Hagenow Land depot
The Hagenow Land depot ( Bw Hagenow Land for short ) went into operation in 1928 on the Berlin – Hamburg railway east of the Hagenow Land station and served the maintenance, repair and provision of steam and later diesel locomotives that were located in Hagenow or that provided train services there. For reasons of rationalization, the Bw was downgraded to a deployment site in 1993 and closed at the end of 1996. In 1999, a private railway company finally took over the area and from then on used the locomotive shed to store its own locomotives.
history
Before the opening of the Hagenow Land depot in 1928, there were two independent locomotive stations in Hagenow. The first locomotive station was located directly on the main line from Berlin to Hamburg. It was opened in 1846 by the Berlin-Hamburg Railway Company and later taken over by the Prussian State Railway . The second locomotive station came from the Mecklenburg Railway Company (later Grand Ducal Mecklenburg Friedrich-Franz Railway ) and began operating in 1847 with the opening of the railway line to Schwerin . Both departments remained independent until the formation of the Deutsche Reichsbahn . In 1922, the two departments were combined and placed under the authority of the Altona Railway Directorate . The locomotive shed, which had existed since 1847, was demolished at this time.
Between 1926 and 1928 the Reichsbahndirektion Altona built a modern depot on the main line between Berlin and Hamburg with a nine-track roundhouse and a 23-meter turntable in front. With the construction of the 40 meter high water tower by 1931, a landmark that can be seen from afar was created. On October 1, 1945, the depot came to the Reichsbahndirektion Schwerin .
After the fall of the Wall, the Hagenow Land depot began to decline. Due to the loss of importance, the office was closed on November 30, 1993 and the plant was assigned to the Schwerin railway depot as an operational site. On December 3, 1996, the work at Deutsche Bahn AG came to an end. After a few years of standstill, the private D&D railway company took over the area in 1999 and set up its company headquarters with a workshop there.
Locomotive inventory
After the damaged and foreign locomotives were sorted out after the Second World War, the following locomotives were in the depot on December 14, 1947:
- Series 38 10–40 : 2 pieces
- Series 57 10–35 : 15 pieces
- Series 91 19 : 1 piece
- Series 93 0–4 : 1 piece
From 1961, locomotives of the 50 35 series initially operated in Hagenow . They were replaced from 1966 by class 50 40 locomotives (1969 stock: 26 units). There was also a class 64 locomotive in the fleet. In 1962, with the takeover of the V 60 10 series , the change in traction in the shunting service had already begun. In 1971 the number of class 50 40 locomotives fell to 16 and the class 64 disappeared completely. In return, diesel locomotives of the 110 and 120 series came to Hagenow for route service.
Due to the energy crisis at the beginning of the 1980s, class 50 35 locomotives returned to the depot, which had been steam-free since 1975, and remained in scheduled service there until May 1986.
Job sites
After the Second World War, the Hagenow Land depot was assigned a total of four deployment sites. The first two locations were Ludwigslust (from 1945) and Malliss (from 1946). Boizenburg and Neuhaus (Elbe) were added on January 1, 1950. All four locations were then gradually closed over the next few decades.
See also
literature
- Lothar Schultz: The time of the steam locomotives in Mecklenburg . Ostseedruck Rostock, 1988, pages 40-41.
- Klaus-Jürgen Kühne: Railway depots in the GDR . transpress Verlag, page 2017, ISBN 978-3-613-71549-3 , pages 133-134.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lothar Schultz: The time of the steam locomotives in Mecklenburg . Ostseedruck Rostock, 1988, page 71.
Coordinates: 53 ° 24 ′ 55.4 " N , 11 ° 13 ′ 31.3" E