Duisburg-Meiderich Süd train station
| Duisburg-Meiderich South | |
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 former reception building, 2017
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| Operating point type | railway station |
| Location in the network | Separation station |
| Design | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 2 |
| abbreviation | EDME |
| IBNR | 8000367 |
| Price range | 4th |
| opening | 1856 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Duisburg-Meiderich_Sued |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Duisburg |
| Place / district | Meiderich |
| country | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 28 '7 " N , 6 ° 46' 46" E |
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| Railway stations in North Rhine-Westphalia | |
The Duisburg-Meiderich Süd station is a regional station in the Mittelmeiderich district of Duisburg in the western Ruhr area in North Rhine-Westphalia .
It is located on the Oberhausen – Duisburg-Ruhrort railway line, which is now only served by passenger traffic, at the junction of the Oberhausen West – Meerbeck freight line .
history
Private railways
The Cologne-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (CME) inaugurated the Oberhausen – Duisburg-Ruhrort railway on October 14, 1848 . This was a branch line to the Duisburg – Dortmund line , part of the main line of the Cologne-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft . It was intended mainly to transport coal to the Rhine and was consequently initially carried out without intermediate stops. After the completion of the Ruhrort-Homberger Trajektanstalt on November 12, 1852, the route also became interesting for passengers, and so the CME opened the Meiderich stop on today's Bahnhofstrasse in 1856 .
In 1866, the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (BME) took over the royal management of the Aachen-Düsseldorf-Ruhrorter Eisenbahn , along with its Duisburg-Ruhrort-Mönchengladbach line . Starting from the Styrum train station , the BME extended its Ruhr area route initially to Meiderich and ten months later to Ruhrort.
Together with the first section, the BME opened the Meiderich station on January 8, 1867, right next to the CME stop, and erected the first station building in the same year . In 1872 the BME expanded its route from Styrum to Ruhrort by a second track, in 1881 the second track followed on the CME route from Oberhausen CME station (now Oberhausen Hauptbahnhof ) to Ruhrort. Thus, now led four tracks from the station Meiderich to station Ruhrort.
Prussian State Railways
After the nationalization of the (at least nominally) private railway companies and the merger of the individual route networks from the Prussian State Railways , the old station building was replaced in 1895 by a new building on today's Von-der-Mark-Straße. This was torn down again in 1910, because the track was raised so that road traffic could not cross. In the following year, the reception building that still exists today was completed; It is considered "one of the 'best preserved examples' of the 'Heimatstil' railway buildings." In the same year, on November 1, 1911, it was renamed Duisburg-Meiderich Süd station.
At that time, the station developed into a traffic hub north of the Ruhr. In 1905 a connection to the Duisburg-Ruhrorter Hafenbahnhof was created, this was given a second track in 1908. On September 1, 1913, the connection to the Buschmannshof junction on the Duisburg-Meiderich Nord-Hohenbudberg railway line, built a year earlier, followed in the west , and in the east to the Oberhausen West station (formerly Oberhausen RhE station ) on the Duisburg-Quakenbrück railway line or Duisburg railway line -Wedau-Bottrop South .
On May 15, 1929, a connection line from the newly built Baerl stop on the route to Hohenbudberg to the Meerbeck junction on the Lower Rhine route was put into operation, and on May 29, 1929 the first passenger train from Meiderich Süd to Moers station went into operation .
German Federal Railroad
After the Second World War , the second track on the line from Oberhausen West to Meerbeck (VzG 2331) between Meiderich South and Meiderich East was dismantled, on this section mainly used by freight traffic. In 1969 the second track on the line from Oberhausen to Duisburg-Ruhrort (VzG 2274), which was mainly used for passenger traffic on this section, was rededicated to the freight line.
With the line from Oberhausen West to Meerbeck, electrification found its way into the station on December 1, 1970 , followed by the line from Oberhausen Hauptbahnhof on December 14, 1970. It was not until ten years later, on April 28, 1980, that the lines to Styrum and the port station were provided with overhead lines . At that time, the Duisburg-Meiderich Süd train station had already lost a large part of its importance due to the collapse in the Ruhr area , and the increasing volume of road haulage did the rest.
On June 30, 1985, the second track of the former Bergisch-Märkischen lines between Meiderich Süd and Ruhrort was dismantled. On the former Cologne-Minden line, the second track on this section was dismantled on November 1, 1989.
On September 23, 1983, passenger traffic between Meiderich Süd and Moers was stopped after just over 50 years. On April 1, traffic on the route between Ruhrort and Mülheim (Ruhr) -Styrum ceased; The line was closed on May 1, 1996. This had become necessary due to the construction of the Ruhr tunnel of the Duisburg city railway . In order to have enough space for the ramp leading into daylight, the embankment on the line to Mülheim (Ruhr) -Styrum, which starts immediately to the east of the station, was completely removed.
From May 22, 1997, freight traffic on the route to the Ruhrort port station was relocated to another direct connection to the Duisburg-Wedau-Bottrop Süd railway line , and the route was then closed on March 1, 1999.
Todays situation
Of the former five platform tracks, only tracks 4 and 5 are left on an island platform . The southern island platform was also dismantled after the embankment had been removed.
The freight train route between Oberhausen West and Meerbeck passes north of the platform. To the east of the platform, the freight train line is operationally connected to the line from Oberhausen Hauptbahnhof to Duisburg-Ruhrort, on which only passenger traffic takes place today.
The station building with the station forecourt is located south of the track system. It has not been used in its original function for a long time. It was sold, there is a restaurant and since 2012 the practice of a physiotherapist. Since the reception building was abandoned, the access tunnel to the platforms has ended directly next to it with direct access to the forecourt.
Since the previous access to the platform was not barrier-free and renovation would not have been economical, the old access tunnel was closed. Instead, a staircase was created together with an elevator directly from Singstrasse, which passes under the station to the east of the station forecourt. The new entrance is therefore 100 meters north of the newly created central connection point for buses and trams.
location
Contrary to what the name suggests, the station is not in the south of Meiderich, but in the center of the district, at the same level as today's Duisburg-Meiderich Ost stop and just under a kilometer south of the former Duisburg-Meiderich Nord station.
The station forecourt is framed in the north by the reception building, in the east by Singstrasse and in the south by Von-der-Mark-Strasse. Barrier-free access to the platform is from Singstraße. At the southern end of the forecourt there is a linking hall with several bus stops and the Meiderich Bahnhof underground station below .
service
In the local rail passenger traffic , the station is served exclusively by the regional train RB 36 , called "Ruhrort-Bahn", every half hour. In 2010, NordWestBahn won the tender until 2025 and is using LINT 41 diesel multiple units .
| line | Line course | Tact | operator |
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| RB 36 |
Ruhrort-Bahn : Oberhausen Hbf - Duisburg-Obermeiderich - Duisburg-Meiderich Ost - Duisburg-Meiderich Süd - Duisburg-Ruhrort Status: timetable change December 2015 |
30 min | NWB |
The Meiderich Bahnhof underground station is in the immediate vicinity . This is approached by a light rail line , a tram line and several bus lines in local public transport .
All transport lines serving the station can be used with the tickets of the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr .
See also
literature
- Contemporary witness exchange Duisburg: The Duisburg railways in historical photographs , Sutton Verlag Erfurt, 2017, ISBN 978-3-95400-789-9
Web links
NRWbahnarchiv by André Joost:
further evidence:
- Track plan from 1987
- Pictures of the train station and its surroundings
- Pictures of the train station and the route
Individual evidence
- ^ Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, Duisburg, June 9, 2012