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| DEPOT DATASHEET | |||
| Serial: | KOL 13 | ||
| Unit served: | RAF Brüggen, including 431 Maintenance Unit RAF | ||
| Serving railway: | DB | ||
| Tariff Station: | Wegberg | ||
| Original occupant: | Built for HM Forces (Occupation costs) | ||
| Date of British occupation: | 1954 | ||
| Main user: | Army | ||
| Co-user: | RAF | ||
| Operating Manager: | Officer Commanding 79 Railway Squadron | ||
| Operating Agent to Handover Point: | DB | ||
| Operating Agent from Handover Point: | Army | ||
| Usual Locomotive: | Two Type 'C' locomotives, stabled at locomotive shed in RAF Brüggen. | ||
| Ruling Gradient: | 1:240 | ||
| Length of track: | 4,269m, including approach from depot gate to turnout 1L (1624m). The distance from the depot rail gate to Kol2 Arsbeck rail gate was a further 5,611m | ||
| Turnouts: | 10 | ||
| Map sheet: | 4702/4902 1:50,000 | ||
| Operating staff: | Two locally-employed civilian drivers and one shunter employed as crew, based at RAF Brüggen. | ||
| Notes: | 431 MU separately gated and from 1980 was rarely used, being blocked off by defensive barbed wire after turnout 8R. Passing loop between turnouts 1L and 2L, to improve track capacity to Klinkum. | ||
| Depot Diagram date: | 1964 | ||
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