Wustermark marshalling yard
| Wustermark marshalling yard | |
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 The 56 meter high water tower is a landmark of the station.
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| Location in the network | Separation station |
| Design | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 2 |
| abbreviation | BWUR BETN (Elstal stop) |
| opening | May 1, 1909 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Elstal |
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| City / municipality | Wustermark |
| Place / district | Elstal |
| country | Brandenburg |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 32 '49 " N , 13 ° 0' 0" E |
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| Railway stations in Brandenburg | |
Wustermark marshalling yard , formerly Wustermark marshalling yard called, is a railway station in the village Elstal the community Wustermark in Havelland in Brandenburg west of Berlin . Opened in 1907, the station with its attached depot was one of the largest and most modern marshalling yards in Germany until the Second World War . After the end of the war, only half of the station remained in operation, but the station remained important for the freight traffic of the Deutsche Reichsbahn in the GDR. After the fall of the Wall it lost its importance. A threatened closure could be avoided in 2008 through the takeover by the Rail & Logistik Center Wustermark ( RLC Wustermark or RLCW ), a subsidiary of the Havelländische Eisenbahn . The station is also used by regional passenger traffic, the access point has been called Elstal since 1999 . A number of buildings from the time the station was built have been preserved and are under monument protection .
location
The station is located on the Lehrter Bahn on the northern edge of Elstal, about four kilometers east of the community center of Wustermark and eight kilometers west of the Berlin city limits. The junction of the Lehrter Bahn with the Berlin outer ring is around two kilometers away, and it is 26 kilometers to Berlin Central Station .
history
The beginnings
In the second half of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, the population and industry in Berlin and its suburbs, which were not yet incorporated at the time, increased rapidly. The railway developed into an important means of transport, and a number of marshalling yards emerged in Berlin and the surrounding area. Such a train station was also necessary west of Berlin. The old Spandau train station was overloaded and was gradually rebuilt after 1900. A new marshalling yard was to be built outside the city. Initially, Seegefeld (now Falkensee ) was under discussion at the Hamburger Bahn . Ultimately, the decision was made for a location on the Lehrter Bahn in an open field east of Wustermark. Not least because of the choice of the short time fell on this place because around here previously opened route to Nauen the bypass path , the Lehrter train crossing and the train station wildlife park in Potsdam and the Hamburg railway in Nauen joined.
Before the marshalling yard went into operation, the Spandau - Wustermark section of the Lehrter Bahn was upgraded to four tracks, with the Staaken stop and the Dallgow-Döberitz station having to be completely rebuilt. The section of the bypass line between Wustermark and Nauen was also expanded to double-track in 1908/09, and appropriate preparations had already been made when the line was built in 1903. A connecting curve was created to the bypass to the south in the direction of the wildlife park. The swampy terrain caused some difficulties during construction, the buildings had to be supported with stakes. After two years of construction, the Wustermark marshalling yard , as it was then called, opened on May 1, 1909.
The station was one of the largest and most modern of its kind. Originally, it was designed as a two-sided station, for traffic in east-west and west-east directions there were separate station parts, each with a drainage hill . A workshop with roundhouse, a water tower and various administrative buildings was built next to the station. A separate power station provided the station with energy. After the First World War, the workshop was expanded into a railway depot. A second roundhouse went into operation in 1920. Since 1918 the wastewater has been treated in a biological sewage treatment plant, an innovation for the time. After the First World War, the village of Elstal was built in 1919 to accommodate the many railway workers.
After the Second World War
On April 20, 1945, the station was badly hit by bombs. While the depot suffered relatively little damage, the marshalling yard was badly damaged. The west-east shunting system in the southern part of the station was not rebuilt after 1945, since then the shunting yard has only been half of its former size and has since been operated as a one-sided station. The station was noticeably affected by the division of Germany and Berlin, as it was on a route that led from what was then West Berlin to West Germany . Nevertheless, it remained important, on the one hand for internal traffic in the GDR, on the other hand for transit goods traffic to West Berlin. In 1954, the Berlin outer ring went into operation in this area, from which connecting routes to the marshalling yard were created. This created a connection from the train station to the northeast, which was especially important for traffic to the seaports. In 1958, the ring was expanded to two tracks.
After the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961, the connection via the Lehrter Bahn to West Berlin was completely closed for passenger traffic; it remained in operation for freight traffic. A special customs station was built in the northeast of the complex for this purpose. The Wustermark station has been called the marshalling yard since 1963 . In 1983 the western Berlin outer ring was electrified, in this context the Wustermarker marshalling yard was also connected to the electrical route network of the Deutsche Reichsbahn . At the time of the change in the GDR in 1989, up to 1200 people worked in the station.
