Oberschöneweide industrial railway

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Site plan of the Bullenbahn, reconstructed from aerial photographs.

The industrial railway Oberschöneweide is a former industrial connecting railway in Berlin . It began at the Niederschöneweide marshalling yard and opened up the Oberschöneweides industrial operations . It was later extended to the Rummelsburg marshalling yard . In Berlin vernacular , the route is known as the "Bullenbahn" . The industrial railway also included the Nalepastraße depot , which is now used by the Berlin tram . The "Bullenbahn" was operated from 1890 to 1996.

history

In 1890 the line was built by the Grundrenten-Gesellschaft. It led from the Niederschöneweide-Johannisthal freight yard over the Stubenrauchbrücke to Wilhelminenhofstrasse. A branch to Tabbertstrasse was also built. After its completion, the line was leased to a haulage company who operated the Oberschöneweide rail freight company with it. He initially used horses and oxen as draft animals, hence the name "bull train". Other sources say that the heavy freight locomotives were nicknamed Bulle and thus contributed to the nickname.

In 1899, the line was extended over Edisonstrasse and Rummelsburger Landstrasse to the Rummelsburg freight yard. Two years later, the Berlin Ostbahnen bought the line and electrified it. On August 1, 1901, the first electric locomotive, a converted open freight car of the Prussian State Railways, ran .

In 1957 the line was around 13 kilometers long and served 30 factory connections. Twelve years later, in 1969, the route as well as the rolling stock went to VEB Autotrans Berlin. Since the freight railroad massively obstructed automobile and tram traffic in the course of Edisonstrasse, a new line was built by March 1979. This ran from the depot via Nalepastraße and the allotment garden colony Wilhelmstrand to Rummelsburger Straße, where it led into the old route. The old line in Edisonstraße was given up at the same time and the previously single-track tram section was expanded to double-track.

In 1990 the line went to the VEB inland port, later BEHALA , which ceased electrical operation on the line in 1995. The four-year-old Romanian new locomotive was scrapped. Remaining operations were maintained by a road-rail Unimog before the line was finally closed in 1996. In the following years, the route was largely dismantled or built over in the course of road construction. In some places, however, remnants such as tracks on separate track beds or power pylons can still be seen in the street scene.

Remains of the industrial railway at the intersection of Blockdammweg / Hönower Wiesenweg

business

Carloads carried in the 20th century

The traffic on the route took place on its own track body, despite the tram running parallel to it. The freight trains carried were up to 24 wagons (48 axles) and a maximum of 25 km / h. The BVG employee magazine " Die Fahrt " states the following operating benefits for the 1920s:

year axes Truckloads Weight in tons
1920 56.194 27,477 335,596
1925 61,916 30,334 375.249
1928 65,630 31,911 372,651

Rolling stock

On the industrial line Oberschöneweide, in addition to the locomotives (and freight wagons) of the operating company, there were also numerous works vehicles of the neighboring companies. These included the KWO , the BAE , Minol , the TRO .

The L2, a LEW EL 4 1992 in the depot Nalepastraße.
L 2, a LEW EL 4 , exhibited in Berlin's Westhafen
The LEM 25-002 1992 in the Nalepastraße depot
L12, exhibited in the Oldtimer Museum Rügen
Type
(manufacturer)
Vehicle
operation number
Construction year on Remarks
No. 200 Converted freight car of the Prussian State Railways. Two tram motors were installed in the vehicle, which were fed from the 600-volt direct current network. It also received an open platform.
(AEG) L12 / L14 1914 L12: In use until 1990, kept as a reserve machine until January 1995 due to the high susceptibility to damage of the FAUR machines, today exhibited in the Oldtimer Museum Rügen .
L14: in service until 1982, scrapped in 1990
AEG type Gummersbach L21 1925 scrapped in 1990
L22 1925 is in a non-operational condition, but externally reconditioned, at the Railway Museum Gramzow
V10B
( LKM )
252 121 KWO 1 1960 VEB Kombinat Kabelwerk Oberspree (KWO) 1994 to Eisenbahnfreunde HeiNa Ganzlin
252 132 1960 VEB Minol, later VEB Transformatoren- und Röntgenwerk Oberspree (TRO) unknown
252 193 1961 VEB transformers and x-ray works Oberspree (TRO) 1994 to Eisenbahnfreunde HeiNa Ganzlin
252 254 1961 Cable works Oberspree 1998 to the Vogtland Railway Association in Adorf
252 340 KWO 2 1962 Cable works Oberspree 1994 to Eisenbahnfreunde HeiNa Ganzlin
252 395 KWO 3 1963 Cable works Oberspree 1994 to Eisenbahnfreunde HeiNa Ganzlin
252 506 KWO 4 1968 Cable works Oberspree 1994 to Eisenbahnfreunde HeiNa Ganzlin
LEW EL 4
( LEW )
L1 ? Ostbahnhof railway post office Arrived at the end of the 1970s from the railway post office in Berlin Ostbahnhof to the Bullenbahn. After being taken over by BEHALA, they were resident in the Osthafen, later stored, and scrapped in Rummelsburg in 1995.
L2 ? Ostbahnhof railway post office Arrived at the end of the 1970s from the railway post office in Berlin Ostbahnhof to the Bullenbahn. After being taken over by BEHALA, they were housed in the Osthafen, later stored, and are now a memorial to the BEHALA administration in the Westhafen
L EM 25
( FAUR )
25 001 1990 VEB Binnenhafen Berlin, later BEHALA New acquisition at the beginning of 1991, only accepted in April after technical problems with the drive, in operation at the end of September 1991, expired on February 10, 1995, parked in the Osthafen , scrapped there in 1996
25 002 1990 VEB Binnenhafen Berlin, later BEHALA New acquisition at the beginning of 1991, in operation at the end of September 1991, transferred to Osthafen with the cessation of electrical operation in November 1995, scrapped there in 1996
Unimog
(Mercedes-Benz)
Road-rail Unimog , in use from 1995 to 1997 to maintain a residual operation

literature

  • Peter Bock et al .: The bulls from Oberschöneweide. An industrial railway in the southeast of Berlin . In: Verkehrsgeschichtliche Blätter . Issues 4, 5, 2003, pp. 86 ff., 131 ff .
  • Wolfgang Rexzeh, Michael Günther: Special duty on the "Bullenbahn" / shunting service on the industrial railway in Oberschöneweide . In: Verkehrsgeschichtliche Blätter , Volume 41, No. 1 (January / February 2014), pp. 15–17.

Individual evidence

  1. Dr. Schn .: The BVG railway . In: Die Fahrt , BVG employee newspaper . No. 108 , 1929, pp. 3 ff . ( online at berliner-verkehrsseiten.de [PDF; 786 kB ; accessed on June 30, 2014]).