Railway depot Ludwigshafen

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The Ludwigshafen depot (short form Bw Ludwigshafen ) is a depot in Ludwigshafen am Rhein , which began in the 1840s as part of the construction of the Palatine Ludwig Railway from Ludwigshafen to Bexbach. Several renovations and new buildings followed in its history. In the course of the electrification of the Mannheim – Saarbrücken railway line, which emerged from the Ludwigsbahn, and the subsequent relocation of the Ludwigshafen main station, however, it lost its importance. It is currently owned by DB Regio Mitte and is primarily responsible for handling rail traffic in the Rhine-Neckar area.

location

The plant's facilities are located in the southern area of Ludwigshafen Central Station and have the address Oscar-Vongerichten-Straße 7b .

history

Beginnings

In the course of the planning of the Palatinate Ludwigsbahn , with the establishment of the Bavarian Railway Company of the Pfalz / Rheinschanz-Bexbacher-Bahn on March 20, 1838, it was determined that the Rheinschanze , from which the city of Ludwigshafen am Rhein developed in the following years, would be the eastern end point of the route should form.

Maintenance systems were installed on site during the construction of the line in 1845 and 1846. Between Ludwigshafen and Neustadt, including the Schifferstadt – Speyer branch , the line opened on June 11, 1847, before the entire line to Bexbach was open on August 25, 1849. The railway network in the Vorderpfalz grew continuously in the following decades. As early as 1853, Ludwigshafen became the southern terminus of the line coming from Mainz , and in 1867 the gap to Mannheim was closed. For this reason, the workshops from the early days had to be given up. For example, a wagon workshop was established in 1872 and a workshop for locomotives in 1895 and 1896. The latter comprised two 32-permanent locomotive sheds. There were also a total of four turntables - two for each locomotive shed - with a diameter of 17 and 23 meters respectively, and a water tower that held up to 100,000 liters.

Further development

During the time of the Palatinate Railways , the plant was, alongside its peers in Kaiserslautern and Neustadt, one of three independent plants in what was then the Palatinate . Later it was also subordinate to the machine inspection - called MI for short - in Ludwigshafen. From 1900 to 1926 express locomotives of the class P 3.I were at home on site.

During the First World War , part of the locomotive personnel 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 .

1920s and 1930s

In 1922 the plant was integrated into the newly established Ludwigshafen Reich Railway Directorate . In 1933, a total of 95 steam locomotives were stationed in it, including those of the 18.4 series . Two years later, the 03 series were also added. In the course of the dissolution of the Ludwigshafen directorate, it changed to the Mainz directorate on April 1, 1937. At that time it had the official abbreviation "Lu" and was subordinate to the Ludwigshafen machine office . Dependencies - then known as locomotive stations - were located in the Speyer stations as well as in Frankenthal and Meckenheim for the narrow-gauge railways to Frankenthal , Großkarlbach and Meckenheim . In addition, during this time it had a vehicle repair shop and was assigned vehicles. In April 1939 it employed more than 600 people and was assigned to category E. In 1941 the number of employees fell to 530 due to the war.

Post-war period (1945–1963)

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. On May 19, 1952, the locomotive stations were redrawn to branch offices. In the 1950s, the depot was assigned three narrow-gauge diesel locomotives of the new class V 29 , with which the line to Meckenheim, which was threatened with closure, was to be saved. The connecting lines to Frankenthal and Großkarlbach had already been closed before the war. Nevertheless, the Meckenheim route suffered the same fate two years later. After one of these locomotives had a brief interlude on the Speyer – Neustadt local railway, which was also closed in 1956 , they were handed over to the Bavarian Walhalla Railway. The era of the accumulator railcars of the DB class ETA 150 in Ludwigshafen was also short-lived . On June 16, ETA 150 005 was assigned to the plant, ETA 150 012 followed on August 14. Both served as a replacement for the two Wittfeld accumulator railcars stationed on site . They were delivered to Worms in September of the following year .

Although the site was spared the wave of railway depot closings that began after the Second World War , it lost its former importance in the period that followed. The electrification of the Mainz – Ludwigshafen railway and the Mannheim – Saarbrücken railway that emerged from the Palatinate Ludwigsbahn played a key role in this around 1960. In the early 1960s, the plant lost the series 01 and 03. The steam locomotive 01 008 , for example, moved to Kaiserslautern.

On December 31, 1962, it housed 31 steam locomotives; In addition, there were a total of 16 diesel locomotives that were used for shunting trips. As early as October 1, 1963, the Neustadt plant was only a branch of its Ludwigshafen counterpart and was completely closed after its locomotives had moved to Ludwigshafen.