After 1989 the freight traffic decreased. In addition, operations at Deutsche Bahn were made more efficient. The volume of traffic at the station dropped significantly. The depot was downgraded to the Seddin site in 1996 and closed completely in 2001. In the 1990s, however, there were considerations to expand the marshalling yard next to the Berlin Nordost station into one of the two node stations for freight traffic in the Berlin area. Modernization measures for the shunting technology had already been tackled when, in 2000, Deutsche Bahn withdrew from the expansion plans and subsequently planned to close the station completely.
In 2007 a foundation model to finance the renovation of the facilities was discussed. A mixed use of the area for traffic and tourism was examined. At that time, it was estimated that the renovation of the buildings would cost 4.5 million euros, including around 2 million euros for the locomotive shed. These plans have not yet been implemented (as of 2011).
Takeover by the Rail & Logistics Center Wustermark
In April 2008, Havelländische Eisenbahn AG and BUG Vermietungsgesellschaft mbH founded the subsidiary Rail & Logistik Center GmbH & Co. KG Wustermark (RLCW). On July 1, 2008, the RLCW bought the marshalling yard equipment from Deutsche Bahn. The company planned to gradually bring the track system back into operation, but after a short time the entire station area it had taken over was used again. The RLCW operates the station as a public infrastructure. The railway facilities are used on the one hand to park temporarily unused vehicles, on the other hand for freight traffic for changing locomotives and personnel as well as for train formation. Regular freight transport services include (as of spring 2011) car transport trains with vehicles made in Poland, which on the one hand continue to ports in Belgium after changing locomotives in the marshalling yard . On the other hand, the vehicles are transported to a distribution warehouse in Etzin on the route from Wustermark to Ketzin . In addition, there are some services in long-distance and local freight transport to several locations in the region. The company is also planning to work more closely with the municipal freight center on the outer ring. In 2010/2011, part of the tracks was used by the Bombardier company to park a number of Talent 2 railcars , as the vehicles had not yet received approval from the Federal Railway Authority .
Company Rail & Logistik Center Wustermark
On June 19, 2008, the entry was made at the Potsdam District Court (HRA 4632).
The company has set itself the following business areas:
- Provision of railway infrastructure for railway companies and rail freight forwarders
- Commissioning platform for rail vehicle manufacturers
- Railport - provision of loading lanes and storage areas
- Promotion of the establishment of rail-related services
- Mediation of services related to the railways
- Cooperation with Havelländische Eisenbahn AG (wagon repair workshop)
- Provision of a tank track (diesel filling station operator - DB Energie GmbH)
- Partner of the BahnLogistik Terminal Wustermark in the GVZ Wustermark (BLTW)
- Partner of the BahnTechnologie Campus Havelland at the Elstal site (BTC)
- Cooperation with universities and colleges Cooperation and test field for companies in the fields of research and development
In the European rail network, the RLC Wustermark sees itself as an EVU-neutral marshalling yard for the implementation of logistics concepts. The aim is to create a maximum of customer benefit and sustainable added value through customer orientation, flexibility and quality.
passenger traffic
Passenger trains always stopped at the station for employees and later for Elstal. In the 1920s, suburban traffic was separated from other traffic. Suburban trains ran once or twice an hour from the Lehrter train station via the marshalling yard to Wustermark. After 1945, the separate suburban traffic was not resumed, only the passenger trains in the direction of Rathenow stopped . Since 1952, passenger trains on the Lehrter Bahn have ended at the Berlin-Staaken station right at the border. Until the wall was built, travelers could change to the S-Bahn to Berlin.
The station was of particular importance for passenger traffic after the construction of the Berlin Wall . The traffic from the places west of Berlin to East Berlin was handled via the Berlin outer ring. Together with the Wustermark station , the Wustermark marshalling yard served as a junction between the Lehrter Bahn and the outer ring trains. The passenger trains from Rathenow ended in Wustermark shunting yard. From there, railcars drove about every hour to Dallgow and Staaken, in the other direction to Falkenhagen on the outer ring. A few more trains connected the marshalling yard with Brieselang or Bredow and Nauen. The timetable concept remained almost unchanged for almost 30 years until the fall of the Berlin Wall.
After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1990, passenger train services were resumed in the western part of Berlin. Trains ran every hour from Berlin via Wustermark marshalling yard to Nauen, alternating via Brieselang and Bredow. With the reopening of the Hamburger Bahn in 1995, these trains ran again via Falkensee . Wustermark marshalling yard was then served by trains commuting between Berlin and Wustermark for a few months before the passenger trains on the Lehrter Bahn were replaced by buses at the end of 1995 as part of the upgrade to a high-speed line . Initially, a construction period of two years was planned, but the construction work was delayed by over a year due to planning difficulties. Even after the line was put back into operation at the end of 1998, the station could not be operated by passengers for a long time. The reason was that the municipality and Deutsche Bahn could not agree on the cost of restoring the pedestrian bridge over the tracks. If it was initially assumed that the station would be operational again in mid-1999, the station could not be operated again until June 2002. Since then, the people stop has borne the name of the neighboring Elstal settlement.
Elstal is served hourly (as of 2016) by the regional express trains on line RE 4 from Rathenow via Wustermark, Elstal, Berlin-Spandau and the Berlin north-south long-distance railway to Ludwigsfelde , in rush hour traffic to Jüterbog . In rush hour traffic, the RB 13 also runs every hour between Wustermark and Berlin-Jungfernheide from Monday to Friday.
Investments
overview
The station is located in an east-west direction, the site extends over a length of about four kilometers. The tracks of the Hanover – Berlin high-speed line run north of the actual station facilities , followed by the Elstal passenger stop with an island platform. Further south there are three parallel tracks that are owned by DB Netz . The connection to the actual marshalling yard and the traffic to the outer ring, which cannot be reached from the passenger tracks, run via these tracks. The main part of the marshalling yard adjoining it to the south is now owned by the RLCW.
A pedestrian bridge leads over the tracks from the station forecourt south of the station. Most of the facilities of the marshalling yard and the passenger platform are to the east of the bridge, to the west of it are some access tracks and the facilities of the former railway depot.
A number of the station's buildings are listed as historical monuments. These include the station building and an adjacent signal box ; several signal boxes, a coaling system and a reloading hall on the premises of the marshalling yard as well as the locomotive shed, the water tower , the sewage treatment plant, the power station and several administrative and social buildings on the premises of the depot.
Marshalling yard
The marshalling yard taken over by the RLCW consists of 25 logistics tracks for trains up to 850 meters in length (former directional group ) and to the east of it a group of six electrified train-long entry and exit tracks (former entry group). In total, the marshalling yard covers an area of 22 hectares with 31 kilometers of track. The RLC Wustermark operates the largest privately run public train station for goods traffic in Germany.
Of the three signal boxes still in operation on the site, the Wmt and Wur signal boxes are used by DB Netz, the RLC uses the Wot signal box for its dispatching. The switches required for the operation of the marshalling yard were partially converted to manual operation after the takeover by the RLCW. This also includes five loading tracks (some with head ramps) with a length of up to 850 meters, on which the loading and interim storage of wood and bulk goods is possible. There is a diesel filling station near the station building operated by DB Energie .
The interlocking systems in the listed Rs IV interlocking (built in 1907) in the marshalling yard, the highest interlocking in the station, have been preserved as a museum. They are looked after by a working group of the Bahn-Sozialwerk. The coal unloading system near the station building and the large loading hall in the east of the marshalling yard are also listed, along with other signal boxes on the site. The loading hall was closed on January 11, 1996.
Depot
The facilities of the former depot are essentially unused. A small part of the area serves as a workshop for the Havelländische Eisenbahn , which will also move its headquarters from Spandau to the site in the near future. The associated tracks are connected via the marshalling yard, there is no longer a direct connection to the west. A number of listed buildings from the time of construction in the area of the depot are still preserved, but are no longer used.
The most striking building is the 56 meter high water tower. This is followed by a 21-room roundhouse with a turntable . There was another engine shed next to it, but it was dismantled during the GDR era.
A diesel power plant from 1908 was used to generate energy. Here, a diesel engine with a connected three-phase generator from the time it was built has been preserved at its original location. Substations from 1909 and a number of switchgears and other furnishings have also been preserved.
One of the innovations at the time was also a biological sewage treatment plant. Construction began shortly after the station opened in 1912, it went into operation in 1918 and was in operation until 2000. Their systems have largely been preserved. There are also a number of other buildings from the time of construction, including administration buildings and accommodation, as well as a car repair hall and workshops.
Currently, the Bahnechnologie Campus Havelland GmbH, a company of the Havelland district, the Havelländische Eisenbahn and the municipality of Wustermark, is revitalizing the site of the old marshalling yard, funded by the federal and state of Brandenburg. The aim is to develop a railway-related industrial park with a notable focus on research, development, training and further education.
Person breakpoint
Passenger traffic is served by the Elstal stop , which is part of the Wustermark marshalling yard. It consists of a central platform with two platform edges. Originally, both tracks in the direction of Wustermark and the connection in the direction of the northern outer ring were accessible from the platform tracks; there was no direct connection to the outer ring in the south. Today only one track in the direction of Wustermark is connected to the platform tracks, the outer ring can only be reached from the tracks connecting to the south. North of the platform are the tracks of the high-speed line with no connection to the train station. Travelers reach the platform via a footbridge, which also connects the village of Elstal and the Dyrotz Luch settlement. In December 2014, two elevators at the pedestrian bridge went into operation for barrier-free access to the platform, and 736,000 euros were invested for this.
