Neustrelitz depot

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The Neustrelitz depot ( Bw Neustrelitz for short , supplemented by the honorary name Erwin Kramer from November 30, 1983 ), known as the Neustrelitz depot between 1994 and 2003 ( Bh Neustrelitz for short ), was used for the maintenance, repair and provision of locomotives and railcars that were in Neustrelitz were stationed or frequented there. It went into operation in the form of a small locomotive depot in 1877 and, with around 1,400 employees, developed into the largest service center in the area of ​​responsibility of the Greifswald Railway Directorate after the Second World War . In the 1990s there was a decline that continued until the change of ownership in 2003. Meanwhile operates the Netinera Group in a train station Neustrelitz designated workshop the maintenance of rolling stock.

history

With the opening of the railway line from Berlin to Neubrandenburg , the Berlin Northern Railway Company built a small locomotive shed in Neustrelitz in 1877, as well as treatment systems for the steam locomotives that run there. In 1890 the plant received a second engine shed.

After the nationalization of the private railway company, the first locomotive shed was expanded in 1892 and on April 1, 1904, the previous locomotive station became a workshop. Nevertheless, the location was of little importance until the 1930s and was one of the smaller offices in the area of ​​the Stettin Railway Directorate (from 1945 to 1990 Greifswald Railway Directorate). The importance of the Neustrelitz depot only increased when the main workshop of the nationalized Mecklenburg-Friedrich-Wilhelm-Eisenbahn was incorporated in 1941 and freight traffic on the Berlin – Neubrandenburg – Stralsund line increased considerably after the Second World War. With the conversion of the two nearby railway depots Waren / Müritz (1969) and Templin (1972) into deployment sites, the importance of the Neustrelitz depot increased further.

The existing facilities could no longer cope with the increased number of tasks and so the Deutsche Reichsbahn decided to build a new workshop hall north of the roundhouse with 12 tracks and a transfer table in front. The costs for this amounted to 65 million marks . After the ceremonial opening was celebrated on October 5, 1973, interim repairs and repairs to damaged diesel locomotives could now also be carried out in Neustrelitz.

With the electrification of the railway lines from Berlin to Rostock and Stralsund at the beginning of the 1990s, the Neustrelitz depot suffered a significant loss of importance. In 1994, when Deutsche Bahn AG was founded, it was converted into a depot and then in 1999 it was assigned to DB Regio AG as a branch. In 2000 the DB Regio AG decided to close the plant soon.

On February 1, 2003, Ostmecklenburgische Bahnwerk GmbH took over the facilities from DB Regio AG. The depot, now known as the Neustrelitz railway works, later became part of the Netinera Group and continues to serve as a workshop for rail vehicles.

Locomotive inventory

The following locomotive inventory was recorded on November 4, 1945:

After the type adjustment in the early 1950s, the series 56 20-29 was replaced by the series 52 in 1955 . 1960 were mainly locomotives of the series 41 and 50 40 based in Neustrelitz. The change in traction began with the introduction of the V 15 20 and V 60 10 in 1962. Two years later, the V 180 series was added, heralding the end of steam locomotives in the Neustrelitz depot. In 1968, the change in traction was finally completed and Neustrelitz was the first depot of the Reichsbahndirektion Greifswald that was steam-free.

The newly added work station Waren / Müritz was home to the 110/112 and 118 series . In Templin, however, the series 105 and 106 2–9 , 106 0–1 and 171/172 were stationed. At this time, locomotives of the series 110/112 and 118, and later also the two series 130 and 132 , came to the Neustrelitz depot .

Job sites

Between 1954 and 1993, the Löwenberg, Rheinsberg (both from 1954), Gransee (from 1967), Waren / Müritz (1969) and Templin (1972) depots belonged to the Neustrelitz depot. Löwenberg and Rheinsberg went to the Templin depot in 1967. The Gransee deployment site was converted into a personnel deployment site in 1970. Templin and Waren / Müritz remained at the Neustrelitz depot after the transformation of the depot on January 1, 1994 and were closed a few years later.

See also

literature

  • Klaus-Jürgen Kühne: Railway depots in the GDR . transpress Verlag, page 2017, ISBN 978-3-613-71549-3 , pages 88-91.

Individual proof

  1. ↑ Workshops of the Netinera Group , accessed on November 11, 2019.
  2. ↑ Lothar Schultz: The time of the steam locomotives in Mecklenburg . Ostseedruck Rostock, 1988, page 72.

Coordinates: 53 ° 22 ′ 5.8 "  N , 13 ° 4 ′ 54"  E