Railway depot Wernigerode Westerntor
The depot Wernigerode Westerntor , Bw Wernigerode Wt for short , is a depot of the Harzer Schmalspurbahnen GmbH (HSB) in Wernigerode (Saxony-Anhalt).
The plant was built in 1899 when the Nordhausen-Wernigeroder Railway Company (NWE) was founded. In 1949 the Deutsche Reichsbahn (DR) then took over the operation of the narrow-gauge railways in the Harz Mountains and thus also the management of the Wernigerode depot. In the early 1950s, the DR began to modernize the now outdated inventory of former NWE locomotives and procured the more powerful new-build steam locomotives of the class 99.23-24 that are characteristic of the Harz narrow-gauge railways today .
Harzer Schmalspurbahnen GmbH (HSB) has been running the entire route network since 1993 . She is the owner of the Wernigerode depot and all of the locomotives located there.
The Bw Wernigerode Westerntor is now home to all HSB vehicles; In addition to the 17 new steam locomotives (not all operational), these include the two standard locomotives , 99 7222 and 99 6001 , and the historic Mallet steam locomotives that haul the HSB special trains, as well as ten railcars and twelve diesel locomotives.
The Wernigerode Westerntor depot includes the Nordhausen and Wernigerode locations for the Harzquerbahn and Gernrode for the Selketalbahn . The Benneckenstein and Hasselfelde deployment sites are no longer in operation with the start of the 1992 summer schedule.
See also
- Harz Narrow Gauge Railways for a complete inventory list
literature
- Matthias Bethke, Wolfgang Finke, Hans Schweers: The vehicles of the Harz narrow-gauge railways. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2003, ISBN 3-89494-120-0
- Dirk Endisch: The Wernigerode Westerntor depot. Dirk Endisch, Stendal 2009, ISBN 978-3-936893-51-9
Coordinates: 51 ° 50 ′ 4 ″ N , 10 ° 46 ′ 46 ″ E