Machine office

At the time of the State Railways in German-speaking countries , the machine office , sometimes also called machine inspection, was an authority subordinate to a railway directorate , which was responsible for the execution and supervision of the machinery and workshop service within the district of the railway directorate. The work on locomotives and other equipment required for rail service was carried out in the downstream depot or the depot . Each machine office was responsible for several depots, wagon works and in some cases also for schools of railway operations. On August 1, 1935, there were 27 Reichsbahndirectors and 132 machine offices. Statistics on the performance and costs of the locomotives stationed at the downstream plants were also kept at the machine office.

literature

Machine offices. In: Viktor von Röll (ed.): Encyclopedia of the Railway System . 2nd Edition. Volume 7: Kronenbreite personal tariffs . Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin / Vienna 1915, p. 246 .
Deutsche Reichsbahn: Directory of the machine offices, railway depots, railway vehicle works, locomotive stations, station locksmiths and relief trains : valid from April 1, 1941 to , Vienna 1941, Eisenbahn-Kurier Verlag, Wuppertal / Freiburg, 2nd edition, 1977 (unaltered reprint), ISBN 3 882558202

Web links

Machine offices 1939 , in: Deutsche Reichsbahn: Bahnbetriebswerke und other offices , as of April 1939, on hs-merseburg.de, seen on January 1, 2012

Overview of the depots of the RBD Wuppertal as of April 1, 1941 , including machineoffices,in: Reichsbahndirektion Wuppertal , on bahnen-wuppertal.de, seen on January 1, 2012

Individual evidence

↑ Marc Lewandowski: The locomotive driving school in the Braunschweig depot ( memento from February 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), in: The Braunschweig railway depot on eisenbahngeschichte-bs.de, seen on December 31, 2011
↑ Workshop service. In: Viktor von Röll (ed.): Encyclopedia of the Railway System . 2nd Edition. Volume 10: Transitional bridges - intermediate station . Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin / Vienna 1923, p. 357 −370 (Section XI b): Performance evaluation by the company).

[1] Marc Lewandowski: The locomotive driving school in the Braunschweig depot ( memento from February 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), in: The Braunschweig railway depot on eisenbahngeschichte-bs.de, seen on December 31, 2011

[2] Workshop service. In: Viktor von Röll (ed.): Encyclopedia of the Railway System . 2nd Edition. Volume 10: Transitional bridges - intermediate station . Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin / Vienna 1923, p. 357 −370 (Section XI b): Performance evaluation by the company).