Railway depot Worms

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Center above: Rectangular shed of the Worms depot before the 2019 fire

The Worms depot was located in the area of ​​the Worms main station .

Emergence

From August 24, 1853, Worms station had been the southern end of the Hessian Ludwig Railway , before connecting to Ludwigshafen am Rhein in the Palatinate on November 15, 1953. Since the state border between the Grand Duchy of Hesse and the Bavarian Palatinate ran south of Worms , Worms was also a border station . To the south of Worms, the Palatinate Ludwig Railway Company owned the license to operate the railway. The locomotives were changed in Worms. The depot was built in the middle of the 19th century right next to the passenger station in Bahnhofstrasse . It included workshops for the maintenance and repair of railway vehicles, such as a joinery and a locksmith's shop .

In the following decades, some routes were built on the left bank of the Rhine, which were also aimed at Worms. However, the big boost in traffic came when the Rhine Bridge in Worms went into operation at the end of 1901 and with it all passenger traffic on the right bank of the Rhine, directed towards Worms, which until then ended at Rosengarten station , was also introduced into Worms main station. For this purpose, the depot (then: "Machine Office") had to be rebuilt, which has been happening since the end of the 19th century. It now comprised larger workshops, including a larger carpenter's workshop and a larger locksmith's workshop . In addition, it received, among other things, an apprenticeship workshop for machine fitters and an overnight building for train drivers .

When the depot was taken over by the Prussian-Hessian Railway Association after the nationalization of the Hessian Ludwig Railway in 1897, there were 12 locomotive stands in the locomotive shed, there were two turntables and three water cranes in the entire station area . In 1908 a machine inspection was set up.

business

On average the new Bahnbetriebswerk supervised initially 50 steam locomotives , including the series P 8 , T 12 , T 3 , G 8 and G 8.1 . In 1908 accumulator railcars of the Prussian class A (type Wittfeld ) were added. Deutsche Bahn built a new building for the generators that generate the electricity with which the vehicles' batteries were charged. A relief train was stationed here. From 1903 the central disinfection for freight wagons in Rheinhessen , which were used to transport cattle, was located here . She was previously housed in Alzey .

From the construction of the new depot at the end of the 19th century until shortly before the start of the First World War , the Worms depot was increasingly stressed by increasing rail traffic. The Worms depot was responsible for almost all of Rheinhessen and the railway traffic on the right bank of the Rhine to Frankfurt-Goldstein , Bensheim in western Starkenburg and Mannheim. At this time the depot belonged to the Prussian-Hessian Railway Community . In 1914 it had a total of 696 employees. It had branches in Alzey , Gau-Odernheim and Mannheim-Waldhof . The operations office was divided into two parts: Worms I was responsible for railway operations on the left bank of the Rhine for 154 km, while Worms II was responsible for rail traffic on the right bank of the Rhine over a total of 133 km. At that time, the Worms depot looked after 170 locomotives and four railcars .

Towards the end of the Second World War in 1944, 114 locomotives were located here, from a colorful hodgepodge of series that had reached Worms as a result of the war. As a result of the air raid on Worms on March 18, 1945 , large parts of the Worms depot were destroyed. These included the rectangular shed , the roundhouse and the workshops. Only 18 locomotives were still operational after the end of the war. In the following period the depot was rebuilt, so that at the end of the roundhouse, a new rectangular shed and a repair shed stood. In addition, after the construction it had the offices of the engine management, a coaling plant , a water tower and two turntables .

After construction, a motor vehicle workshop also belonged to the depot because the use of accumulator motor vehicles was continued. From the 1950s onwards, the new ETA 150 series (later: 515) was based here. The stock grew to 47 vehicles by 1984. By 1988, the battery-powered railcars were replaced by class 628 diesel railcars .

When the Mainz – Mannheim railway line was electrified in 1957 , the number of steam locomotives in the Worms depot fell to 58. However, despite the electrification in local passenger transport, battery multiple units were mostly in use. In 1967 the last steam locomotive, the 050 472 , left Worms.

On October 1, 1984, the Worms depot lost its independence and became a branch of the Mainz depot. The accumulator railcars, which were still stationed in Worms, were transferred to the Mainz railroad depot, but maintenance of the railcars remained in Worms until January 13, 1989.

