Railway depot Lübeck
The Lübeck depot was a depot of the BD Hamburg which was assigned to the DB Regio after the rail reform .
history
1908 to 1994
In 1908, the Lübeck-Büchener Eisenbahn (LBE) started operating a new depot for its 90 locomotives, the Lübeck Hauptbahnhof . It had a rectangular and a roundhouse. The Eutin-Lübeck Railway built another rectangular shed . The roundhouse with turntable, social building and water tower was built to the right of the southern approach tracks. The rectangular shed was created between the entry and exit tracks, as an extension of the storage group. The rectangular hall was connected to the roundhouse by a pedestrian tunnel.
With the nationalization of the LBE in 1938, the agency came to the Deutsche Reichsbahn (DR). In addition, the DR took over 71 steam locomotives and four small locomotives, which also remained at home in Lübeck. In 1941 the ELE was also nationalized. This also brought their locomotive sheds and another ten locomotives to the DR.
During the Second World War , most of the locomotives found their home in other depots with similar locomotives and were replaced by formerly Prussian and standard locomotives. From then on, locomotives of the series 24, 38.10, 41, 50, 78, 93 and 94 were at home in Lübeck. In addition, Lübeck was Wende-BW for locomotives of the series 01, 01.10 and 03.
The depot survived the Second World War largely undamaged.
In 1957 the first V 60 series diesel locomotives arrived. After locomotives of the series V 100.20, V 200.1 and V 160, including pre-series locomotives, had been assigned to the depot, the steam locomotive maintenance was completely discontinued from 1965 (up to then mainly series 38.10 and 78, as Wendeloks even Bebraer 01.10 and the two 10 series appeared here on).
In the mid-1960s, it was one of the first Deutsche Bundesbahn (DB) depots to be completely dieselized. This had mainly to do with the commissioning of the Vogelfluglinie in 1963, whose train transport was fully adapted to diesel locomotives. The Puttgarden depot was built for this purpose and took over the shunting tasks there with the V 65. From January 1, 1982, the Puttgarden depot was run as a branch of the Lübeck depot. The Puttgarden branch maintained 75 passenger coaches. The maintenance and repair of the shore-side equipment of the ferry terminal was also subject to the M-Group of the Lübeck depot. The machine groups of the Bahnbetriebswerke were responsible for the maintenance of all machine and electrotechnical facilities in their respective district. These included rail scales, turntables, transfer platforms, tank systems, heating plants and the like. In the course of time, other external and reporting points were: Lübeck Hauptbahnhof (for organizational reasons), Büchen, Ratzeburg, Eutin, Bad Oldesloe and Hamburg Hauptbahnhof (only when the Bws were assigned to DB Regio).
Major modifications were made for the conversion. The track connections between the roundhouse and the turntable were dismantled in 1962. The turntable was still needed by the DR steam locomotives of the 23.10, 41 and, more rarely, 62 series, which were turning here, and existed for years after they were replaced by the V 180. Until the end of the 1990s, the semicircular shed served as a warehouse and vehicle workshop. The turntable in front of the rectangular shed gave way to a route in 1965. The southern connection of the rectangular hall via a transfer platform was also replaced by a route. A large diesel filling station was built north of the hall.
In the 1980s, BW Lübeck was discontinued for the V 200.0 series; In addition, extensive renovations were planned by BD Hamburg. The rectangular hall should be renovated and expanded. The former locomotive shed of the Eutin-Lübecker Railway (ELE), the so-called “Schuppen LEU”, was to be demolished. The material warehouse was to be relocated to the rectangular hall (formerly LBE). Furthermore, the construction of an external cleaning system was planned. On June 1, 1985, 585 railway workers were employed in the Lübeck depot. At that time it housed:
- 67 BR 218 locomotives
- 35 BR 211/212 locomotives
- 16 locomotives of the class 260/261
- 27 small locomotives .
There were six tracks equipped with work pits in the rectangular hall for the maintenance and repair of these locomotives. A 160 kN crane was available in the extension built in the early 1980s to swap large components (e.g. diesel engine and turbo transmission). In order to exchange bogies, a hall track in the rectangular hall was also provided with a jack system.
1994 to 2010
With the rail reform, the depot were also restructured. The workshop and operations service was organizationally separated. The individual works are assigned to a division according to the area of application of the locomotives. The Lübeck workshop was assigned to DB Regio AG. The shunting and freight locomotives previously located in Lübeck have been relocated to Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg by DB Cargo and are now also maintained in the new Heimatwerk. The Lübeck plant now only housed class 218 locomotives. Due to the electrification of the Hamburg-Flensburg / Kiel route, the Flensburg depot was abandoned despite its relatively modern equipment. Most of the Flensburg locomotives were relocated to Lübeck. With these new additions, the 218 inventory increased to approx. 130 pieces. The operational area of the Lübeck locomotives continued to extend across Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Lübeck locomotives ran on the Vogelfluglinie, the Marschbahn, to Rostock and Cuxhaven. After the organizational separation of the workshop and operations service, the Lübeck locomotive line was finally closed in 2004. The operational part of the former Lübeck depot was triggered. Lübeck engine driver was now shown in a reporting office of the Kiel deployment site. The reporting point was set up in the former office building of the Lübeck-Büchner Railway directly at the main train station. With the takeover of traffic by other railway companies, e.g. B. on the Hamburg - Cuxhaven route, and the construction of a new workshop in Niebüll, the 218 stock in Lübeck fell again. The field of application of the locomotives was again reduced to the routes starting from Lübeck.
2010 to 2019
With the start of electric train transport on the Hamburg – Lübeck route, the tasks of the workshop have largely been lost. The electric locomotives of the BR 143 / BR 112 are maintained by the Kiel workshop. The Kiel workshop took over the last Lübeck locomotives on June 1, 2010. On May 31, 2010, the last locomotive, 218 407, left the former Lübeck depot. The BR 218 locomotives that remained in Schleswig-Holstein are now being serviced by the workshops in Kiel for DB Regio and Niebüll for DB Fernverkehr. The Kiel plant had previously been extensively expanded and is now responsible for the maintenance and repair of almost all DB Regio Schleswig-Holstein vehicles. Tools and equipment were also brought to Kiel on a service freight train. Nevertheless, the Kiel plant was initially unable to carry out all of the work. Major repair work was carried out by the Braunschweig workshop. The DB Netz AG snow blower was also relocated to Kiel. On May 28, 2010, 10 people were still employed at the Lübeck plant. Since then, the facilities have been largely deserted. The gas station north of the rectangular hall has been replaced by a new, modern gas station south of the rectangular hall on track 118. The former shed of the Lübeck-Eutiner Railway, Schuppen LEU, was used by railway enthusiasts until 2015. The semicircular shed was demolished in August 2019. On parts of the site of the former Lübeck depot and in the area of the former goods handling facility, apartments are to be built by 2023.
literature
- Michael Hecht: Service and deployment. The Lübeck depot . in: Federal Association of German Railway Friends: Conference program 23rd Federal Association Day Lübeck, May 15 to 18, 1980, pp. 29–30.
- Eisenbahnkurier-Verlag series 01.10 and 10
- Federal Railway Directorate Hamburg: Systems of the operating machine service of the Federal Railway Directorate Hamburg - Bw Lübeck . H 32/024 BD Hmb, dated June 1, 1985
- Manfred Traube: Closure after 102 years: The Lübeck depot . in: Eisenbahn Kurier 10/2010, pp. 64–66
