Spellen railway station (Niederrhein)

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Spellen (Lower Rhine)
Former reception building, street side, 2017
Former reception building, street side, 2017
Data
Operating point type Railway station (1912–1985)
Junction (since 1985)
Location in the network Intermediate station (1912–1945)
Terminal station (1945–1985)
Design Through station
Platform tracks formerly 2
abbreviation ESPN
opening October 15, 1912
location
City / municipality Voerde (Lower Rhine)
Place / district Spellen
country North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
Coordinates 51 ° 36 '49 "  N , 6 ° 38' 10"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 36 '49 "  N , 6 ° 38' 10"  E
Railway lines
Railway stations in North Rhine-Westphalia
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The Spellen (Niederrhein) train station is an operating point on the Walsumbahn Oberhausen - Spellen in the Spellen district of the town of Voerde (Niederrhein) in the Wesel district . Since 1945, Spellen has been the northern end point of the Walsumbahn, which was previously in operation as far as Wesel . Since 1960 Spellen has been the starting point for the Dinslaken district railway , an industrial trunk line on the southern bank of the Wesel-Datteln Canal . In 1963, the Deutsche Bundesbahn stopped passenger traffic between Walsum and Spellen. In 1985, the former train station was closed and opened under the same name one kilometer further north as a junction . Spellen has been operationally a train station again since December 2017.

history

The station went into operation on October 15, 1912 along with the line. To construct the line it came on 30 November 1911 in Spellen an industrial accident , when several open wagons with building material inserted into each other. No one was injured in the incident. Next to the station there was a second service point, a railway maintenance office . The station was initially equipped with two AEG mechanical signal boxes . The guard signal box St was located on the south head, the command signal box Sp was set up in an extension in the station building on the north head. The reception building was mirror-inverted to the building in Möllen . The ticket office was on the right-hand side, and a passenger tunnel led to the central platform . In contrast to Möllen, the Spellen train station had a first class waiting room , which presumably served high-ranking military personnel who visited the nearby Friedrichsfeld military training area or those of Plettenberg who stayed at Haus Mehrum . In 1916, the Essen Railway Directorate had a civil servants' residence built for the Spellen railway foreman not far from the reception building. The first class waiting room was closed shortly afterwards and the archway bricked up.

On January 23, 1923, two companies of the Belgian armed forces occupied Spellen station as a result of the occupation of the Ruhr . Since the Lippe acted as a customs border between the occupied Ruhr area and the rest of the Rhine province , customs controls took place in Spellen. The occupation lasted with interruptions until March 10, 1925. On January 15, 1926, the RBD Essen dissolved the Spellen railway maintenance office and transferred its tasks to the Hamborn railway maintenance office. Before 1944, the signal station in St went out of operation, after which it served as a residence for a war disabled railroader. The switches in the control area have been removed and the entry and exit signals have been linked to the Sp interlocking. When the bridge over the Wesel-Datteln Canal was blown up in March 1945, the line north of Spellen was interrupted and the operating point at the terminus for trains from the south was interrupted .

Connection boundary to the circular path, 2018

With the conversion of the Walsum - Spellen section into a branch line and the simultaneous introduction of train control operations on the section on May 14, 1950, the command control center Sp was shut down and Spellen was converted into an unoccupied station. The main signals were removed and the remaining points switched to local operation. The Spellen station department closed the Federal Railway Directorate (BD) Essen on May 31, 1950, and on August 29, 1950 the Basa connection set up in the 1930s was taken out of service. Walsum station took over the tasks of the disbanded department , while the Deutsche Bundesbahn assigned the task of issuing tickets to an agency. On December 13, 1957, the Federal Railroad stopped shipping general cargo in Spellen.

Track lock and light lock signal in the direction of Walsum at the connection limit, 2018

The construction of the Dinslaken district railway on the south bank of the Wesel-Datteln Canal entailed the reconstruction of the main line from kilometer 24.0 to kilometer 25.0. From there the siding branched off to the circular path. The new section went into operation on May 29, 1959, the circular path a year later on May 30, 1960. The St signal box was rebuilt around 1960, but it never went into operation and was later demolished. On May 25, 1963, the Federal Railroad stopped passenger traffic between Spellen and Walsum. In the years that followed, the sidings at the station served, among other things, as siding for tank wagons from the BP Hünxe refinery . In 1974 a Bochum entrepreneur used the head side ramp to load 20 wagons with refractory bricks. Occasionally, fertilizer was still transported to Spellen. BD Essen therefore gave up local freight traffic to Spellen. On March 1, 1985, the station was converted into a junction (Anst). The tracks and switches that are no longer needed have been removed. Since then, the operating point has been located at kilometer 25,000 and marks the infrastructure boundary between the Deutsche Bundesbahn and its successors and the Dinslaken district railway. With the activation of the ESTW for the Duisburg-Hamborn  - Spellen section, the operating center received an entry and exit signal as well as two blocking signals and a track block . It is therefore again operated as a train station.

The former station building and the railway master's house have been preserved and are used privately.

passenger traffic

The summer timetable of May 1914 showed eight pairs of trains a day between Oberhausen Hauptbahnhof and Wesel . As a result of rising inflation , the offer decreased to three pairs of trains in 1920. On October 3, 1937, the line was included in the Ruhr express traffic and the offer was expanded to 34 trains. In the summer of 1939 there were 17 pairs of trains on the route, by 1943 the number had dropped to 13 pairs. In the winter timetable of 1944/45, three trains went beyond Wesel to Bocholt , in the opposite direction seven trains came from Bocholt via the Walsumbahn to Oberhausen. After the Second World War, the passenger trains ended in Spellen because the bridge over the Wesel-Datteln Canal was blown up. From 1951 the trains went beyond Oberhausen Hbf to Duisburg-Ruhrort . The last passenger train ran on May 25, 1963.

Web links

Commons : Spellen station  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinrich Wuwer: 100 years of elevated railway. The railway line Oberhausen - Hamborn - Walsum - Möllen - Spellen - Wesel . Ed .: Heimatverein Voerde. Voerde 2013, p. 61-65 .
  2. ↑ a b c d Heinrich Wuwer: 100 years of the elevated railway. The railway line Oberhausen - Hamborn - Walsum - Möllen - Spellen - Wesel . Ed .: Heimatverein Voerde. Voerde 2013, p. 70-74 .
  3. ↑ a b Heinrich Wuwer: 100 years of elevated railway. The railway line Oberhausen - Hamborn - Walsum - Möllen - Spellen - Wesel . Ed .: Heimatverein Voerde. Voerde 2013, p. 15-21 .
  4. ↑ Hendschels Telegraph. Railway course book Germany, Austria, Switzerland . Table 1312. No. May 3 , 1914 ( digitized version ).
  5. ^ Heinrich Wuwer: 100 years of elevated railway. The railway line Oberhausen - Hamborn - Walsum - Möllen - Spellen - Wesel . Ed .: Heimatverein Voerde. Voerde 2013, p. 27-30 .
  6. ^ Deutsche Reichsbahn (Ed.): German course book. Summer 1939 . Table 211a. May 15, 1939 ( digitized version ).
  7. ^ Deutsche Reichsbahn (Ed.): German course book. Annual timetable for 1943 . Table 235 May 17, 1943 ( digitized 1 2 3 ).
  8. ^ Deutsche Reichsbahn (Ed.): German course book. Annual timetable 1944/45 . Table 235. July 3, 1944 ( digitized 1 2 3 ).
  9. ↑ André Joost: Course book route 235b. In: NRWbahnarchiv. Retrieved September 16, 2017 .