Rhade station

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Rhade
Platform in Rhade, 2015
Platform in Rhade, 2015
Data
Location in the network Intermediate station
Design Through station
Platform tracks 2
abbreviation RECEIVE
IBNR 8005055
Price range 6th
opening June 21, 1880
Profile on Bahnhof.de Rhade
location
City / municipality Dorsten
Place / district Rhade
country North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
Coordinates 51 ° 45 '4 "  N , 6 ° 56' 53"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 45 '4 "  N , 6 ° 56' 53"  E
Height ( SO ) 50.2  m above sea level NN
Railway lines
Railway stations in North Rhine-Westphalia
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Rhade is a train station in the district of Rhade in the northwest of the North Rhine-Westphalian city ​​of Dorsten . The station, which opened in 1880, is used for local passenger transport and was also a freight station until the 1960s .

Location and structure

The operating site is located in kilometer 29.847 of the VzG route 2236 ( Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck  - Borken (Westf) - Winterswijk ), east of the Rhader town center. The southern border of the station is in km 29.0 ( Esig A ), the northern one in km 30.5 (Esig F). The station has two main tracks , of which the eastern track 1 is the continuous main track. Both tracks are located on a common central platform that is 125 meters long and 76 centimeters high. Access to the platform is at ground level via platform 2.

After several dismantling measures, the operating center no longer has any more tracks, and there is also no reception building. To the west of the tracks is a DB Pluspunkt with waiting halls as a shelter. The signaling equipment was monitored by two mechanical signal boxes . The command interlocking  Rf ( R hade F ahrdienstleiter) is at the northern end, the guard interlocking  St ( S OD t URM) to the South Head station.

There are three level crossings (Bü) within the station boundaries. The Bü Im Brok (km 29.079) and Lembecker Straße (km 30.0) are operated from the signal boxes St and Rf via cranks and have full barriers; the Bü Schlehenweg (km 30.47) has half barriers and is signal-monitored .

  • Track field and signal box St, 2015

  • Signal box Rf, 2015

history

The station went into operation together with the Winterswijk - Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck line of the Dutch-Westphalian Railway Company on June 21, 1880. Decisive for the construction were the surrounding forests, from which pit wood was to be extracted for the coal mines in the Ruhr area . The smallest operating point on the route at that time comprised a reception building, a civil servants' residence, a continuous main track, an intersection track and a loading street . To the north of the reception building in the direction of Rhade-Lembecker Chaussee (today: Lembecker Strasse) were the station garden and a stable. The station restaurant went into operation in 1902, followed by extensions in the Ladestrasse area in 1909. In 1912, the Royal Railway Direction (KED) Essen had a shed built in the station garden. Around the same time, the KED also initiated the expansion of the railway facilities. Tracks 1 and 2 were extended by 300 meters to the south and thus achieved a usable length of 640 (track 1) and 550 meters (track 2) respectively. The usable length of the track on the loading street has been tripled by the measure. Along with the expansion, the mechanical signal boxes Nt ( N ord t urm, later Rf ) and St.

In the early 1930s, the station building was completely renovated. The roof construction received the stepped gables common in Westmünsterland . On the other hand, the railway facilities were not expanded to include a second crossing track and an open loading track.

During the Second World War there were repeated air raids on the station and the line. In a British bombing raid on October 5, 1944, the railroad workers' house was so badly damaged that it was uninhabitable. On 5 December, it came in the morning to a collision between two trains at the northern head, were to complain to the eight dead too. A few hours after the accident, the station was again the target of an air raid. Further attacks with considerable property damage took place on January 11th and 17th and on March 2nd, 1945. In most cases, however, operations resumed quickly. Only after the Dorsten train station was bombed on March 9th and 12th, 1945, rail traffic on the line came to a complete standstill.

From July 1945, the first trains rolled over the line again. Since the bridges over the Lippe and the Wesel-Datteln Canal were destroyed, the trains to the south ended in Hervest-Dorsten . From May 9, 1948, the trains could continue to Dorsten.

After the Second World War, the migration of traffic to the streets became increasingly noticeable. As a result, goods handling closed in the mid-1960s. In 1977 BD Essen had the station building torn down and parts of the track system dismantled.