Re-use and fire in 2019

Locomotive hall after the fire in 2019 with destroyed vehicles inside

The locomotive hall was sold to an association that placed historic rail vehicles there. After two previous attempts , the shed burned down completely after another fire on November 8, 2019. The roof collapsed and numerous historic vehicles were totaled . Including two locomotives were class E 44 from the stock of the DB Museum , several rail bus - sidecar , another passenger and freight cars and two railcars of Kahlgrund traffic GmbH (VB 165 and VB 167). The offenders, some of whom were young, were caught, and the main offender was sentenced on April 22, 2020 by the Worms District Court to two years' youth imprisonment with previous probation .

Worth knowing

The “Association of German Locomotive Drivers and Stokers” had its seat in Worms. The Prussian Minister for Public Works , the Prussian Railway Minister , didn't like that at all, as the association, because he resided in the Grand Duchy of Hesse , could not be monitored by him.

literature

  • Ralph Häussler: Railways in Worms. From the Ludwig Railway to the Rhineland-Palatinate Clock. Publishing house Stefan Kehl. Hamm (Rheinhessen) 2003. ISBN 3-935651-10-4 , pp. 84-100.
  • schr: Shingle fire in Worms destroys many vehicles . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International 1/2020, p. 8.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ralph Häussler: Railways in Worms - From the Ludwig Railway to the Rhineland-Palatinate Clock . Edition Schwarz & Weiss, ISBN 3-935651-10-4 , p. 84 .
  2. ^ Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (Ed.): Collection of the published official gazettes . Born 1897, Issue No. 16, Appendix C: Overview of the locomotive and water stations , p. 27.
  3. ↑ Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (ed.): Official Gazette of the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz of April 4, 1908, No. 22. Announcement No. 198, p. 223f.
  4. ↑ a b Ralph Häussler: Railways in Worms - From the Ludwig Railway to the Rhineland-Palatinate Clock . Edition Schwarz & Weiss, ISBN 3-935651-10-4 , p. 96 .
  5. ↑ Directory of the stations in the Mainz administrative district where railway Samaritan columns are formed… . In: Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (ed.): Collection of the published Official Gazettes 7 (1903). Mainz 1904. Official Gazette of March 21, 1903. No. 16, pp. 169-172 (171).
  6. ↑ Announcement No. 355, p. 327. In: Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (ed.): Collection of the published Official Gazettes 7 (1903). Mainz 1904. Official Gazette of June 20, 1903. No. 34.
  7. ↑ Ralph Häussler: Railways in Worms - From the Ludwig Railway to the Rhineland-Palatinate Clock . Edition Schwarz & Weiss, ISBN 3-935651-10-4 , p. 86 .
  8. ↑ a b Ralph Häussler: Railways in Worms - From the Ludwig Railway to the Rhineland-Palatinate Clock . Edition Schwarz & Weiss, ISBN 3-935651-10-4 , p. 87 .
  9. ↑ Ralph Häussler: Railways in Worms - From the Ludwig Railway to the Rhineland-Palatinate Clock . Edition Schwarz & Weiss, ISBN 3-935651-10-4 , p. 164 .
  10. ↑ a b Ralph Häussler: Railways in Worms - From the Ludwig Railway to the Rhineland-Palatinate Clock . Edition Schwarz & Weiss, ISBN 3-935651-10-4 , p. 85 .
  11. ↑ Ralph Häussler: Railways in Worms - From the Ludwig Railway to the Rhineland-Palatinate Clock . Edition Schwarz & Weiss, ISBN 3-935651-10-4 , p. 99 .
  12. ↑ Ralph Häussler: Railways in Worms - From the Ludwig Railway to the Rhineland-Palatinate Clock . Edition Schwarz & Weiss, ISBN 3-935651-10-4 , p. 94 .
  13. ↑ Johannes Götzen: On the foot . In: Wormser Zeitung of February 26, 2020, p. 9.
  14. ↑ schr: dandruff .
  15. ↑ Worms: Old locomotive hall burned out - tracks partially blocked , on rheinpfalz.de, accessed on November 9, 2019
  16. ↑ Karl. M. Wirthwein: Lockschuppen arsonist receives suspended sentence . In: Wormser Zeitung of April 23, 2020, p. 9.
  17. ^ Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (Ed.): Collection of the published official gazettes of July 8, 1899. Volume 3, No. 29. Announcement No. 303, p. 229.

Coordinates: 49 ° 38 ′ 32 "  N , 8 ° 21 ′ 35.4"  E