Ulm railway depot
The Ulm Railway Depot (abbreviated: Bw Ulm ) is a depot in the city of Ulm in Baden-Württemberg , which consists of several depots at the Ulm main and marshalling yard . The depot of the Ulm marshalling yard, known as Bw Ulm Rbf , and the wagons of the Bw Ulm Hbf to the north of the main station are still in operation today . Two other depots at Ulm Central Station have since been shut down. By 2014, the existing systems were replaced by a new vehicle hall at the marshalling yard.
Until 1920, the Ulm depot belonged to the railway directorate of the Württemberg State Railways , from 1920 to 1949 to the Reichsbahndirektion Stuttgart and from 1949 to 1994 to the federal railway directorate in Stuttgart . The depot is operated by DB Regio and DB Cargo .
Beginnings
On June 1, 1850, the Württemberg Southern Railway from Friedrichshafen to Ulm and the Ulm train station (since 1911: Ulm Hauptbahnhof ) went into operation. With the completion of the Filstalbahn , which led from Stuttgart to Ulm, the first Ulm depot ( Lage ) was opened on June 29, 1850 in the west of the Ulm train station. A track connection led from track 3 of the station to a turntable opposite the Ulm station building , from which four parallel tracks each led to the locomotive shed in the north and to the wagon depot in the south. The tracks leading through the shed were combined with switches behind and inserted into the north and south of the station. This made it possible to drive directly into the locomotive shed from Stuttgart and directly into the wagon shed from Friedrichshafen.
Depot Ulm of the Bavarian State Railways
With the opening of the Bavarian Maximiliansbahn , which connected Ulm with Munich , on June 1, 1854, the Royal Bavarian State Railways also needed a depot. This was built by Württemberg according to a state treaty of April 25, 1850 and operated by the Bavarian State Railways. The operating station located in the southwest of the station Ulmer ( location ) consisted of a rectangular Wagenremise with 13 parallel tracks in the south, a rectangular engine shed with eight parallel tracks and a west workshop grown in the north and an intermediate shift stage . From the locomotive shed, three tracks led north to a turntable from which there was a connection to the station tracks. As the capacity of the depot was no longer sufficient with increasing traffic, the Bavarian State Railways decided in 1868 to build a new depot in the neighboring Bavarian town of Neu-Ulm , which was opened on February 15, 1871. The locomotives of the Bavarian Maximiliansbahn and the Illertalbahn , which opened in 1862, were then relocated to Neu-Ulm.
As a result, the Ulm depot was no longer needed by the Bavarian State Railways and from then on used by the Royal Württemberg State Railways for the parking and repair of wagons. As goods traffic increased at Ulm train station, wagonload traffic was relocated to the west side of the train station in 1874 and 1875. The former Bavarian depot had to be demolished in order to build loading ramps at this point .
Depot Ulm Hbf
With the increase in traffic, the operating facilities of the Royal Württemberg State Railways were no longer sufficient. Thus, between 1868 and 1871, a new depot was built for the locomotives in the north of the Ulm train station in the triangle between the Filstalbahn and the line to Sigmaringen, which is now known as the Ulm Hbf . It consisted of two roundhouse with turntables in the west and east and a rectangular shed in the middle. The old depot in the west of the station was then torn down. With the start of electrical operation in May 1933, the rectangular shed was used for electric locomotives and the new catenary maintenance facility. In 1935, a filling station for diesel vehicles was set up in the west of the depot, which existed until 1978. During the Second World War, the facilities were destroyed, the two roundhouse and the treatment facilities for steam locomotives were not rebuilt. The preserved turntable of the western roundhouse was used until 1952 and then dismantled, while the destroyed eastern turntable was not restored. The rectangular electric locomotive shed equipped with five pit tracks was rebuilt. In 1950, a heating plant was built in the northeast of the depot to supply the Ulm Hbf and the reception building at the main station and to preheat the passenger coaches. After the war, the employees of the works had to be temporarily housed in barracks until a new building was built in 1976, in which there were classrooms and social rooms. 1958 electric locomotives to have Kornwestheim and Stuttgart umbeheimatet and the roundhouse from now as a workshop for shunting the 60 V range used. In 1968 the diesel locomotive workshop was relocated to the depot of the Ulm Bw Ulm Rbf marshalling yard . After that, the locomotive shed was used as a parking space for electric locomotives and for small maintenance or repair work on them. In the course of the construction of the new Wendlingen – Ulm line , the engine shed was demolished in early 2016.