Development since the relocation of the Ludwigshafen main station

With the renovation of the Ludwigshafen main station, which began in 1962 and went into operation in 1969, the plant was in fact rebuilt. In the course of the gradual dissolution of the Mainz directorate at the beginning of the 1970s, the plant also moved to the area of ​​responsibility of the Karlsruhe Federal Railway Directorate . In the period that followed, it received class V 160 diesel locomotives , some of them coming from Landau .

Together with its counterpart in Kaiserslautern , it has been one of two remaining railway depots within the Palatinate since the Landau site was closed in the 1980s . From 1986 it was initially exclusively responsible for cars for a period of around a decade and a half. Nevertheless, some electric locomotives of the classes 143 and 146 were stationed at him during this time .

In the course of the opening of the RheinNeckar S-Bahn at the end of 2003, it became home to class 425 multiple units and their 425.2 subtype, which is used for S-Bahn operations . It has also been responsible for the 628 series diesel multiple units since then . The plant is now officially a "depot" of the DB Regio and bears the abbreviation "RL".

operation area

In the first decades of its existence, the plant was responsible for the Palatinate Ludwigsbahn , the branch line to Speyer and between Ludwigshafen and Worms. After the railway network within the Vorderpfalz continued to grow by extending the railway to Speyer in 1864 to Germersheim and in 1876 to Wörth, and additional routes such as the Freinsheim – Frankenthal and Eistalbahn were added, the radius of action increased accordingly. After the latter was extended to Enkenbach in 1932 , the focus there was extended significantly in favor of the Kaiserslautern plant. In addition, from the 1890s onwards it was used to maintain the rolling stock of the narrow-gauge railway network that stretched from Meckenheim via Ludwigshafen and Frankenthal to Großkarlbach.

At the end of the 1950s, its catchment area extended from Karlsruhe via Mainz and Wiesbaden to Dortmund. The routes used included the Winden – Karlsruhe , Schifferstadt – Wörth , Rheydt – Cologne-Ehrenfeld , Duisburg – Dortmund , Alsenz Valley Railway , Palatinate Maximilians Railway , the Left and Right Rhine and Left Lower Rhine lines .

literature

  • 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. ↑ a b c Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 10 .
  2. ↑ bahnstatistik.de: Addresses of railway depots, depots and locations on the territory of the former German Federal Railroad (DB) . Retrieved December 6, 2013 .
  3. ↑ Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 63 .
  4. ↑ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 9 .
  5. ↑ Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 111 .
  6. ↑ kh-anders.de: Railway . Retrieved December 6, 2013 .
  7. ↑ a b bahnstatistik.de: Royal Bavarian Railway Directorate Ludwigshafen a. Rhine - Timeline: Establishments - Designations - Dissolutions . Retrieved December 5, 2013 .
  8. ↑ Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 266 f .
  9. ↑ Michael Heilmann, Werner Schreiner: 150 years Maximiliansbahn Neustadt-Strasbourg . 2005, p. 37 .
  10. ↑ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 10 .
  11. ↑ 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 .
  12. ↑ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 14 .
  13. ↑ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 13 .
  14. ↑ hs-merseburg.de: German Reichsbahn - depots and other departments - as of April 1939 . Retrieved December 6, 2013 .
  15. ↑ a b c bahnstatistik.de: Eisenbahndirektion Mainz - Timeline: erections - numbers - resolutions . Retrieved December 5, 2013 .
  16. ↑ akkutriebwagen.de: Ludwigshafen depot . Retrieved December 6, 2013 .
  17. ↑ 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 6, 2013 .
  18. ↑ 78er.de: Bahn-Internet-Magazin - A small magazine for Internet-Eisenbahn-Fans - Issue 9 - September 2009 . Retrieved December 6, 2013 .
  19. ↑ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 32 f .
  20. ^ Gerhard Hitschler, Marcus Klein, Thomas Gierth: The vehicles and systems of the Neustadt Railway Museum on the Weinstrasse - the museum guide . 2010, p. 9 .
  21. ↑ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 28 .
  22. ↑ 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 .
  23. ^ Bahnbetriebswerk-13.de: Vehicle portrait Krupp 4647 . Retrieved December 6, 2013 .
  24. ↑ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 9 f .
  25. ↑ schrankenposten.de: The history of the Eistalbahn Grünstadt - Enkenbach . Retrieved December 6, 2013 .
  26. ↑ db58.de: »Adieu Pfalz - last 03.10 schedule« . Retrieved December 6, 2013 .

Coordinates: 49 ° 28 ′ 19.7 "  N , 8 ° 25 ′ 44.6"  E