Gladbeck Ost train station

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Gladbeck East
Platform in Gladbeck Ost
Platform in Gladbeck Ost
Data
Operating point type Railway station (1880–1984)
Halt (since 1984)
Location in the network Intermediate station
Design Through station
Platform tracks 1
abbreviation EGBO
IBNR 8002283
Price range 7th
opening June 21, 1880
Profile on Bahnhof.de Gladbeck_Ost
location
City / municipality Gladbeck
country North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
Coordinates 51 ° 34 ′ 32 "  N , 6 ° 59 ′ 41"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 34 ′ 32 "  N , 6 ° 59 ′ 41"  E
Height ( SO ) 66.7  m above sea level NN
Railway lines
Railway stations in North Rhine-Westphalia
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The Gladbeck Ost stop is a former train station on the Winterswijk – Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck railway line , which until the 1980s had several sidings, including to the Graf Moltke colliery . Today's stop is one of three rail traffic stops in Gladbeck and is located east of the city center. The other two rail stops are Gladbeck West and Gladbeck-Zweckel .

Location and structure

The stopping point is at 9.4 km of the Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck - Borken Grenz (- Winterswijk) railway line ( VzG route 2236). The line runs on a single track in this section, the platform is on the eastern side and thus faces away from the city center. Access is at ground level via the parallel Bahnhofstrasse. Until 1985, the stop had a second track east of the platform. Until it was dismantled, access was in the form of a platform underpass at the southern end of the platform. The Buersche Straße then crosses the track , instead of the overpass there was a level crossing until 1974 .

history

Länderbahn era (1880-1920)

The station is the oldest rail traffic stop in Gladbeck. The Dutch-Westphalian Railway Company moved to construct the line from Bismarck to Winterswijk going through Gladbeck a direct connection via Buer before, since the web in this area the Vestische ridge overcomes. The line was opened on June 14, 1880, and scheduled traffic began on June 21 of the same year. The Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft was contractually responsible for operational management .

At the beginning the station had six tracks, the main tracks were arranged in such a way that there was an axis jump . The exits were therefore connected left-justified. The station building and a goods shed were located northeast of the tracks on Bahnhofstrasse. In September 1880 the siding to the Graf Moltke mine shaft 1/2 went into operation. From 1890, the construction of a second passing track and the connection of the colliery tracks to the northern exit followed. In 1882, the connection to the Küster steam sawmill, which handled the mining timber trade with the Hugo and Graf Bismarck collieries , went into operation.

Shortly after the beginning of the 20th century, the two buildings were provided with extensions, and the reception building also received a water connection. With the commissioning of the northern route Osterfeld – Hamm on May 1, 1905, the station was given the name Gladbeck Ost to distinguish it from the Gladbeck station there . The new Westbahnhof did not create a competitive situation, as Gladbeck Ost was closer to the town and primarily served traffic in the north-south direction.

The line was expanded to double tracks in 1907 on the section between Bismarck and Dorsten . Two mechanical signal boxes in the station (later called Gof and Gow ) went into operation beforehand . As part of the double-track expansion, the city of Gladbeck tried in vain to remove the level crossing on the Hochstraße, as the shunting trips to the Graf Moltke colliery resulted in long idle times.

In 1908 the city opened a slaughterhouse near the railway. The delivery of the cattle turned out to be problematic, as the Prussian State Railways could only provide a shunting locomotive twice a day ; the execution of further service trips as required could therefore not be guaranteed. After an alternative solution in the form of installation tracks at the slaughterhouse was rejected due to the height conditions, the city ​​tried to build a loading ramp on the colliery track, which led directly past the facility. Since these negotiations also failed, after the opening of the slaughterhouse, the cattle had to be unloaded at a loading ramp at the train station and driven across the streets to the slaughterhouse, which led to regular traffic obstructions. The necessary siding was not built until the end of the 1920s.

Reich and Federal Railways (1920–1994)

Remnants of the platform underpass on the platform

From April 1, 1920, the Deutsche Reichsbahn began operating instead of the regional railways. During the occupation of the Ruhr , the Gladbeck Ost train station and the Dutch-Westphalian line up to and including Dorsten were within the zone occupied by French and Belgian troops. After the war in the Ruhr led to drastic traffic restrictions, the occupying powers took the railroad operations into their own hands from November 21, 1923. This operation existed until October 16, 1924.

During the Second World War , there was no major damage to the station. Only the connecting line to the Graf Moltke colliery was so badly damaged by air raids that it was not restarted after the end of the war. Since then, the extracted coal has been transported exclusively via the connecting railway to Gelsenkirchen-Horst Nord station .

