Railway depot Hamburg-Rothenburgsort
The Hamburg-Rothenburgsort depot (Bw Hmb-Roth) was built around 1879 by the Berlin-Hamburger-Eisenbahn- Gesellschaft at the same time as the "Berliner Bahnhof" and later Hamburg-Rothenburgsort marshalling yard at its eastern exit.
location
The depot was located in the area where today (2019) the east end of Billstrasse and Billwerder Industriebahn turn north-south, parallel to each other, and the middle part of the Ausschläger Allee south of it and east-west between the S-Bahn station Tiefstack and the bridges of the Berlin-Hamburg long-distance railway over the tracks of the Billwerder industrial railway that cross here diagonally.
Facilities and operations
From the beginning possessed the depot via a 15-position roundhouse with turntable and coal bunker .
Due to its location on one of the busiest railway lines in Germany, the Bw Hmb-Roth quickly developed into an important place of operation for freight trains in the direction of Wittenberge- Berlin and shunting tasks in the Hamburg area.
Prussian steam locomotives dominated the scene until the 1930s . In 1938 brand new class 41 locomotives came to Rothenburgsort, and the Bw was also selected for the first use of the class 50 . After some machines had to be surrendered for military service during the Second World War , the 41 series was completely withdrawn from Rothenburgsort by 1945.
With the establishment of the zone border , the Bw lost its original area of application. Instead, it took over operational services to the north and south. The last Länderbahn mainline locomotives were replaced by the 50 series in the 1950s. In the mid-1960s, the department took over class 82 locomotives from the Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg depot , which increased the scope of shunting services in the Port of Hamburg.
Successor use
With the progressive change in traction, more and more steam locomotives were also parked in Rothenburgsort. In 1972 the Hamburg Federal Railway Directorate was "reported steam-free". The last operational steam locomotives of the Hmb-Roth depot ( series 94.2–4 , 94.5–17 and 050–052 ) were relocated to the Lehrte depot . On November 1, 1972, the Hamburg-Rothenburgsort depot was dissolved. The services were taken over by the Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg depot .
The railway associations Arbeitsgemeinschaft Geesthachter Railway , Association of Traffic Amateurs and Museum Railway (VVM) and Friends of the Railway (FdE) have now moved into the locomotive shed . The German Federal Railways planned for 1980 to make the site again. The clubs had to move out again and the buildings of the former Hmb-Roth depot were demolished. It was another ten years before new construction work began.
With the fall of the Iron Curtain at the beginning of the 1990s , long-distance traffic on the route to Berlin also gained in importance again. To separate it from the traffic of the S-Bahn , new tracks were laid. In Rothenburgsort, a railway embankment was poured across the site of the former depot and a branch of the long-distance line was passed over it, so that nothing can be seen of the facilities of the Hamburg-Rothenburgsort depot today.
vehicles
Series of locomotives at the Hamburg-Rothenburgsort depot: