Perleberg factory department

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Coordinates: 53 ° 4 ′ 18 "  N , 11 ° 50 ′ 54.2"  E

The execution hall of the RAW in Perleberg
Reconstructed car of the Lößnitzgrundbahn in the Perleberg factory department

The Perleberg works department of Raw Wittenberge was a repair shop to maintain the narrow-gauge wagons of the Deutsche Reichsbahn .

history

The later Perleberg factory department was founded in 1911 as the main workshop for the small railways in the West and East Prignitz districts. The plant was responsible for maintaining all of the company's locomotives and wagons. As a result of the Second World War, the company was expropriated and the assets were transferred to the Deutsche Reichsbahn in 1950. The main workshop was finally attached to the Raw Wittenberge as a works department. Even under the direction of the DR, the works department remained responsible for the repair of the narrow-gauge wagons of the Perleberg network. Starting in 1967, the works department gradually took over the repair of all narrow-gauge wagons of the DR. Originally, at this time, the closure of all narrow-gauge lines in the GDR was planned, so that the number of wagons to be looked after decreased steadily.

It was only after 1974 that the plant was given a new perspective, as part of the narrow-gauge railways in the GDR should now be preserved in the long term. After the planned acquisition of new passenger wagons failed for financial reasons, the Perleberg factory department began to fundamentally renew the existing wagons, some of which were over 70 years old. In 1977 the first Reko wagon was delivered to the Cranzahl-Oberwiesenthal narrow-gauge railway . In the following years, almost the entire narrow-gauge passenger car park of the Deutsche Reichsbahn was rebuilt.

This conversion program ended in March 1992 with the closure of the plant.

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