Both passenger and freight traffic decreased steadily from the 1950s onwards. In the mid-1960s, the Deutsche Bundesbahn gave up freight handling in Gladbeck Ost. In order to save personnel, the dispatcher control center Gof was switched through from 1974. The course attendants -Stellwerk Gow was still occupied because of the level crossing flyover.

In 1974 the level crossing on Hochstraße was lifted. Replacement came through the overpass of Buerschen Strasse further north. An underpass was built for pedestrians along the elevated road. Since the station building was very close to the bridge, it was demolished in 1978. A few years later, the Küster connection went out of service. With the dismantling of all side tracks, the station was converted into a stop with a block on August 1, 1983 . The Gow signal box went out of service about a year later, the Gof signal box followed on January 1, 1985. In the following two years, the second track between the Zweckel branch in the north and Bismarck went out of service. The platform underpass was then closed, but is still preserved.

Merger with ZOB

About 300 m further south, in the immediate vicinity of the Borken – Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck railway line, is the Gladbeck Oberhof ZOB , where all the bus routes in Gladbeck run. The stops are on the other side of the railway line on the side facing the city, roughly at the point where the Buer tram crossed the tracks of the railway line on the elevated road until 1974. The route between the bus stop and the bus stops leads through an underpass at the level of Hochstraße or, relatively inconvenient, over the bridge on Buerschen Straße to the north. In the underpass there are bricked-up stairs to the platforms, which have not been moved closer to the bus station since then. The city of Gladbeck therefore tried repeatedly to relocate the stop in the direction of the bus station. Implementation of the project was uncertain until 2012 because the continued operation of the regional train beyond 2015 was not guaranteed.

In the summer of 2013, Deutsche Bahn gave its consent to the relocation of the stop. The project is to be combined with the plans of the Vestische trams for the new construction of the bus station. It is planned to replace the pedestrian underpass with a level crossing and to build a new combination platform on the west side at the height of the bus station. The start of construction was planned for 2016, but currently (July 2017) no start of construction is in sight.

Considered renaming

In the course of some renaming of the Deutsche Bahn for better orientation in the VRR , this station should be named Gladbeck Mitte . The city of Gladbeck, however, rejected this plan. In the course of this renaming, the Gladbeck West station was to be renamed Gladbeck Hbf .

traffic

Rail passenger transport

From 1880 three pairs of trains stopped in Gladbeck. The trains ran between Essen and Winterswijk via Bismarck , Gladbeck, Dorsten and Borken . Two of the train pairs drove over Winterswijk to Amsterdam . With the entry into force of the winter timetable in 1883/84, a fourth pair of trains was added. From this time on, the trains were partially extended south to Wanne . The offer has been expanded over the years, so that from 1904 a total of nine pairs of trains passed through Gladbeck. Another pair of trains commuted between Gladbeck and Dorsten.

With the beginning of the First World War , the route came under military administration due to its location near the border. International traffic to the Netherlands was stopped immediately after the war began. Six pairs of trains now drove between Dorsten and Gladbeck, five of which drove over Gladbeck towards Bismarck. On November 2, 1914, KED Essen took over management again and adjusted the timetable. By 1917, Gladbeck Ost station had ten pairs of trains, seven pairs of trains between Bismarck and Borken or Burlo , two pairs of trains between Bismarck and Dorsten and a pair of workers' trains between Gladbeck Ost and Hervest-Dorsten .

Due to the occupation of the Ruhr by French and Belgians, the timetable remained sparse. In 1927 the timetable recorded a total of twelve pairs of trains on the section between Dorsten and Bismarck. From this time on, most passenger trains in the direction of Essen were directed via Gladbeck West and Bottrop Hauptbahnhof , only two pairs of trains went via Gladbeck East and Bismarck. On the part of Rbd Essen, Gladbeck Ost should only play a role in district and local traffic. In the 1930s the line was renovated and the line speed increased. The timetable now provided for 19 pairs of trains between Borken and Bismarck, which corresponded to an almost hourly service. Until 1941, the trains were integrated into the Ruhr express traffic. Due to the war, traffic came to a standstill in the spring of 1945.

At the end of 1945 the first passenger trains ran again in Gladbeck Ost. By 1950 the supply rose almost to the pre-war level. Due to the increasing competition from the automobile, the Federal Railroad stopped the amplifier trains between Wanne-Eickel Hauptbahnhof and Dorsten towards the end of the 1950s. The number of passengers decreased continuously until the 1980s, so that the Federal Railroad in 1984 considered the discontinuation of traffic. An agreement between the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the railway ultimately ensured continued operation until 1997. At that time, the timetable provided for a two-hour cycle between Wanne-Eickel and Dorsten. The last continuous train from Gladbeck Ost to Borken left on September 26, 1987.

