Ausbesserungswerk

Maintenance workshops (AW ) are used for maintenance of railway vehicles or their components. In contrast to railway depots that take everyday, minor works, maintenance workshops specializing in major repairs, major investigations and the processing of exchange parts. Furthermore, it conducts refurbishment and modernization of vehicles, and in some cases the construction of railway vehicles. In addition to the maintenance of rolling stock, some repair shops also take on the making of course, the construction of signal bridges, platform roofs and similar steel structures. Depending on the specialization of maintenance workshops also speaks of coaches works (maintenance of passenger cars ), wagons works (maintenance of freight wagons ) and switch works (production of course ) one.

Term in history and region

Depending on the region, railway company and historical context repair works have been referred to by other terms. Especially in the first decades of the railway sector, the term Centralwerkstätte was common. In Austria and in many private railways is spoken by the main workshops. DB AG uses the term work. The German Reichsbahn introduced in 1924 the term railway repair factory ( EAW ) and 1927 Reichsbahn repair shop (Raw / RAW ) a. This term was used further by the Deutsche Reichsbahn until 1993.

Structures and technical equipment

The structural center of a repair shop is usually a large, multi-track Richthalle, allow in more work states the repair of several rail vehicles at a time. The work stands are equipped with hoists to jack up the vehicle and be able to separate the bodies from the chassis. Affiliated with The Richthalle are mechanical and electrical workshops for working up items such as landing gear, brake valves and motors. The exterior painting of the railway vehicles is one separated from the Richthalle paint shop.

The works

With the expansion of the rail network of the railways from the mid-19th century, a variety of maintenance workshops throughout the German speaking originated. The number of necessary repair work has been significantly reduced by the transition from maintenance-intensive steam service to more maintainable electric and diesel traction as well as the increasing rationalization of workshops operation. Thus, the German Railway now operates only the following:

In addition to Deutsche Bahn AG, the Austrian Federal Railways, the Swiss Federal Railways and major private railways operate their own main workshops. In pastures, Stendal, Delitzsch, Leipzig, Kaiserslautern and Halberstadt former maintenance workshops of the Deutsche Bahn AG and its predecessors were transferred to private ownership.

A private repair shop in Unterhausen to Neuburg an der Donau is freight car repair, mainly tankers.

Main workshops of the transport

Main workshops for rail vehicles are found not only in railways, but also in urban, metro and trams. Due to the comparatively small number of waiting vehicles to the main workshops are affiliated tram depots in most cases. An example is the main workshop of the Wiener Linien, where metro, trams and trains the local train and buses to be serviced.

Former maintenance workshops in Germany

In addition to the still -powered maintenance workshops, the German Bahn AG or their predecessors operational maintenance workshops and main workshops at the following locations:

  • Aalen
  • Albrechtshof (near Berlin) (also known as Falkirk name; never as Raw in operation)
  • Augsburg
  • Betzdorf
  • Berlin- Friedrichshain ( 1950 RAW " Franz Stenzer " ), emerged from KED Berlin main workshop
  • Berlin- Schoeneweide (now works Schoeneweide the Berlin S -Bahn )
  • Berlin -Tempelhof
  • Brandenburg
  • Brunswick
  • Darmstadt ( car plant and locomotive works )
  • Delitzsch, today SFW rail car plant Delitzsch
  • Dresden- Friedrichstadt
  • Duisburg- Wedau
  • Esslingen am Neckar
  • Frankfurt am Main
  • Frankfurt -Nied
  • Friedrichshafen
  • Gluckstadt
  • Görlitz - Schlauroth
  • Gotha
  • Göttingen
  • Greifswald ( later cars repair shop KAW DR )
  • Halberstadt (now private AW VIS GmbH)
  • Halle an der Saale
  • Hamburg -Harburg
  • Hanover Leinhausen (now partly for light rail üstra )
  • Ingolstadt
  • Jena
  • Jülich
  • Karlsruhe
  • Karlsruhe- Durlach
  • Kaiserslautern
  • Köln- Nippes
  • Karthaus
  • Kornwestheim
  • Leipzig Angel Village
  • Limburg an der Lahn
  • Lingen
  • Lubeck
  • Ludwigshafen am Rhein
  • Magdeburg
  • Mainz
  • Malchin
  • Mülheim ( Mülheim today depot of the public transport company )
  • Munich -Freimann
  • Munich - Neuaubing
  • Offenburg
  • Oldenburg
  • Opladen
  • Osnabrück
  • Paderborn Hbf
  • Pearl Mountain ( Werkabt. of Wittenberg )
  • Potsdam
  • Recklinghausen
  • Regensburg
  • Rostock
  • Saarbrücken -Burbach
  • Sword
  • Schwetzingen
  • Win
  • Stendal (now private AW Alstom )
  • Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt
  • Stuttgart Nord
  • Trier
  • Pastures (now working part of OWS GmbH Opera Pfälzische Waggon Service GmbH Knape the group)
  • Wittenberg
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