In May 2004 the surrounding area was modernized and a commuter parking lot with 54 parking spaces and several bicycle racks was put into operation. From August 12, 2013, Deutsche Bahn had the platform system modernized for around 1.6 million euros. The previous Schütt platforms gave way to a common central platform with guidance system for the blind . The platform height is 76 centimeters, so that stepless entry is possible. The barrier-free access is via a ramp and a traveler crossing over track 2. For the construction had to be moved by about one and a half meters to the east, the track first The work was completed by the timetable change on December 15, 2013. In December 2018, the station was connected to the Coesfeld ESTW , the signal boxes were retained as barrier posts.

  • Platforms before the renovation, 2008

  • Old and new platform, 2015

  • Exit to Borken with track 1 pivoted, 2015

  • DB Pluspunkt, 2015

traffic

passenger traffic

From 1880, the station was initially served by three pairs of passenger trains every day. Another pair of trains was added in the winter of 1883/84; six pairs of trains ran in the summer of 1901, and seven two years later. The trains offered direct connections to Dorsten , Gelsenkirchen , Essen and Wanne in the south and to Winterswijk , Zutphen and Amsterdam in the north. With the beginning of the First World War , the Prussian State Railways stopped international traffic and initially reduced the number of services. From November 1914, the offer stabilized again with eight pairs of trains.

After the end of the war, the first international trains ran again in 1919, but their number did not exceed four daily train pairs. As a result of the occupation of the Ruhr and the resulting regional operations , the number of trains fell again. It was not until 1927 that the Deutsche Reichsbahn was able to increase the offer again. By the beginning of the Second World War, the number of trains rose to 19 pairs of trains, most recently these were integrated into the Ruhr express traffic.

After the Second World War, passenger traffic was limited to journeys within Germany. In addition to the passenger trains on the Borken - Dorsten - Wanne-Eickel route, the Deutsche Bundesbahn also used individual pairs of express trains on the route in the 1950s and 1960s . Nevertheless, the number of passengers continued to decline. With the establishment of the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr (VRR) in 1980, Rhade was the northern border tariff point in the direction of Borken. Commuters from Borken and the surrounding area therefore increasingly used the car as far as Rhade and then drove with the cheaper network tariff. It was not until the beginning of 2012 that the VRR and the SPNV Münsterland (ZVM) special purpose association regulated the transition between the two network tariffs. In the 1980s, traffic increasingly shifted in the direction of Essen, before the last continuous train to Wanne-Eickel ran in 1987. With the changeover, the Federal Railroad introduced a purely hourly service on the route. The southern terminus of the trains was alternately Essen and Oberhausen .

The operation took place until 2006 by the Deutsche Bundesbahn and the Deutsche Bahn. In December 2006, the NordWestBahn took over the line, which has been known as RE14 since 1998. There is an hourly connection to Borken, Dorsten and Essen. At the station there is a possibility to change to several bus lines of the Vestische trams and the regional traffic Münsterland with connections to Dorsten, Deuten , Lembeck , Wulfen as well as to Raesfeld and Reken in the district of Borken .

Timetable offer 2015
line course Tact operator
RE 14 Der Borkener :
Borken (Westf)  - Marbeck-Heiden  - Rhade  - Deuten  - Hervest-Dorsten  - Dorsten  - Feldhausen  - Gladbeck-Zweckel  - Gladbeck West  - Bottrop Hbf  - Essen-Borbeck  - Essen West  (only trains to / from Dorsten)  - Essen Main station  - Essen-Steele
temporary wing in Dorsten: second train part as RB 45 from / to Coesfeld
Status: timetable change December 2019 		60 min  (Borken - Dorsten)
30 min  (Dorsten - Essen) 		NordWestBahn

Freight transport

From 1880, three pairs of freight trains served the station every day. At the exit in Rhade, mainly agricultural products such as cattle , milk and vegetables as well as pit wood were handled, while at the entrance there were correspondingly large quantities of finished goods and general cargo . In the 1930s, the Reichsbahn slightly rationalized operations after some of the traffic migrated to the streets. She stationed a small locomotive in Rhade for the handover trips to the neighboring Deuten station .