With the introduction of the integral timetable , the connection was given the line number RB 43. Since then, the line has been running every hour and is connected via Wanne-Eickel to Dortmund main station . The Deutsche Bahn operated the line until 2006, since then the NordWestBahn has served the stop. Deutsche Bahn has been operating the line again since 2015.

Timetable offer 2015
line Line course Tact operator
RB 43 Emschertal Railway :
Dorsten  - Feldhausen  - Gladbeck-Zweckel  - Gladbeck Ost  - Gelsenkirchen-Buer Süd  - Gelsenkirchen Zoo  - Wanne-Eickel Hbf  - Herne  - Herne-Börnig  - Castrop-Rauxel Süd  - Castrop-Rauxel-Merklinde  - Dortmund-Bövinghausen  - Dortmund -Lütgendortmund Nord  - Dortmund-Marten  - Dortmund-Huckarde Nord  - Dortmund Hbf
Status: timetable change December 2015 		60 min DB Regio NRW

Rail freight transport

When the line opened, Gladbeck was initially approached by three pairs of freight trains. With the commissioning of the siding to the Graf Moltke colliery, two more pairs of trains were added. Almost the entire coal traffic of the colliery to the north was handled through the station. In the opposite direction, the Küster sawmill recorded large quantities of pit timber . Vegetables, milk and cattle were also handled in the station, the latter especially after the city slaughterhouse opened in 1908.

During the occupation of the Ruhr, goods traffic shifted mainly in the direction of the road, as a boycott of the Reichsbahn controlled by the occupiers was called. This development continued after the end of the occupation, as the trucks were better suited for nationwide sales. In 1930, sales of goods were thus less than half of the value in 1913.

After 1945 Gladbeck Ost was served almost exclusively by local freight trains. The connection to the Graf Moltke colliery was not restored after its destruction. The migration to the street continued, so that the Federal Railroad closed the goods handling in Gladbeck Ost in the mid-1960s. The Küster connection lasted until the early 1980s and was then abandoned.

Tram and bus transport

The Recklinghausen tram (from 1915 as Vestische Kleinbahnen ) opened the tram between Gladbeck and Bottrop on May 28, 1909 . From September 2, 1909, there was another connection between Gladbeck and Horst . The final stop was on Hochstrasse in front of the level crossing. From May 20, 1925, the tram reached the station from Buer , the final stop was in Bahnhofstrasse in front of the reception building. However, a track connection was not established because the Reichsbahn prohibited a crossing. The implementation of trams therefore took place via the connection Buer-Horst der Bogestra . In 1939 the Vestischen intended to purchase this line to connect their two subnets. The purchase did not materialize. This connection was damaged by air raids in 1943. The Reichsbahndirektion Essen subsequently approved the construction of a track at the level of the Hohe Straße level crossing. The track was not electrified, so the cars had to be moved by hand.

The connecting track was electrified and the section was opened to passenger traffic on October 20, 1957. Line 10 of the Vestischen with a route between Oberhausen-Osterfeld and Recklinghausen Hauptbahnhof passed the level crossing as planned. The transfer terminal in Bahnhofstrasse remained in place after the commissioning. With the construction of the overpass in 1974, the tram was relocated to a double-track special railway body in the middle of Buerschen Straße. The expansion took place as part of the Rhein-Ruhr urban railway concept . On the basis of an expert report drawn up in 1976, the Vestische trams decided shortly afterwards to completely cease tram operations. On October 1, 1978, the Vestische trams switched to bus operations .

As of 2014, two bus lines stop at Gladbeck Ost station. The SB91 express bus runs from Oberhausen via Bottrop and Gladbeck to Gelsenkirchen-Buer . The line is operated jointly by Vestische and Stadtwerke Oberhausen . The second line is bus 255 from the Gladbeck Oberhof bus station via Gelsenkirchen-Scholven to Gelsenkirchen-Buer.

