Railway depot Nuremberg West

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The railway depot Nürnberg West (short Bw Nürnberg West , formerly Bw Nürnberg Hbf or Bw Nürnberg 1 , today also Regio-Werkstatt Nürnberg ) is a depot of the DB Regio Franconia in the west of the city of Nuremberg .

location

The depot is located in the Gostenhof district, Bärenschanze district , on Austraße. It is located north of the Nuremberg – Bamberg railway line and extends roughly between the Rothenburger Strasse stop and the disused Neusündersbühl stop .

history

Former repair shop

As part of the expansion of Nuremberg to become a northern Bavarian traffic junction , the "Betriebswerkstätte Nürnberg Centralbahnhof" ("Centralwerkstätte" for short) was built for Nürnberg Centralbahnhof (today Nürnberg Hbf ) from 1869 between the state railway line Nürnberg- Fürth and Austraße. Partial commissioning took place in 1870 and completion in 1875. The pure construction costs amounted to around four million marks . In the beginning, around 900 employees worked on the approximately 11 hectare site. Their job was to maintain 160 locomotives , 910 passenger cars and 2,100 freight cars every year . There were several locomotive halls with a total of 52 stands, a wagon assembly shop with 48 stands, a boiler forge , a locomotive paint shop, a paint shop for passenger and freight cars, a forge with three steam hammers , a joinery , a foundry and four magazines . The energy for the steam hammers and the building heating was supplied by twelve boilers with a heating surface of 610 square meters. At the beginning of the 20th century, the repair shop reached its capacity limit. Only with the opening of a new repair shop in the Hasenbuck district (near the marshalling yard ) in 1912 did a certain degree of relaxation emerge, as some of the tasks could be handed over there. In 1952, the repair shop in Gostenhof was completely closed by the Deutsche Bundesbahn in favor of the location in the Hasenbuck district.

The site, which was initially fallow , was used as a container terminal from 1968 to 2009 . After its relocation to the Canal Harbor , the Nuremberg Regional Workshop was built on the 130,000 square meter area. The modern workshop facilities were necessary to the maintenance of the new suburban railway multiple units of the type BOMBARDIER TALENT 2 ensure. The first construction phase, an eight-track workshop hall, was built within 16 months and went into operation at the end of 2011. The second construction phase completed the facility in 2013 with facilities for cleaning the inside and outside of trains, an underfloor washing area and an underfloor wheelset lathe (URD). One third of the investment sum of 66 million euros was raised by subsidies from the Free State of Bavaria .

Former depot

The "Mechanical Engineering Department III" was also located on the premises of the Centralwerkstätte. Their facility to the west of the former repair shop comprised two roundhouse sheds with 29 stands each and a 12-meter turntable each . The facility was responsible for the maintenance and repair of around 115 shunting , freight and local railroad locomotives. In 1902, a reorganization of the railway operations in Nuremberg was planned with the aim of reducing the four workshop locations around Nuremberg main station. The construction of the new main train station from 1903 provided a good opportunity for this. Department III on Austraße was expanded in the course of this, and the turntables were enlarged to a diameter of 18 meters. A large supply of coal was used to fire the steam locomotives . The workshop also had its own well . For this purpose, the now superfluous facilities in Departments I and II were torn down. Department III was renamed Bw Nürnberg Hbf . The depot remained the central depot for the Nuremberg passenger locomotives. Expanded in 1929 to include the first halls for multiple units , the depot reached its greatest expansion in 1934 after the halls for electric locomotives and electric multiple units had been put into operation. In 1936 a heating plant was built between the two ring sheds .

During the air raids on Nuremberg during World War II , the Nürnberg Hbf depot was badly damaged in 1945. The right ring shed was destroyed; the remains were torn down, but the tracks and turntable continued to be used as a free area until October 1977. At the end of the 1970s, the tracks on the area of ​​the right ring shed were removed and the pit of the turntable was filled with rubble. The left ring shed was preserved and received a higher roof. The steam locomotive era at the Nürnberg Hbf depot ended as early as 1972. However, until 2013 it retained its function as the home office for electric locomotives and electric multiple units as well as for diesel locomotives and diesel multiple units in passenger service. The organizational reform of the Deutsche Bundesbahn in the technical area now called all electrical and mechanical engineering departments uniformly "Betriebswerke" (Bw) and simply numbered the depots in one place. The former Nürnberg Hbf depot as the most important depot in the city has been run as Nürnberg 1 depot since September 1, 1980 .

