Warburg depot
The Warburg depot was a depot that existed from 1851 to 1959.
history
The first operating facility existed with the opening of the Hessian Northern Railway around 1851. The plant was on the north side of the Warburg train station . With the connection of the other lines, the need for locomotive provision and supply increased, so that a new workshop was soon set up in the south-western area of the freight tracks. In 1907 there was a twelve-room semicircular shed and a wagon workshop.
In the 1920s and 1930s, the engine shed was expanded to 20 stalls and provided with a longer turntable and a second water tower. The car workshop was moved to the north side of the engine shed. As an important junction in east-west traffic, the depot was bombed several times during the Second World War . The locomotive shed lost, among other things, the middle class 8 to 13, which were not rebuilt.
In autumn 1945 the Warburg depot moved from the RBD Kassel to the Wuppertal management . After the border was drawn, the traffic flows increasingly changed to the north-south axes, whereby the relation from Hanover via Hameln and Altenbeken to Kassel became more important and in the following years also often functioned as a diversion route for the direct route via Göttingen.
In May 1950, the Scherfede depot, just a few kilometers to the west, lost its independence and became a Warburg outpost for a short time. In May 1959 the Warburg depot also lost its independence and was subordinated to the Bestwig depot. Initially, however, little changed in terms of locomotive operations, as it was still an important turning point for steam locomotives, primarily from Hagen , Paderborn , Ottbergen and Kassel .
In the course of the electrification of the Kassel - Hamm line, the Warburg train station was subjected to a number of renovations, combined with the first dismantling measures in the Bw area. At the same time, on January 1, 1970, the plant came to the Hanover BD and became a so-called reporting point of the Altenbeken depot. In the mid-1980s, the part of the shed with stands 1 to 7 was demolished, and the turntable a few years later. The remaining shed has been used privately since then.
literature
- Riepelmeier, Garrelt: The Warburg depot (Westf). In: loose-leaf collection “Deutsche Bahnbetriebswerke”. GeraMond-Verlag, Munich undated, 51st amendment
- Eugen Udolph: The railway in Warburg. DGEG, Hövelhof 2015, ISBN 978-3-937189-90-1
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ plan from 1907, mentioned at bahnen-wuppertal.de
Coordinates: 51 ° 29 '38 " N , 9 ° 9' 20.2" E