Remarks

  1. ↑ since 1926: Wanne-Eickel Hbf
  2. ↑ since 1940: Vestische trams
  3. ↑ a b incorporated in Gelsenkirchen in 1929

Web links

Commons : Bahnhof Gladbeck Ost  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

NRWbahnarchiv:

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Station category list 2017 (PDF; 343 KiB) DB Station & Service AG , December 16, 2016, accessed on May 24, 2017 .
  2. ^ Rolf Swoboda: Railway Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck - Winterswijk . Kenning Verlag, Nordhorn 1993, ISBN 3-927587-11-7 , p. 7-9 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e Rolf Swoboda: Railway Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck - Winterswijk . Kenning Verlag, Nordhorn 1993, ISBN 3-927587-11-7 , p. 29-31 .
  4. ^ Rolf Swoboda: Railway Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck - Winterswijk . Kenning Verlag, Nordhorn 1993, ISBN 3-927587-11-7 , p. 38-41 .
  5. ^ Rolf Swoboda: Railway Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck - Winterswijk . Kenning Verlag, Nordhorn 1993, ISBN 3-927587-11-7 , p. 45-47 .
  6. ^ A b Rolf Swoboda: Railway Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck - Winterswijk . Kenning Verlag, Nordhorn 1993, ISBN 3-927587-11-7 , p. 60-70 .
  7. ↑ a b André Joost: StellwerkArchiv Gladbeck Ost Gof. In: NRWbahnarchiv. Retrieved May 26, 2014 .
  8. ↑ a b c Rolf Swoboda: Railway Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck - Winterswijk . Kenning Verlag, Nordhorn 1993, ISBN 3-927587-11-7 , p. 80-83 .
  9. ^ A b Rolf Swoboda: Railway Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck - Winterswijk . Kenning Verlag, Nordhorn 1993, ISBN 3-927587-11-7 , p. 92-93 .
  10. ^ André Joost: Operating Offices Archive Gladbeck Ost. In: NRWbahnarchiv. Retrieved May 26, 2014 .
  11. ↑ André Joost: StellwerkArchiv Gladbeck Ost Gow. In: NRWbahnarchiv. Retrieved May 26, 2014 .
  12. ↑ Wolfgang Laufs: Route with development potential. In: WAZ.de. January 14, 2014, accessed September 16, 2014 .
  13. ↑ Georg Meinert: RB 43 rolls - without a new stop. In: WAZ.de. November 16, 2012, accessed May 30, 2014 .
  14. ↑ Georg Meinert: Vestische relies on the bus station with short distances. In: WAZ.de. August 18, 2013, accessed May 30, 2014 .
  15. ↑ Georg Meinert: The tunnel will soon be obsolete. In: NRZ.de. July 30, 2013, accessed May 30, 2014 .
  16. ↑ Relocation of the train station and renovation of the Oberhof from 2016. In: WAZ.de. August 20, 2014, accessed September 15, 2014 .
  17. ↑ Marcus Esser: Conversion of Bahnhof Ost from 2016. In: WAZ.de. September 15, 2013, accessed September 15, 2014 .
  18. ↑ Georg Meinert: Kombibahnsteig allows quick transfers. In: WAZ.de. April 21, 2014, accessed September 15, 2014 .
  19. ^ Dagobert Ernst: Struggle for station names. In: NRZ.de. April 28, 2008, accessed July 3, 2014 .
  20. ^ A b Rolf Swoboda: Railway Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck - Winterswijk . Kenning Verlag, Nordhorn 1993, ISBN 3-927587-11-7 , p. 11-14 .
  21. ^ Rolf Swoboda: Railway Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck - Winterswijk . Kenning Verlag, Nordhorn 1993, ISBN 3-927587-11-7 , p. 41-44 .
  22. ^ Rolf Swoboda: Railway Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck - Winterswijk . Kenning Verlag, Nordhorn 1993, ISBN 3-927587-11-7 , p. 53-60 .
  23. ^ André Joost: Line info RB43 - Emschertal-Bahn. In: NRWbahnarchiv. Retrieved May 30, 2014 .
  24. ↑ NordWestBahn delivers RB43 “Emschertal-Bahn” to DB Regio NRW. Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr, December 8, 2015, accessed on December 13, 2015 .
  25. ^ Rolf Swoboda: Railway Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck - Winterswijk . Kenning Verlag, Nordhorn 1993, ISBN 3-927587-11-7 , p. 14-15 .
  26. ^ Rolf Swoboda: Railway Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck - Winterswijk . Kenning Verlag, Nordhorn 1993, ISBN 3-927587-11-7 , p. 44-45 .
  27. ↑ Ralph Bernatz: The way to the Vestische . In: The Vestische. Legendary tram between Lippe and Emscher 1901–1982. Tram magazine special no. 25 . GeraMond, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-86245-255-2 , pp. 16-27 .
  28. ↑ Klaus Oehlert-Schellberg: The Vestische trams . Kenning Verlag, Nordhorn 1995, ISBN 3-927587-49-4 , p. 15-19 .
  29. ↑ Thomas Risse: Intersection instead of separation . In: The Vestische. Legendary tram between Lippe and Emscher 1901–1982. Tram magazine special no. 25 . GeraMond, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-86245-255-2 , pp. 52-53 .
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