According to the regional public transport plan of the state of Brandenburg published on September 30, 2018, Elstal station will be a stop on the new R21 line from Potsdam to Berlin Gesundbrunnen. For this, however, a new platform has to be built and the track system has to be adapted in advance of the station.
Systems that no longer exist
The west-east direction in the southern part of the former marshalling yard, which was no longer rebuilt after 1945, was roughly the mirror image of the remaining shunting yard. Individual remains can be seen under the vegetation. After the closure of the depot, the connecting tracks between the plant and the marshalling yard south of the station building were no longer available. The loading road with track in the extreme south of the site was also removed. Before the renovation, the station building was in the middle of the tracks; today there is a station forecourt on its south side. Accordingly, the pedestrian bridge, which once led from north to south across the entire site, was rebuilt significantly shorter.
When the high-speed line was expanded in the second half of the 1990s, the customs station on the northeast side of the station complex, which was no longer needed, was removed.
literature
- Christian Bedeschinski, Bernd Neddermeyer: The Wustermark marshalling yard and the Elstal railway settlement . Neddermeyer-Verlag, Berlin 2004. ISBN 3-933254-43-4
- Erich Giese: Redesign of the railway facilities near Spandau and construction of a marshalling yard near Wustermark . (PDF; 13.0 MB) In: Zeitschrift für Bauwesen . Part 1. Berlin 62.1912, pp. 207-238, part 2 (PDF; 14.1 MB), pp. 643-670
- Wolf-Dietger Machel : A century of Wustermark shunting yard. In: Verkehrsgeschichtliche Blätter , Volume 36, Issue 3 (May / June 2009), pp. 74–77.
Web links
- Page about the train station near the municipality of Wustermark
- Thomas Dempwolf (text and pictures): Eisenbahnpark Wustermark marshalling yard - Forum of industrial culture . Published by Historia-Elstal eV
- Bahnbetriebswerk Wustermark on bahnstatistik.de
- Homepage of the Rail & Logistics Center Wustermark
- Website of BahnTechnologie Campus Havelland GmbH
- Station service instruction Wustermark Vbf from May 1, 1927
Individual evidence
- ^ Bernd Kuhlmann: Bahnknoten Berlin . Verlag GVE, 2006, ISBN 3-89218-099-7
- ↑ a b E. Giese: Redesign of the railway facilities near Spandau ... (PDF; 14.1 MB), pp. 653–655
- ↑ E. Giese: Redesign of the railway systems at Spandau ... (PDF; 14.1 MB), pp. 650–652
- ↑ a b Ortschronik ( memento from January 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the Historia Elstal Association, accessed on February 1, 2016.
- ↑ a b c Expensive landmark - analysis for marshalling yard Wustermark favors foundation model . In: Märkische Allgemeine . July 18, 2007
- ^ Bernd Kuhlmann: Bahnknoten Berlin . 2nd edition GVE-Verlag, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-89218-099-7 , p. 152
- ↑ a b c Kai-Uwe Thiessenhusen: Rail & Logistics Center Wustermark - new life for an old train station . In: Bahn-Report , issue 3/2011, pp. 18/19
- ^ Company website
- ^ ICE to Berlin one year later . In: Berliner Zeitung , October 23, 1996
- ↑ The regional train runs again from Berlin to Rathenow . In: Berliner Zeitung , November 10, 1998
- ↑ List of monuments of the state of Brandenburg, Havelland district . ( Memento from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 234 kB), p. 23, Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum, as of December 2010
- ^ Christoph Grimm: RLC Wustermark - Sidings as a business model . In: Railroad Revue International , Issue 5/2014, pp 22 /23
- ^ Thomas Dempwolf (text and picture): Eisenbahnpark Wustermark marshalling yard - Forum of industrial culture. Published by Historia-Elstal eV, accessed on February 1, 2016.
- ↑ Thomas Dempwolf: The biological sewage treatment plant on the Wustermark marshalling yard . In: industrial culture, magazine for monument preservation, landscape, social, environmental and technological history . 2008, accessed February 2, 2016.
- ↑ see website of BTC Havelland GmbH http://www.btc-havelland.de/#bottom-d
- ↑ Railway area in Elstal: Germany's largest training facility for train drivers is being built here in Berliner Zeitung, February 4, 2019
- ↑ Easier to get to the train at Elstal station. Deutsche Bahn AG, December 12, 2014, archived from the original on September 23, 2015 ; accessed on February 1, 2015 .
- ↑ https://mil.brandenburg.de/sixcms/detail.php/808403