After the depot in 1850 was demolished in 1871, the former depot of the Bavarian State Railways was used to park and repair the wagons. As this was demolished in the years 1874 and 1875 for the construction of loading docks, the Württemberg State Railways built in the northwest of Ulm station new car shed and sidings ( location ) . The wagon factory was destroyed in the Second World War. After temporary makeshift buildings had been erected, a modern wagon hall with four continuous pit tracks was built in 1967 and 1968. This also contained workshops, social rooms and offices. In order to be able to guide freight cars from the marshalling yard to the depot, a connecting track to the marshalling yard was built. To the east of the car shed, a car wash track was set up to clean the outside of the passenger trains and railcars, which was re-equipped in 1996.
Bw Ulm Rbf
Between 1903 and 1911, the Ulm marshalling yard was built in the west of the city south of the Ulm – Sigmaringen railway line . For the freight train and shunting locomotives, a new depot was built within the marshalling yard ( Lage ) from 1910 to 1912 , which was designated as Bw Ulm Rbf . This consisted of two roundhouse with turntables, a large coaling plant with weighing bunker, a purification plant , a workshop and an administration and social building. The depot Ulm Rbf was affiliated to the depot Ulm Hbf as an operating part. During the Second World War , the Ulm Rbf depot was almost completely destroyed in an air raid on September 13, 1944. The depot was rebuilt after the war. Three roundhouse with turntables were built in which the steam locomotives were grouped. The tracks of turntables 1 and 3 are only partially covered by roundhouse 1 and 3, so the remaining tracks are in the open. Only the 16 tracks of the 21.5 meter long turntable 2 all lead into the roundhouse 2. In 1956, the rigid turntable 2 was converted into an articulated turntable and the load capacity increased from 150 to 200 tons. In 1957 a locomotive washing facility was set up in locomotive shed 2. Until the construction of a new administration and social building in 1959 and 1960, the administration was also located in the roundhouse. From 1968 diesel locomotives of the 216 series were located in the Ulm Rbf depot. Since there was enough space with the reduction in the number of steam locomotives, diesel locomotive maintenance was relocated from the main station to the Rbf station. There have been no more steam locomotives in Ulm since 1976 . Locomotive repairs are mainly carried out in locomotive shed 2. In 1990 locomotive shed 2 was renovated, with a new roof and roller doors with large glass windows. Flue pipes were installed above the shed tracks in order to be able to guide the exhaust gases from the diesel locomotives out of the shed. In 1992 the rigid 18-meter-long turntable 1 was replaced by an articulated turntable of the same size.
From 1997 onwards, the Ulm Rbf depot, which had previously mainly housed class 215 locomotives , became an important home base for the DB class 218 . In 2013, 22 diesel locomotives of the 218 series are based in Ulm, 15 of which are in use as planned. The DB ZugBus Regionalverkehr Alb-Bodensee (RAB) mainly uses the locomotives in front of the IRE trains on the southern line from Stuttgart or Ulm via Friedrichshafen to Lindau . In addition, the diesel locomotives pulling the Intercity - train pairs Allgäu from Stuttgart to Oberstdorf , Nebelhorn from Augsburg to Oberstdorf and 118/119 from Ulm to Lindau.
