Tram Herne – Castrop-Rauxel

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Tram Herne - Castrop-Rauxel GmbH
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Basic information
Company headquarters Herne
Web presence Web presence
Reference year 2010
Managing directors Karsten Kruger
Transport network Rhein-Ruhr transport association
Employee 280
thereof 10 trainees
sales 15 +1 (Cranger Kirmes)dep1
Lines
bus 15 + 1 Cranger Kirmes line + 4 NE lines
number of vehicles
Omnibuses 66
statistics
Passengers 19.6 million per year
Mileage 3.8 million km per year
Stops 562
Residents in the
catchment area 		0.2 million
Length of line network
Bus routes 224 km

The tram Herne - Castrop-Rauxel GmbH is a local transport company of the city of Herne . Contrary to its name, the HCR , as it is known for short, no longer operates trams. As a member of the Rhein-Ruhr transport association , the Eastern Ruhr Area (KÖR) cooperates with the neighboring companies Vestische , DSW (Dortmunder Stadtwerke AG) and Bogestra and, since 2017, with VER (Ennepe-Ruhr transport company) - in 2019 the HST ( Hagener Straßenbahn AG) and in 2020 the Ruhrbahn (Essen) will be added.

history

The tram Herne - Castrop-Rauxel GmbH was founded on August 1st, 1905 by the municipalities of Herne and Sodingen as a company under civil law with the company Straßenbahn Herne-Sodingen . Originally, the communities wanted to set up a trolleybus route between the two places. These plans were after the O-bus operation of BSM in Monheim was visited again shelved and it was the decision to build a tram line . On December 20, 1906, the line between the office building in Sodingen and the Shamrock colliery in Herne went into operation. On September 18, 1909, the Castrop community joined the society. From the tram Herne Sodingen was streetcar Herne Sodingen-Castrop and the enlargement to Castrop-Cathedral Square was attacked.

The 4.6-kilometer route was connected to BOGESTRA , Vestische Straßenbahnen GmbH , the municipal tram company of the district of Gelsenkirchen , the tram of the city of Herne , the Westphalian tram , the Märkische trams and the trams of the Dortmund district . In 1912 the line in Herne was extended to the local train station. During the First World War there were repeated difficulties, but operations could continue.

In 1921, when the new facilities in Herne were completed, the level crossing was no longer necessary. The route was also expanded to two-track in several sections.

The Second World War had little impact on tram operations. There was only damage from artillery fire. Two wagons that were misused as anti-tank traps also fell victim to the war.

current paintwork since 2000

The poor maintenance of the track system caused greater damage. In 1949 bus operations were to begin. Due to its lines, which operated parallel to the tram, the tram had to be discontinued on September 30, 1959. Since then, the Herne-Castrop-Rauxel tram , or HCR for short , as it was called from May 3, 1928 - with the addition of GmbH since January 1, 1954 - has been a pure bus operation. Part of the traffic area is now being developed by BOGESTRA.

Line offer

Since December 15, 2019, the HCR has been operating the following bus routes:

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Line route
 		Tact
303 Wanne-Eickel Hbf - Bobenfeld - Road Traffic Office - Koniner Str. (Job Center) - Regenkamp - Bochumer Strasse - Hölkeskampring / Marienhospital - Düngelstrasse - Kreuzkirche - Hermann-Löns-Strasse - Herne Bf 30/30/30
311 Ilseder Straße / Zechenring - Horsthausen Süd - Herne Bf - Sodingen Mitte - Schadeburg - Teutoburgia - Holthausen Mitte 10/15/30
311 DIRECT TRAVEL - Ilseder Strasse / Zechenring - Horsthausen Süd - Herne Bf - Sodingen Mitte - An der Linde / depot - RS Sodingen - Von-Bodelschwingh-Str. - Holthausen Mitte - Castrop-Rauxel Münsterplatz
312 Herten / Wanne-Eickel forest cemetery - Dannekamp settlement - Crange - Wanne-Eickel central station - Baukau West - Herne station - Altenhöfen - village of Vöde 20/30/30
321 (Herne Mitte) Herne Bf - Roonstrasse industrial area - Horsthausen-Süd - Ilseder Strasse (Zechenring) - Friedrich the Great - Dorfstrasse. - At the Linde - Mont-Cenis Academy - Ostbachtal - Am Revierpark - Gysenberg Zoo - Constantin Settlement - Bochum Gerthe / Mitte 30/60/60
322 Herne Bf - Heerstraße / Cranger Kirmes bus station - Wanne-Eickel Hbf

