Neuruppin depot

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View of the listed roundhouse of the former railway depot in Neuruppin (2012)

The Bahnbetriebswerk Neuruppin ( Bw Neuruppin for short ), known as the Neuruppin workshop with the internal abbreviation WNR since 1998 , is operated by DB Regio AG and is used for the maintenance and repair of diesel multiple units . The site was originally used by the Kremmen-Neuruppin-Wittstocker railway company, which opened its Neuruppin station there in 1898 . Later the main workshop of the Ruppiner Railway was there , which was converted into a depot of the Deutsche Reichsbahn in 1950 .

The locomotive shed of the former depot is entered in the official list of monuments of Neuruppin .

history

Neuruppin received its first rail connection on September 12, 1880 with the Paulinenaue – Neuruppin line . At what was then the Neuruppin train station in the south of the city, the Paulinenaue-Neuruppiner Eisenbahngesellschaft (PNE) built a workshop with a double-track rectangular shed in Neuruppin.

At the current location, rail operations began in 1898/1899 with the Kremmen – Meyenburg line of the Kremmen-Neuruppin-Wittstocker Eisenbahn-Aktien-Gesellschaft (KWE). In 1902 the Ruppiner Kreisbahn opened the Neustadt – Herzberg railway via Neuruppin. Both railways shared the facilities of the KWE Neuruppin station. The workshop at the station was expanded as part of the route network expansion. In 1905 a connection to the Paulinenauer Bahnhof was opened. The two companies merged in 1913 to form the Ruppiner Railway , which PNE also took over in 1923. The workshop in Neuruppin became the company's main workshop.

In the 1930s Neuruppin was the operational center of the Ruppin Railway and had an eleven-track roundhouse with a turntable. There was also a separate railcar shed. After the private railway was taken over by the Deutsche Reichsbahn, the importance of the workshop was retained. On January 1, 1950, the Reichsbahndirektion Schwerin converted the workshop into a depot.

After reunification, the importance of the Bw quickly declined, so that the department was downgraded to a deployment site on January 1, 1994 and placed under the Wittenberge depot . On May 24, 1998, however, the workshop regained its independence for a short time and then moved to the Cottbus depot on January 1, 1999 . DB Regio AG then invested DM 1.3 million in modernizing and expanding the workshop. Since the reopening in 2001, traction vehicles that run on the railway between Wittenberge and Berlin ( Prignitz Express ), among other things , have been serviced and repaired in the workshop hall . In 2017, the listed workshop hall was renovated and modernized again.

Vehicle inventory

When the railway depot was founded, mainly tank locomotives and old-style multiple units of the series VT 135 and VT 137 were stationed in Neuruppin. In 1952, class 64 locomotives were stationed there. With the addition of several diesel locomotives of the V 36 series and rail buses of the VT 2.09 series , the change in traction began in the 1960s. For the heavy freight train service, however, class 50 40 locomotives were used for a long time .

Between 1970 and 1973, diesel locomotives of the 106 and 110 series were also taken over into the inventory. On September 25, 1976, the last steam locomotive finally retired from scheduled service, so that the traction change in Neuruppin could be completed. From then on, the transport services were taken over by class 110, 111 and class 171/172 rail buses.

After the takeover by DB Regio AG, the workshop in Neuruppin initially looked after the 646 and 771/772 series. After the renovation was completed in 2017, vehicles from the 648 series will also be serviced and repaired there.

Job sites

Between 1950 and 1953, was one work site Rheinsberg (Mark) for Bw Neuruppin. After Rheinsberg (Mark) came to the Neustrelitz depot , the Neustadt (Dosse) deployment site was subordinated to the Neuruppin depot. After two years, the responsibility changed again and Neustadt (Dosse) went to the Wittenberge depot .

See also

literature

  • Klaus-Jürgen Kühne: Railway depots in the GDR . transpress Verlag, page 2017, ISBN 978-3-613-71549-3 , page 134-135.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Official List of Monuments Ostprignitz-Ruppin. (As of December 31, 2018), accessed December 30, 2019.
  2. ↑ Jesse at the opening of the DB train maintenance hall in Neuruppin - more comfort and capacity on the RE 6 line . Press release from the State of Brandenburg from September 27, 2017.

Coordinates: 52 ° 55 ′ 39.1 ″  N , 12 ° 47 ′ 41 ″  E