In contrast to the other Ulm depots, the Bw Ulm Rbf has no road access and can only be reached by rail. Pedestrian access exists from the Beringer Bridge spanning the marshalling yard.
| turntable | Construction year | Length in m |
Load capacity in t |
Shed tracks | of it in the shed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1992 | 18th | 140 | 13 | 3 |
| 2 | 1913 | 21.5 | 200 | 16 | 16 |
| 3 | 1959 | 23 | 16 | 6th |
future
As part of the Stuttgart 21 project and the new Wendlingen – Ulm line , parts of the Stuttgart depot are to be relocated to Ulm. For this purpose, a new workshop is being built in Ulm on the site of the marshalling yard west of the Beringer Bridge. It will consist of a 230-meter-long, two-track hall for entire train sets, a 125-meter-long three-track hall for diesel multiple units, an underfloor cleaning hall and an administration and social building. In a further complex, a 90 m long outdoor cleaning system with four washing systems and a 60 m long hall for manual cleaning, such as the removal of graffiti damage, are being built. About six kilometers of track will be laid as a parking facility. The whole measure will cost around 125 million euros. Around 150 locomotives, including electric locomotives, and 180 passenger coaches will be based there. The 111, 143 and 146.2 series are added to the existing vehicles from the 218, 364/365, 611, 628 and 650 series. The system is managed as a FIBA (vehicle maintenance, treatment and parking system).
In 2011, the southern tracks of the marshalling yard were demolished and the area searched for aircraft bombs from the Second World War, although no bombs were found. As a result, construction work on the workshop began in December 2011. The topping-out ceremony for the hall took place on August 9, 2012. Completion took place in November 2013.
After the completion of the workshop, the no longer needed facilities of the Ulm Rbf depot, including two of the three roundhouse sheds, as well as the still existing electric locomotive hall and the wagon factory of the Ulm Hbf depot will be shut down and demolished. The current wagon workshop at the main station will be converted into a diesel locomotive workshop.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Wolfgang Stoffels: The Bw Ulm. 150 years of workshops, rail vehicles and technical systems . Ek-Verlag, Freiburg 2000, ISBN 3-88255-449-5 , p. 10 .
- ↑ Wolfgang Stoffels: The Bw Ulm. 150 years of workshops, rail vehicles and technical systems . Ek-Verlag, Freiburg 2000, ISBN 3-88255-449-5 , p. 17 .
- ↑ Wolfgang Stoffels: The Bw Ulm. 150 years of workshops, rail vehicles and technical systems . Ek-Verlag, Freiburg 2000, ISBN 3-88255-449-5 , p. 10-12 .
- ↑ Wolfgang Stoffels: The Bw Ulm. 150 years of workshops, rail vehicles and technical systems . Ek-Verlag, Freiburg 2000, ISBN 3-88255-449-5 , p. 13 .
- ↑ Wolfgang Stoffels: The Bw Ulm. 150 years of workshops, rail vehicles and technical systems . Ek-Verlag, Freiburg 2000, ISBN 3-88255-449-5 , p. 111-113 .
- ^ A b Wolfgang Stoffels: The Bw Ulm. 150 years of workshops, rail vehicles and technical systems . Ek-Verlag, Freiburg 2000, ISBN 3-88255-449-5 , p. 18-22 .
- ↑ Series 218 . In: Railway courier . EK special, no. 109 , 2013, p. 25 .
- ↑ Series 218 . In: Railway courier . EK special, no. 109 , 2013, p. 58-61 .
- ↑ Südwest Presse Ulm: The railway is building new workshop and cleaning systems ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) , October 12, 2010
- ↑ railway magazine 10/2013, p. 31
- ↑ Südwest Presse Ulm: Major construction site on the site of the marshalling yard ( memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) , December 15, 2011
- ↑ Südwest Presse Ulm: New workshop for locomotives in Ulm , August 10, 2012
- ↑ Südwest Presse Ulm: Railway plant completed , November 29, 2013
Coordinates: 48 ° 24 ′ 16.1 ″ N , 9 ° 58 ′ 57.3 ″ E