Railway depot Homburg

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The Bahnbetriebswerk Homburg (short form Bw Homburg ) was a railway depot in Homburg , which existed from 1900 to around 1980. Initially opened as a branch of the Kaiserslautern operating works, it was converted into an independent office in 1904. In 1973 it was converted into a branch of the Saarbrücken railway depot and subsequently closed completely.

location

The depot was located northeast of Homburg Central Station . It included, among other things, two turntables .

history

Beginnings

The Homburg (Palatinate) station, which was built in 1848 as part of the construction of the Palatinate Ludwigshafen- Bexbach railway, had already become a railway junction in 1857 when the Homburg – Zweibrücken railway was opened. In 1900 the decision was made to build a strategic route from Münster am Stein along the Glan via Homburg and from there via Rohrbach , which was opened in 1904. As early as 1900, a workshop was therefore put into operation on site, which formed a branch of the plant in Kaiserslautern and was responsible for the maintenance of freight wagons. In 1909 it became an independent agency; their official name was Betriebsmeisterei Homburg (Pfalz) . In the beginning, T3 locomotives were stationed on site .

Part of the Saar area and subsequent period

As a result of the First World War , the Saar region was formed from the region around Saarbrücken and the western part of the Palatinate - including Homburg . On March 10, 1920, the post, henceforth the Homburg (Saar) works department , was assigned to the management of the Saareisenbahnen , which was responsible for all railway lines in this newly created structure. At that time it housed 36 locomotives, which became the property of the Saareisenbahnen. In the following period, the P2.II (until 1942), G10 , P5 , P8 , T14 and T18 series were stationed in the plant.

At that time it had the official abbreviation "Hm" and was subordinate to the St. Wendel machine office . In St. Ingbert station also existed as a branch a locomotive train station . In addition, during this time the plant had a vehicle repair shop and had been assigned vehicles. In April 1939 it was assigned to category D (200 to 599 employees) according to the number of its employees. In 1941 the number of employees was 540.

task

On December 14, 1945, the plant moved to the machine office in Kaiserslautern, followed by the St. Ingbert locomotive station on March 6 of the following year. In 1946 the area now known as Saarland was again separated from Germany. From then on, the "Saarland Railways (SEB)" - known as the Saarland Railways (EdS) from 1951 onwards - was responsible for the establishment. At the turn of the year 1957/58 the Saarland was annexed to Germany, so the plant became the property of the Deutsche Bundesbahn . On March 2, 1958, all locomotives from Neunkirchen were relocated to Homburg. From May 31st of that year the latter was only a branch of the Homburg office before it was completely dissolved on September 25th, 1966.

In the course of the gradual electrification of the Mannheim – Saarbrücken railway line, which emerged from the Ludwigsbahn, in the period from 1960 to 1964 and the conversion of the neighboring lines to diesel operation, the depot lost its importance. For this reason, it was converted into a branch of its Saarbrücken counterpart with effect from September 30, 1973. In the following years it was completely abandoned.

operation area

The locomotives from the factory were mainly used on the railway lines around Homburg, for example on the Glantalbahn , the Bliestalbahn and along the Mannheim – Saarbrücken railway that emerged from the Ludwigsbahn .

literature

  • Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways on Glan and Lauter . Self-published, Waldmohr 1996, ISBN 3-9804919-0-0 .
  • Albert Mühl: The Pfalzbahn . 1st edition. Konrad Theiß Verlag, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-8062-0301-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 79 .
  2. ^ Albert Mühl: The Pfalzbahn . 1982, p. 27 .
  3. ^ A b Albert Mühl: The Pfalzbahn . 1982, p. 40 .
  4. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 127 .
  5. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 128 ff .
  6. ↑ hs-merseburg.de: German Reichsbahn - depots and other departments . Retrieved December 4, 2013 .
  7. ↑ a b c bahnstatistik.de: Royal Direction of the Saarbrücker Railways - Timeline: Establishments - Designations - Resolutions . Retrieved December 15, 2013 .
  8. ↑ a b kbs-670.de: The course book route 670 - Operation - Deploying railway depot: Works along the route . (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 20, 2013 ; Retrieved December 15, 2013 .

Coordinates: 49 ° 19 ′ 56 ″  N , 7 ° 20 ′ 31 ″  E