Schwerin railway depot
The Schwerin railway depot (for short Bw Schwerin ), known as the Schwerin depot between 1994 and 1998 (for short Bh Schwerin ), was used for the maintenance, repair and provision of locomotives and railcars that were based in Schwerin . It was opened in 1926 and closed at the turn of the millennium as part of the rationalization wave at Deutsche Bahn. A few years later, the Mecklenburg Railway Friends in Schwerin took over the site and set up the Mecklenburg Railway and Technology Museum there.
The remaining parts of the former railway depot (former wagon workshop, chimney, locomotive shed with turntable and water tower) are entered in the official list of historical buildings in Schwerin .
prehistory
Before the Schwerin depot went into operation in 1926, there was a main workshop for locomotives and wagons at the same location. It was set up by the private Mecklenburg Railway Company in 1847 with the opening of the Hagenow-Schwerin railway line and completed by 1851.
In addition to the main workshop in Schwerin, there were locomotive stations in Hagenow, Kleinen, Wismar, Rostock, Bützow and Güstrow. Only the water and coal supplies of the locomotives could be replenished there. They were subordinate to the main workshop and were later also partially converted into independent railway depots.
In the mid-1870s, the workshop included a blacksmith's shop, locksmith's shop, paint shop and warehouse, a turning shop, a copper and spring forge and bar smithy. Due to the limited space, the plant was expanded in 1908.
In 1924, the Mecklenburg State Railroad became part of the Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft . This was followed by a reorganization of the workshop system, which resulted in a considerable reduction in staff in the Schwerin workshop. In 1926 the workshop was converted into a railway depot. At that time, a 14-track roundhouse, two coal bunkers, and a driving car and workshop shed belonged to the plant.
After reunification, the Schwerin depot increasingly lost its importance and was therefore gradually reduced in size over the next few years. On January 1, 1999, DB Regio AG took over the Schwerin depot and closed the workshop at the end of 1999. Vehicle use ended on June 30, 2001. The facilities were then taken over by the Mecklenburg Railway Friends to operate a railway and technology museum there.
Locomotive inventory
In 1847, three locomotives with the 1A1 wheel arrangement were initially located in Schwerin. In the 1850s and 1860s, other type 1B and B1 locomotives were added.
From the 1880s Prussian P 2s were added to the inventory and around the turn of the century a few P 3.1 and T 3 locomotives came to Schwerin. For 1905, a total of 62 locomotives were stationed in Schwerin. Longer locomotives (such as the P 4.2 or the P 8 ) from 1914, however, did not come to Schwerin because the existing turntable was too small and no express trains were used in Schwerin at that time.
With the beginning of the Reichsbahn era and the opening of the depot, the number of locomotives in Schwerin changed. Larger locomotives, such as the P 4.2, were now stationed there. In addition, standard locomotives , represented by the 24 and 64 series , were soon part of the inventory. The following locomotive inventory can be verified for 1940:
- Series 17 10–11 (3 pieces)
- Series 24 (5 pieces)
- Series 38 10–40 (11 pieces)
- Series 55 16–22 (3 pieces)
- Series 56 2–8 (3 pieces)
- Series 56 20–29 (6 pieces)
- Series 64 (5 pieces)
- Series 90 0–2 (1 piece)
- Series 90 3–18 (1 piece)
During the Second World War, the number of locomotives in the depot changed again. Many heavy freight locomotives ( class 44 , class 50 and class 52 ) came to Schwerin from the east. However, due to a lack of fuel and spare parts, they were parked in the cold and only moved to other depots between 1946 and 1947.
At the beginning of the division of Germany within Germany, the traffic flows on the railway lines changed. Schwerin was now on an important north-south connection. At the same time, high transport services were necessary to build the socialist state. The locomotive fleet has been adapted to the new requirements. So in the 1950s the series 23 10 , 41 and 50 as well as 50.40 came to Schwerin.
In the 1960s, as part of the traction change, a start was made on replacing all steam locomotives with diesel locomotives. The new diesel locomotives in the Schwerin depot in 1962 initially included shunting locomotives of the V 15 and V 60 10 series . In the 1970s, larger diesel locomotives were added ( series V 100 , series V 180 , series V 200 or series 130 ).
In 1970 a total of 289 steam locomotives were still at home at the Schwerin depot. The following series were part of the portfolio:
- Series 01 2 (2 pieces)
- Series 03 2 (5 pieces)
- Series 35 (17 pieces)
- Series 38 1 (2 pieces)
- Series 41 (9 pieces)
- Series 44 1 (2 pieces)
- Series 50 1 (33 pieces)
- Series 50 35 (26 pieces)
- Series 50 40 (85 pieces)
- Series 52 1 (2 pieces)
- Series 57 (14 pieces)
- Series 64 (21 pieces)
- Series 91 19 (2 pieces)
- Series 93 8 (4 pieces)
- Series 93 1 (2 pieces)
- Series 94 1 (3 pieces)
- Series 99 (12 pieces)
- Series 01.0 oil (17 pieces)
- Series 44.0 oil (14 pieces)
- Series 50.0 oil (16 pieces)
With the stationing of the 132 series in 1975, the traction change was completed. The Schwerin depot was the second site in the district of the Reichsbahndirektion Schwerin that was steam-free. Diesel locomotives of the 119 series arrived in Schwerin from 1981 and replaced the 118 series by 1987.
Job sites
After the Second World War, the Schwerin depot had a total of three operations . On November 15, 1945, the Bad Kleinen locomotive station first came to the depot . The two former depots, Hagenow Land and Wismar , however, were not placed under the Schwerin depot until December 1, 1993.
Track diagram train station and locomotive station Rehna (1940)
Track diagram of the Bad Kleinen train station (1940)
Track diagram Lokbahnhof Dömitz (1940)
See also
literature
- Lothar Schultz: The time of the steam locomotives in Mecklenburg . Ostseedruck Rostock, 1988, pages 10-15.
- Klaus-Jürgen Kühne: Railway depots in the GDR . transpress Verlag, page 2017, ISBN 978-3-613-71549-3 , page 137-138.
Web links
- Mecklenburg Railway and Technology Museum in the former Schwerin depot
Individual evidence
- ↑ Official List of Historic Buildings in Schwerin (as of February 15, 2019), accessed on September 15, 2019.
- ↑ Lothar Schultz: The time of the steam locomotives in Mecklenburg . Ostseedruck Rostock, 1988, page 11.
- ↑ Lothar Schultz: The time of the steam locomotives in Mecklenburg . Ostseedruck Rostock, 1988, page 12.
Coordinates: 53 ° 38 '14.3 " N , 11 ° 24' 23.9" E