Wedau depot

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The later Wedau depot , initially built as a locomotive workshop, was located in Duisburg - Wedau . It was in operation from 1878 to 1977.

The Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft built the Wedau locomotive workshop on the Troisdorf – Mülheim-Speldorf line in 1878 . The steam locomotives stationed here were initially used to haul trains on this route. After nationalization in 1880, locomotives from Wedau also took over services on other routes in the Royal Railway Directorate in Cologne, on the left bank of the Rhine . With the construction and expansion of the Wedau marshalling yard , the workshop, which was defined as a depot (Bw) from around 1912, was also expanded. The Wedau depot last had two roundhouse sheds , each with its own turntable . In one of the locomotive sheds, the boiler of a steam locomotive could be separated from the chassis or frame by means of an axle recess for maintenance purposes.

According to statistics, 121 freight trains starting in Wedau and 25 stopping to change locomotives were hauled by the Wedau depot with operational locomotives every day in 1935. 60 locomotives and more than 500 employees were assigned to the Wedau depot.

With the electrification of the railway line on the right bank of the Rhine completed in 1962 , a large part of the need for steam locomotives was eliminated , for which the stock of the Bw was reduced to 40 locomotives . The electric locomotives now in use were not serviced in Wedau. The Wedau depot housed steam locomotives almost until the end of the steam locomotive service on the Deutsche Bundesbahn (DB). In February 1977 the last steam locomotive from Wedau was a class 50 locomotive that drove a coke train from Castrop-Rauxel to Wedau. It was also the last scheduled performance of this series in service with the DB.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Freight steam locomotives: Class 42, 44, 50 and 52 of the DB

Coordinates: 51 ° 22 ′ 55.1 ″  N , 6 ° 48 ′ 42 ″  E