling the intermediate cars and the adjoining 36.5-meter-long and 65-meter-wide areas for the power cars at both ends.

The ICE depot was built on the site of the former Hamburg-Eidelstedt marshalling yard and is around 8 km from Hamburg-Altona train station.

Maintenance takes place on three working levels:

  • Underground work is carried out 2.40 meters below the rails on steel supports. Individual bogies can be removed from the stationary train on 56 track bridges. An exchange is possible within ten minutes using hovercraft.
  • On the middle level, 3.60 meters above the hall floor, the wagons are supplied and waste and sewage are disposed of.
  • From the third working level, 6.20 meters above the ground or 3.80 meters above the tracks, the pantographs and other equipment on the roof of the trains are serviced. In the area of ​​the two power cars, the overhead line is supported on 28 meter long bridge girders and can be lifted out if necessary.

In addition, there is a car wash for the trains in the outside area, which the multiple units pass under their own power.

Up to 70 employees work on a multiple unit at the same time.

A wheelset diagnosis system was installed in the north-western approach. At a crossing speed of up to 5 km / h, wheels could be checked for cracks and crumbling and the wheel profile and concentricity (also with regard to flat spots ) measured. In addition, among other things, an underfloor wheelset lathe was set up, which enables the machining of drive wheel sets when installed.

A washing facility with a length of 212 meters is attached to the plant. When cleaning ICE 1 trains, the rear power car first pushes the otherwise unpowered train as it passes through. After passing the front head, it pulls the train. A wash trip takes 20 minutes.

With 16 kilometers of track and 60 switches, the plant was dimensioned so that all 41 ICE 1 trains of the first series can be serviced. With the commissioning of the second ICE 1 series (19 multiple units), part of the smaller work was transferred to the new ICE depot in Munich .

For the maintenance of the ICE, defects and fault reports are communicated to the depot at an early stage by remote data transmission , so that all work preparations and material supplies can be scheduled and prepared before moving into the plant, thereby keeping downtime as short as possible.

In 2018, it was planned to hire 150 new employees so that in the future they could regularly bring trains to the plant for 48 hours and work through them much more thoroughly than before.

In December 2019, DB Fernverkehr applied for planning approval for an expansion of the plant. On April 9, 2020, the authorities approved the construction of a new lightweight hall for the ICE 4 in Eidelstedt.

See also

literature

  • The gateway to the new railway. ICE depot Hamburg - with high-tech into the next millennium. Ernst-Kabel-Verlag, Hamburg 1991, ISBN 3-8225-0162-X .
  • Wolfgang Klee: Eisenbahn Journal special 5/97: Railways in Hamburg ISBN 3-89610-020-3 , pp. 48-50.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Start of a new era . In: DB World . No. October 10 , 2016, p. 12 .
  2. ↑ Reconstruction of the plants in Langenfelde and Eidelstedt in Hamburg . In: Electric Railways . tape 116 , no. 8-9 , 2018, ISSN  0013-5437 , p. 338 .
  3. ↑ a b Planning approval according to § 18 Abs. 1 AEG i. V. m. Section 74 (6) VwVfG for the project “New construction of a lightweight hall in the ICE plant” in the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Hamburg-Eidelstedt, railway km 8.200 on the 1220 Hamburg-Altona - Kiel route. (PDF) In: eba.bund.de. Federal Railway Office, April 9, 2020, p. 13 f. , accessed on April 13, 2020 .
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g Horst J. Obermayer: Treatment and maintenance of the multiple units InterCityExpress . In: Herrmann Merker (Ed.): ICE - InterCityExpress at the start . Hermann Merker Verlag, Fürstenfeldbruck 1991, ISBN 3-922404-17-0 , pp. 52-55.
  5. ↑ a b c d News Foundation stone laid for InterCity Express depot . In: The Federal Railroad . No. 12, 1988, p. 1192 f.
  6. ↑ Without an author: The further plans of the Neue Bahn . In: Bahn-Special , Die Neue Bahn . No. 1, 1991, Gera-Nova-Verlag, Munich, p. 78 f.
  7. ↑ Peter Münchschwander (Ed.): The high-speed system of the German Federal Railroad . R. v. Decker's Verlag G. Schenk, Heidelberg 1990, ISBN 3-7685-3089-2 , p. 131.
  8. ↑ Annual review 1991 of the Deutsche Bundesbahn . In: The Federal Railroad. Vol. 68, Issue 1, January 1992, ISSN  0007-5876 , p. 54.
  9. ↑ Jürgen Prem: The first steps - news from the ICE . In: The locomotive review . 22 vol., Issue 129, July / August 1990, ISSN  0170-379X , pp. 42-44.
  10. ^ Georg Wagner: InterCityExpress - The star trains in long-distance transport of the DB . EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2006, ISBN 3-88255-361-8 , p. 8.
  11. ↑ a b c Report of trial operation started in the ICE depot Hamburg-Eidelstedt . In: The Federal Railroad. Issue 9, November 1990, p. 1128 f.
  12. ↑ according to information from Helge Agger, manager of the ICE workshop, during a visit in April 2016
  13. ^ Deutsche Bundesbahn, Bundesbahndirektion Hamburg (ed.): New construction of ICE depot Hamburg . Six page brochure, June 1989.
  14. ↑ Maintenance on three levels simultaneously. In: DB Welt , November 2008 edition, p. 2.
  15. ^ Tim Bartz, Gerald Traufetter: Emergency timetable . In: Der Spiegel . No. 47 , 2018, p. 68–71 ( online - November 17, 2018 ).

Coordinates: 53 ° 36 '26 "  N , 9 ° 52' 52"  E