Zweibrücken depot

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The Zweibrücken depot (abbreviated to Bw Zweibrücken ) was a depot that existed from 1914 to 1985 and formed an independent operating point until 1962.

history

Start time

The Zweibrücken train station, which opened in the 1870s and replaced its predecessor from 1857, developed into a railway junction through the commissioning of the Landau – Zweibrücken , Zweibrücken – Saargemünd and Zweibrücken – Brenschelbach railway lines. For this reason, the Royal Bavarian State Railways , which had been under the control of the entire railway network in the Palatinate from January 1, 1909, set up a depot in 1914. This was created in the eastern part of the station. It was subject to the machine inspection - called MI for short - in Kaiserslautern.

In 1922 the plant was integrated into the newly established Ludwigshafen Reich Railway Directorate . In the following decades steam locomotives of the classes 56.20-29 , 93 5 , 94 5 and for a short time the 95 were stationed in the plant. The latter disappeared from the plant in 1946. In the course of the dissolution of the Rbd Ludwigshafener, it changed to April 1, 1937 in the area of ​​responsibility of the Rbd Saarbrücken. At that time it had the official abbreviation "Zw" and was subordinate to the Kaiserslautern machine office . In addition, the plant had been assigned vehicles during this period. In April 1939 it was assigned to category C (75 to 199 employees) according to the number of its employees. In 1941 the number of employees rose to 230 as a result of the war.

Post-war period and task

The newly founded Deutsche Bundesbahn incorporated the plant into the Mainz Federal Railway Directorate , to which it allocated the entire railway network within the newly created federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate . During this time, locomotives from the 86 series were at home in the plant. On September 30, 1962, the plant was given up as an independent operating site and was henceforth just a branch of the Saarbrücken depot .

In the course of the gradual dissolution of the Mainz head office in the early 1970s, its counterpart in Saarbrücken was again responsible for the depot with effect from August 1, 1971.

In 1985 the plant including the two-room locomotive shed was given up completely.

operation area

The operational area of ​​the depot were mainly the routes in and around Zweibrücken, especially the Landau – Rohrbach and Homburg – Zweibrücken railways as well as the Hornbachbahn and the Bliestalbahn . Since the latter and most of the route to Homburg were added to the newly created Saar area in 1920 together with the region west of Zweibrücken , the operational radius was reduced accordingly. Other routes on which locomotives from Zweibrücken were used were the Biebermühlbahn and the railway network northwest of Kaiserslautern in the form of the Glantalbahn , the Lautertalbahn and the Landstuhl – Kusel railway .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 10 .
  2. ↑ From the environment; Railway stations and track systems around Homburg ( Memento from February 4, 2014 in the web archive archive.today )
  3. ↑ a b bahnstatistik.de: Royal Bavarian Railway Directorate Ludwigshafen a. Rhine - Timeline: Establishments - Designations - Dissolutions . Retrieved December 7, 2013 .
  4. ^ A b Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 134 .
  5. ↑ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 14 .
  6. ^ Fritz Engbarth: 100 years of the Kaiserslautern-Pirmasens railway connection . 2013, p. 18 .
  7. ↑ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 13 .
  8. ↑ hs-merseburg.de: German Reichsbahn - depots and other departments . Retrieved December 4, 2013 .
  9. ↑ a b bahnstatistik.de: Royal Direction Saarbrücken railways - Timeline: erections - names - resolutions . Retrieved December 5, 2013 .
  10. ^ A b Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 137 .
  11. ↑ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 32 .
  12. ↑ a b pfaelzer-eisenbahnseiten.homepage.t-online.de: Zweibrücken Hbf . Retrieved July 12, 2013 .
  13. ↑ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 28 .
  14. ↑ bahnstatistik.de: Royal Direction Saarbrücken railways - Timeline: erections - names - resolutions . Retrieved December 7, 2013 .