Remains of the roundhouse after the major fire of October 2005

With the rail reform of January 1, 1994, the plant was assigned to the DB Regio as the Nuremberg West depot. The left, still existing circular shed was used as a depot for the DB Museum Nuremberg . In a major fire on October 17, 2005 , it was destroyed; in addition, 19 historic locomotives and railcars were destroyed or damaged. The remains of the engine shed were dismantled in June 2006. The depot was replaced in two stages in 2011 and 2013 by the new regional workshop on the site of the former repair shop.

description

The new regional workshop on the grounds of the Nürnberg West depot comprises a 12,000 square meter, eight-track workshop hall with track lengths between 56 and 163 meters. An operating building with ancillary workshops, warehouse, administration and control center as well as an enclosed outdoor cleaning system were built directly adjacent. The site's infrastructure is supplemented by a six-track interior cleaning system for trains up to 180 meters long, a hall with an underfloor washing stand and a hall for the underfloor wheelset lathe (URD). A separate electronic signal box regulates the shunting movements on the site. Around 200 people are employed in the regional workshop. Instead of the old heating plant, the new workshop is supplied with district heating . The total area including the extensive track system is around 130,000 square meters.

The new workshop location replaces the old DB Regio depots in Gostenhof (see above) and Dürrenhof . Today all trains of the Nuremberg S-Bahn are serviced there. The workshop also maintains other trains in the DB Region: the electric locomotive and double-decker cars for the Munich-Nuremberg Express , the electric multiple units for the Franken-Thuringia Express and the diesel multiple units for the Central Franconia Railway .

The former depot west of the Regio workshop was shut down after it was fully commissioned in 2013 and is now idle.

vehicles

The vehicle fleet allocated to the depot and belonging to DB Regio Franken comprises a total of 62 locomotives of the 111 , 143 , 146.2 and 214 series , 64 electric multiple units of the 442 and 27 series of the 1440 series for the Nuremberg S-Bahn and the Franken-Thuringia Express as well 40 diesel railcars of the 642 and 648 series of the third series. The class 610 diesel multiple units were relocated to the Hof depot in 2011 after 20 years and retired at the end of 2014.

In addition to the examination and maintenance of the company's own vehicles, these tasks are also carried out on the 101 series from DB Fernverkehr , 152 , 182 , 185 from DB Cargo and the Dispoloks .

literature

  • Rolf Syrigos: The depot at Nürnberg Hbf. Looking back on over 100 years of traction history . In: Eisenbahn Magazin . tape 44 , no. 2 , 2006, p. 28-31 .

Web links

Commons : Bahnbetriebswerk Nürnberg West  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Railway depot Nürnberg West - former depot Nürnberg Hauptbahnhof, vorm. "Central Workshop" . Online at www.nuernberginfos.de; accessed on May 9, 2020.
  2. ^ Nürnberger Nachrichten of November 30, 2011: Nuremberg: New railway workshop opened in Gostenhof . Online at www.nordbayern.de; accessed on May 9, 2020.
  3. ↑ Nürnberger Nachrichten of November 30th, 2011: Railway workshop in Gostenhof inaugurated . Online at www.nordbayern.de; accessed on May 9, 2020.
  4. ^ Regional workshop in Nuremberg . Online at www.s-bahn-nuernberg.de; accessed on May 9, 2020.
  5. ↑ Rolf Syrigos: Germany Super Regio work . In: eisenbahn-magazin 4/2012, pp. 33–35
  6. ↑ a b Regio-Werkstatt Nürnberg (PDF; 1.49 MB). Online at www.s-bahn-nuernberg.de; accessed on May 9, 2020.
  7. ^ Deutsche Bahn AG, Passenger Transport Division, Marketing eCommerce: Vehicles. Retrieved July 25, 2020 .

Coordinates: 49 ° 27 ′ 7 ″  N , 11 ° 2 ′ 27 ″  E