Kaiserslautern railway depot

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The Bahnbetriebswerk Kaiserslautern (short form Bw Kaiserslautern ) is a depot in Kaiserslautern that has existed since the 1840s. It is currently responsible for diesel railcars for DB Regio Mitte. These include the series 622 and 623 diesel multiple units ( Alstom LINT ), which are used in the southwest diesel network, and some 628 and 643 series multiple units are based in Kaiserslautern.

location

Railway depot systems at the top left of the picture

The depot is located immediately northwest of the main station, not far from the tracks for the Lautertalbahn trains .

history

Beginnings

In the course of the planning of the Palatinate Ludwig Railway , it was decided at an early stage that it should lead via the Barbarossa city of Kaiserslautern. On July 2, 1848, the Homburg - Kaiserslautern section was finally opened. Maintenance systems had already been set up on site two years earlier to maintain the steam locomotives and wagons. These were located directly at the station building of the KaiserlautererBahnhof, which was demolished in 1879. The complex included a brick shed, among other things. There was also an eight- horse -power steam engine in the factory that powered lathes, a fan, and other machines. After just a few years, the workshop had to be enlarged.

In 1879, the first maintenance systems were replaced by a larger plant, as the old depot had reached the limits of its capabilities due to the opening of further railway lines in the city's catchment area such as the Alsenz Valley Railway , the Donnersberg Railway , the Zellertal Railway, the Kaiserslautern – Enkenbach and Landstuhl – Kusel railway lines . In 1908 a total of 650 people were employed in the plant.

During the time of the Palatinate Railways , the plant was, alongside its peers in Neustadt and Ludwigshafen, one of three independent plants within what was then the Palatinate . In 1900 a branch was set up in Homburg, which was later converted into a separate depot a few years later . Later it was also subject to the machine inspection - abbreviated MI - in Kaiserslautern.

First World War and Deutsche Reichsbahn (1914–1945)

During the First World War , part of the locomotive personnel from Kaiserslautern was transferred to Landau's main train station . This finally prompted the Deutsche Reichsbahn , founded in 1920 , to build a new plant there in 1921 , which was initially a branch of the counterpart in Neustadt.

In 1922 the plant was integrated into the newly established Ludwigshafen Reich Railway Directorate . From the mid-1920s, the depot in Kaiserslautern was rebuilt and completed in 1932. At that time it offered 800 jobs and was responsible for around 120 steam locomotives. Since the Einsiedlerhof marshalling yard had been built west of Kaiserslautern , the depot was primarily responsible for maintaining freight and shunting locomotives.

In 1936 the number of employees rose to 850. In the course of the dissolution of the Ludwigshafen management, it changed to the responsibility of the Saarbrücken management on April 1, 1937. Since the Siegfried Line was built in the Palatinate in the following years , it accommodated 1,100 employees and 170 locomotives. During this time it also had a car repair facility. In April 1941, a locomotive station with a coaling system was built at the Pirmasens main station , which was a branch of the Kaiserslautern depot.

Post-war period (1945–1970)

The German Federal Railways was divided the work after the Second World War in the Bundesbahndirektion Mainz one, who the entire rail network within the newly created state of Rhineland-Palatinate allotted. Due to the Kaiserslautern Military Community that emerged in the following years, it was also responsible for the maintenance of locomotives that served troop trains. In addition, it received four railcars of the VT 08 series , which functioned exclusively as hospital trains for the United States Army and which were nicknamed "Tripper Express". Further modernizations took place in the following decades. Although it was spared the wave of railway depots closed after the Second World War , its facilities were significantly reduced in the period that followed. The electrification of the Mannheim – Saarbrücken railway line, which emerged from the Ludwigsbahn, played a key role in this from the early 1960s.

The remaining routes in its catchment area were increasingly converted to diesel operation at the same time. In early 1958 it received its first diesel locomotive in the form of a class V 60 . On December 31, 1962 it housed 93 steam locomotives, including ten of the P 10 series ; In addition, there were a total of two Wittfeld accumulator railcars , five class V 60 diesel locomotives, which were used for shunting, and four hospital railcars.

In 1966 the plant was assigned class 152 locomotives , which remained the only electric locomotives ever to be located there. They were intended to counteract the loss of jobs that arose as a result of the end of steam operations. They were withdrawn again in August 1972. On May 28, 1967, a class V 200 diesel locomotive was relocated from Limburg to Kaiserslautern. At this point in time, the turntables had already been dismantled in the factory.

