Bahnbetriebswerk Görlitz, Railway maintenance depot in Görlitz, Germany.
Bahnbetriebswerk Görlitz is a railway maintenance facility in the southern part of the city with multiple tracks, workshop buildings, and technical installations. The site is used for regular servicing and repair of trains.
The facility was established in 1911 as a joint maintenance works for Prussian and Saxon state railways. Since its founding, it has supported railway maintenance for the region.
The site's name reflects railway terminology: Prussia called such depots Lokomotivbahnhof or Betriebswerkstätte, Saxony called them Heizhäuser, and the term Bahnbetriebswerk only arose during the Reichsbahn era. The 1911 joint works kept separate facilities for the Prussian and Saxon railways, each with its own magazine, workshop, coal bunker, loading platform, water crane and fire pit.
The depot lies on the western approach to Görlitz station, bounded by the Dresden line and Reichenbacher Straße to the north and the Siemens steam turbine plant to the south. Two entrances lead onto the grounds, one from Lutherstraße just south of the Brautwiesentunnel, the other from Reichenbacher Straße. The site is a working workshop, so view it from the public roads and keep clear of the tracks.
The site is reached from track 114, the northernmost through-track of Görlitz station, via points 168 and 170; a second, more northerly track V170 leads to the fuelling installations. Between the two points, track V66 branches off through point 72 and runs into track 10, giving direct access to all platform tracks.
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