Oberhausen West train station
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 Valley tracks in Oberhausen West station (2014)
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| Operating point type | railway station |
| Design | one-sided marshalling yard |
| abbreviation | EOBR |
| opening | July 1, 1879 |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Oberhausen |
| country | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 28 '36 " N , 6 ° 49' 57" E |
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| Railway stations in North Rhine-Westphalia | |
The Oberhausen Westbahnhof is a freight and rail yard in the west of Oberhausen in North Rhine-Westphalia . In the first few years after its commissioning, it also served as a passenger station .
Location and structure
The train station is located in the Lirich district in the west of the city of Oberhausen. The lines approaching the station lead in from the east from Oberhausen-Sterkrade and the Walsumbahn , from Oberhausen-Osterfeld , Bottrop Hbf , Bottrop Süd , Essen-Altenessen and Oberhausen Hbf . To the west there are travel options to Moers , Duisburg-Ruhrort Hafen , Duisburg Hbf and Duisburg-Wedau . In addition to the journey via the train station, the destinations mentioned are also connected to one another via the tracks on the open line . The tracks run south of the train station and are linked to each other via the Oberhausen Mathilde junction.
| VzG route | course |
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| Oberhausen West station | |
| 2283 | Oberhausen Hbf - Oberhausen West Abzw Oro |
| 2302 | Duisburg-Ruhrort Hafen - Oberhausen West |
| 2304 | Duisburg-Meiderich East - Oberhausen West |
| 2320 | Duisburg-Wedau - Oberhausen West - Oberhausen-Osterfeld |
| Abzw Oberhausen Mathilde | |
| 2278 | Oberhausen Hbf Obo - Oberhausen Mathilde |
| 2321 | Duisburg-Wedau - Oberhausen Hbf Obn |
| 2327 | Duisburg-Ruhrort harbor - Oberhausen rolling mill |
| 2331 | Meerbeck (Abzw) - Oberhausen rolling mill |
The station is designed as a one-sided marshalling yard. The entry group is located in the east, to the west of it is the exit group, to the south of it the transformer group (barrier). In the amount of disused since 2006 hump lead several sidings of ThyssenKrupp Steel (DK connection, according to the former Union of German Kaiser named) into the station.
The station is divided into several parts of the station , which are based on the individual, partly former signal box areas . The Ostkopf is controlled from the Oro and Maf signal boxes, with the Oro command signal box only controlling the tracks that only lead into the station. The former Orm command center for the routes between the approach group and the barrier is located at the height of the discharge hill. The exit group (valley tracks) were controlled from the R1 marshalling interlocking until 2010. Since then, the switches have been controlled from Orm via the RaStw operator station computer. The Orw command center regulated the exits in the direction of Duisburg and Moers. Subordinate to it were the interlockings 1 and 2, with control tower 1 serving the entry and exit signals and signal box 2 the intermediate signals to the west. The signal boxes were electromechanical signal boxes of the S&H 1912 type ( Siemens & Halske ); Signal box 2 was an electromechanical four-row signal box of the VES from 1942. The line signal box Maf from 1974, which monitors the adjacent line sections in addition to the eponymous branch and the station section Abzw Oro, is a relay interlocking of the type SpDrS60 ( Siemens ). When it went into operation, it replaced 17 mechanical signal boxes. The DK connection is controlled by an MCDS ( Bombardier ) electronic signal box . In September 2019, the electronic signal box Owf (EBI Lock 950) took over the tasks of signal boxes 1, 2, Orw and Orm.
The DK connection has 15 tracks. It is only about 100 meters electrified, so trains with electric traction have to be pushed into the station. Around 17 million tons of freight (2016) are processed annually via the connection.
The number of connections used to be greater; in 1912 there were twelve. Among other things, the former Concordia colliery , whose colliery railway crossed the station in a tunnel built between 1902 and 1905 to connect the pits to the south and north.
- Signal boxes
Owf (2014)
Stw 1 (2014)
Stw 2 (2014)
Orw (2014)
Orm (2014)
R1 (2014)
Oro (2019)
Maf (2014)
history
The station was opened on July 1, 1879 by the Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft together with its Duisburg – Quakenbrück line. From 1880 it was called Oberhausen Rh to distinguish it from the Oberhausen CM station of the former Cöln-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (today's Oberhausen Hauptbahnhof ), which was built in 1847 . After the nationalization of the private railway companies by the Prussian State Railways in the 1880s, the railways in the Ruhr area were completely reorganized. With the new construction of the Duisburg main train station on October 1, 1886, passenger traffic on the section up to the Oberhausen-Osterfeld Nord train station was discontinued and moved from the now Oberhausen West train station to Oberhausen Hauptbahnhof .
In 1892 the first Oberhausen West depot was built with a round shed and turntable.
The freight yard was rebuilt between 1902 and 1904, preserving the structure that still exists today.
In 1957 the first access routes were electrified.
The Oberhausen West depot was dissolved as an office in 1959. Until the beginning of the 1970s, it was used to store steam locomotives, and until 1978 as a deployment site. The engine shed burned down in 2007.
Until the end of 2006, the station was used to create new trains in regular operation; At that time, up to 1,500 freight wagons rolled over the drainage mountain. Since then, these tasks have been taken over by the neighboring Oberhausen-Osterfeld train station . Since then, Oberhausen West has primarily been used to park and reload trains. In addition, there is connecting traffic to the ThyssenKrupp plant network and to the Stollberg smelter.
In the course of the expansion of the Oberhausen - Emmerich line for rail freight traffic , the construction of an electronic interlocking was planned for the Oberhausen West station. The first construction stage includes the command interlockings Orm and Orw as well as the two guard interlockings 1 and 2. The RaStw operator station and the Oro interlocking will remain, as will the Maf interlocking. Commissioning took place in September 2019; according to initial plans, it was originally planned for 2012. In March 2020, the former signal box 2 was demolished.
Web links
- Tracks in service facilities (EOBR) , DB Netz AG (PDF; 260 kiB)
- Description of the EOBR operating point in the NRWbahnarchiv
- Overall plan for Oberhausen Hbf and West: Project 1929, partially not carried out
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thomas Feldmann: Goods hub of the Ruhr area . In: railway magazine . No. 4 , 2017, ISSN 0342-1902 , p. 43 .
- ↑ Thomas Feldmann: Goods hub of the Ruhr area . In: railway magazine . No. 4 , 2017, ISSN 0342-1902 , p. 42 .
- ↑ Freight trains roll endlessly over the Osterfelder Berg . In: WAZ . Local edition Oberhausen . March 28, 2002 ( betuwe.de [accessed February 27, 2015]).
- ^ Holger Kötting: List of German signal boxes. Entries O. In: stellwerke.de. March 21, 2020, accessed July 26, 2020 .