End of steam operation and more recent development (since 1971)

In the course of the gradual dissolution of the Mainz management at the beginning of the 1970s, its counterpart in Saarbrücken was again responsible for the depot with effect from August 1, 1971. In 1973 the four hospital railcars were also retired. On September 26, 1975, steam trains left the depot for the last time, the main focus of which had last been in the North Palatinate Uplands . On this day, a class 051 locomotive was initially used for the 4420 passenger train on the Lautertalbahn, while on the way back it took over the 64347 local goods train .

In 1990 the depot was also responsible for providing the locomotives for the removal of the Lindwurm campaign . For this it received locomotives from the Federal Railway Directorates in Karlsruhe, Munich and Nuremberg.

Together with its counterpart in Ludwigshafen , it has been one of two remaining railway depots within the Palatinate since the Landau site was closed in the 1980s .

The plant is now officially a "depot". On July 4, 2000 diesel multiple units of the 612 series were stationed in it, which operated between Neustadt and Karlsruhe until 2009. It currently houses those from the 643 series .

operation area

In the first decades of its existence, the plant was exclusively responsible for the Palatinate Ludwig Railway. With the gradual expansion of the Palatinate railway network, routes in the north and west of the Palatinate were added, for example the Alsenz Valley Railway, the Homburg – Zweibrücken , Landau – Zweibrücken , Landstuhl – Kusel Railway, the Lautertal Railway, the Glantal Railway, the Biebermühl Railway , which was completed in 1913 , the Bachbahn and the Lampertsmühle-Otterbach – Otterberg railway . After the Eistalbahn Grünstadt – Eisenberg, which opened in 1876, was tied through to Enkenbach, the focus there, which was previously in Ludwigshafen and Neustadter hands, shifted significantly in favor of the Kaiserslautern plant.

At the end of the 1950s, its catchment area extended from Saarbrücken via Bingerbrück and Frankfurt to East Hesse. Among the routes worked included not only those within the Palatinate, among others, the Nahe Valley Railway , the Kinzig Valley Railway , the Main Railway which Riedbahn, the railways Hanau-Frankfurt and Gau Algesheim-Bad Kreuznach .

literature

  • Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2008, p. 30–36 ( online (PDF; 4.1 MB) [accessed December 4, 2013]).
  • Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways (= publications of the Palatinate Society for the Advancement of Science. Volume 53). New edition. pro MESSAGE, Ludwigshafen am Rhein 2005, ISBN 3-934845-26-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ suedwest-sound.de: Event Facts: Train baptism DB-Regio . (PDF) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 3, 2013 ; Retrieved December 2, 2013 .
  2. ↑ a b c Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 9 .
  3. ↑ Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 97 .
  4. ↑ a b c Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 31 .
  5. ↑ a b Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 10 .
  6. ↑ a b bahnstatistik.de: Royal Bavarian Railway Directorate Ludwigshafen a. Rhine - Timeline: Establishments - Designations - Dissolutions . Retrieved December 5, 2013 .
  7. ↑ Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 266 f .
  8. ↑ Herbert Dähling: What once rolled over the Maxbahn. Attempt to get an overview of traction vehicles and dare on the anniversary route . In: Model and Railway Club Landau in der Pfalz e. V. (Ed.): 125 years of Maximiliansbahn Neustadt / Weinstrasse-Landau / Pfalz . 1980, p. 141 .
  9. ↑ a b c d Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 32 .
  10. ↑ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 13 .
  11. ↑ a b bahnstatistik.de: Royal Direction Saarbrücken railways - Timeline: erections - names - resolutions . Retrieved December 5, 2013 .
  12. ↑ queichtalbahn.beepworld.de: Zeitchronik1874-1949 . (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 10, 2013 ; Retrieved December 5, 2013 .
  13. ↑ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 19 .
  14. ↑ 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 November 28, 2013 .
  15. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 141 .
  16. ↑ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 33 .
  17. ↑ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 33 f .
  18. ^ Fritz Engbarth: 100 years of the Kaiserlsautern-Pirmasens railway connection . 2013, p. 21 .
  19. ↑ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 28 .
  20. ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 61 .
  21. ↑ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 35 .
  22. ↑ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 41 .
  23. ↑ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 9 f .
  24. ↑ akeson.de: The first planned missions of the "Regio-Swinger" (series 612), from July 4th, 2000 . Retrieved December 3, 2013 .
  25. ^ Fritz Engbarth: 100 years of the Kaiserlsautern-Pirmasens railway connection . 2013, p. 20th ff .
  26. ↑ schrankenposten.de: The history of the Eistalbahn Grünstadt - Enkenbach . Retrieved December 6, 2013 .
  27. ↑ Route plan of the BR 39 of the Kaiserslautern depot, winter 1957. db58.de:, accessed on December 6, 2013 .

Coordinates: 49 ° 26 ′ 10.4 "  N , 7 ° 45 ′ 55"  E