Up until the 1960s, the handling of livestock was of particular importance. For night acceptance of the freight papers one was in the Switchboard St specially hatch installed. Traffic came to a standstill until the end of the 1960s due to migration to the streets. Since the demand for pit wood also decreased as a result of the coal crisis , the goods handling department closed its doors in the same decade.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b André Joost: Rhade operating offices archive. In: NRWbahnarchiv. Retrieved May 14, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Platform information . Rhade station. (No longer available online.) Deutsche Bahn AG, March 12, 2015, archived from the original on May 18, 2015 ; Retrieved May 3, 2015 .
  3. ^ André Joost: StellwerkArchiv Rhade Rf. In: NRWbahnarchiv. Retrieved May 15, 2015 .
  4. ^ André Joost: StellwerkArchiv Rhade St. In: NRWbahnarchiv. Retrieved May 15, 2015 .
  5. ^ Rolf Swoboda: Railway Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck - Winterswijk . Kenning Verlag, Nordhorn 1993, ISBN 3-927587-11-7 , p. 4-7 .
  6. ↑ a b c Rolf Swoboda: Railway Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck - Winterswijk . Kenning Verlag, Nordhorn 1993, ISBN 3-927587-11-7 , p. 21-22 .
  7. ^ Rolf Swoboda: Railway Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck - Winterswijk . Kenning Verlag, Nordhorn 1993, ISBN 3-927587-11-7 , p. 52 .
  8. ↑ Rhade in the war - Pastor Josef Debbing's chronicle describes the events of the war, including billeting, plane crashes and bombs on train stations and farms. In: Dorsten under the swastika. Wolf Stegemann, May 28, 2012, accessed on May 16, 2015 .
  9. ^ Rolf Swoboda: Railway Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck - Winterswijk . Kenning Verlag, Nordhorn 1993, ISBN 3-927587-11-7 , p. 45-47 .
  10. ↑ a b c Rolf Swoboda: Railway Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck - Winterswijk . Kenning Verlag, Nordhorn 1993, ISBN 3-927587-11-7 , p. 60-70 .
  11. ^ Rolf Swoboda: Railway Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck - Winterswijk . Kenning Verlag, Nordhorn 1993, ISBN 3-927587-11-7 , p. 92-93 .
  12. ^ A never-ending story? - a little chronology. (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: CDU aktuell. CDU local association Rhade, December 2012, p. 2 , archived from the original on May 18, 2015 ; accessed on May 16, 2015 .
  13. ↑ Martin Ahlers: Work begins for a “step-free” Rhade station. In: WAZ.de. August 13, 2013, accessed May 16, 2015 .
  14. ↑ Modernization of the Rhade traffic station completed. Working Group Rail Transport Münsterland eV, accessed on May 16, 2015 .
  15. ↑ Connection of the routes Abzw. Zweckel - Dorsten - Maria-Veen and Dorsten - Borken to the ESTW Coesfeld / delays in the section Dorsten - Coesfeld. In: asm-muenster.de. Münsterland Rail Transport Association, accessed on April 22, 2019 .
  16. ^ Rolf Swoboda: Railway Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck - Winterswijk . Kenning Verlag, Nordhorn 1993, ISBN 3-927587-11-7 , p. 11-14 .
  17. ^ Rolf Swoboda: Railway Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck - Winterswijk . Kenning Verlag, Nordhorn 1993, ISBN 3-927587-11-7 , p. 41-44 .
  18. ↑ Limitless! Transitional regulation between the southern district of Borken and the VRR for bus & train. (PDF) Zweckverband SPNV Münsterland, January 2012, p. 2 , accessed on May 17, 2015 .
  19. ^ Rolf Swoboda: Railway Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck - Winterswijk . Kenning Verlag, Nordhorn 1993, ISBN 3-927587-11-7 , p. 53-60 .
  20. ^ André Joost: Line info RE14 - Der Borkener. In: NRWbahnarchiv. Retrieved May 16, 2015 .
  21. ^ Rolf Swoboda: Railway Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck - Winterswijk . Kenning Verlag, Nordhorn 1993, ISBN 3-927587-11-7 , p. 14-15 .
  22. ^ Rolf Swoboda: Railway Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck - Winterswijk . Kenning Verlag, Nordhorn 1993, ISBN 3-927587-11-7 , p. 44-45 .