Motor vehicle depot

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Former petrol station in the disbanded Kbw Nürnberg (2009)

As a Kraftwagenbetriebswerk (Kbw), a place of work on the German railroad that was responsible for the maintenance and repair of its own buses , trucks and other motorized road vehicles.

When the first line buses and trucks of the Deutsche Reichsbahn went into operation in 1933, the Kraftwagenbetriebswerke were established, which were responsible for maintenance, minor repairs, adding operating materials and cleaning the vehicles.

A Kbw was often attached to a depot and was responsible for organizing the deployment of vehicles and driving staff.

German Federal Railroad 1949–1993

Former vehicle hall in the disbanded Kbw Nürnberg (2009)

Until the privatization and reorganization of bus and coach transport German Federal Railroad in 1990 were the cars depots, in addition to the operational management of bus other for servicing vehicles of DB responsible, for example, for the trucks of DB's long-distance freight traffic and the vehicles of heavy goods traffic, road rollers and tractors . However, the DB heavy transport group (road-rail) was stationed nationwide in Hagen and no longer distributed across individual locations.

In the motor vehicle depots, general inspections were carried out by DB's own staff, and there were also some DB driving schools. Smaller task forces were assigned to the railway depots as the K group, for example in Hameln. There were motor vehicle depots in Nuremberg, Hanover, Hamburg, Bremen, Braunschweig and Kassel, among others.

Deutsche Reichsbahn 1949–1993

The Deutsche Reichsbahn had motor vehicle depots that were responsible for the maintenance and repair of all railway-owned motor vehicles. These included not so much the buses or trucks that supplement the railway, but above all the internal technical interference suppression, delivery and supply vehicles and other company cars.

Deutsche Bahn AG

From 1994, vehicle repairs and scheduling were reorganized. The existing vehicle fleet was transferred to the new DB FuhrparkService division.

Web links

Commons : Kraftwagenbetriebswerk Nürnberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Kraftwagenbetriebswerk (Kbw) Frankfurt / Oder. History of the Kbw. eisenbahnfreunde.transnet-ffo.de, accessed on February 20, 2017 .