Only during the Cranger Kirmes and Cranger Christmas Magic

10/10/20
323 Bickern - Wanne-Eickel Hbf - Crange - Baukau Ost - Herne Bf - EvK Wiescherstr. - Constantin settlement - Bochum Hiltrop / church 20/30/30
324 Castrop-Rauxel Münsterplatz - Holthausen Süd (cemetery) - Sodingen Mitte - Gysenberpark LAGO - Ostbachtal - Herne Bf (Herne Mitte) 20/30 (60) / 30
328 Wanne-Eickel Hbf - Our Fritz 30/30/30
329 Herne, Auf der Wenge - Our Fritz 30/30/30
337 Vinckestrasse (temporarily) - Herne Bf - Archeology Museum - Wiescherstr./EvK - Hölkeskampring - Bochumer Str. - Südstr. - Feldkampstr. (Roundabout) 60/60/60
341 Castrop-Rauxel Münsterplatz - Schwerin retirement home 60/60/60
347 Castrop-Rauxel Münsterplatz - Rauxel EvK 60/60/60
351 (Herne Mitte) - Herne Bf - Beienweg (NABU Eastern Ruhr Area) - Horsthausen Friedhof - (Castroperstr) - An der Linde - Schadeburg - Teutoburgia - Holthausen Elchweg (temporarily) - CAS industrial area Westring - CAS Behringhausen - Münsterplatz 30/60/60
361 Cas.Münsterplatz - Castrop depot - Deininghausen - Dortmund-Castrop city limits - Mengede Markt (temporarily only to Deininghausen) 30/30/30
362 Eichenforst settlement - Pantrings Hof - Horsthausen north - Baukau east - Herne station - Holsterhausen - Wanne south - Wanne-Eickel main station 15/30/30
367 (Herne Mitte) - Herne Bf - EVK Wiescherstraße - Marienhospital - Herne Südpool - Bochum Bergen (Bergener Straße) - Bochum Hiltrop Church

(reinforced by the Bogestra line 366)

60/60/60
391 Herne train station - Holsterhausen - Röhlinghausen - Eickel - Wanne-Eickel HBF

(strengthens the Bogestra line 390)

30 / - / -

The line | 322 || only operates during the Cranger Kirmes (ten days from the first Friday in August) and the Cranger Christmas Magic .

Since June 2006, HCR has expanded its range of services to include the following night express lines:

NE31 Herne train station - Sodingen, Academy Mont-Cenis - Holthausen center - Börnig Dorfstrasse - Horsthausen, Lütge Bruch - Herne train station
NE32 Herne train station - Horsthausen, Zietenstraße - Eichenforst settlement - Herne train station - Am Düngelbruch - Gysenberg zoo - Herne train station
NE33 Herne train station - Holsterhausen, Juliastraße - Solbad - Wanne-Eickel main train station - Baukau, Hülsmanns Hof - Herne train station
NE34 Wanne-Eickel Hauptbahnhof - Bickern, Moßkampweg - Röhlinghausen Markt - Eickel Church - Wanne-Eickel Hauptbahnhof - Crange, Westhafen - Unser-Fritz, Georgstraße - Wanne-Eickel Hauptbahnhof

They run in the nights from Friday to Saturday, from Saturday to Sunday, before public holidays and after special announcement and operate as ring lines. Further bus, tram and light rail traffic in Herne and Castrop-Rauxel is carried out by the Bogestra (1 light rail and tram line each and 7 bus lines), the Vestische (5 bus lines) and the DSW21 (4 bus lines).

literature

  • Dieter Höltge: Trams and light rail vehicles in Germany, Volume 4 Ruhrgebiet EK-Verlag, Freiburg i.Br. 1994, ISBN 3-8825-5334-0 .

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