Walsum train station

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Walsum
Reception building, street side, 2016
Reception building, street side, 2016
Data
Operating point type railway station
Location in the network Intermediate station
Design Through station
Platform tracks formerly 2
abbreviation EWLS
opening October 15, 1912
location
City / municipality Duisburg
Place / district Old Walsum
country North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
Coordinates 51 ° 32 '5 "  N , 6 ° 43' 7"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 32 '5 "  N , 6 ° 43' 7"  E
Railway lines
Railway stations in North Rhine-Westphalia
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The Walsum station is the station on the Walsumbahn Oberhausen - Spellen in the Alt-Walsum district of the Walsum district of Duisburg . It was used by passenger trains on schedule until 1983 and has been a pure freight station ever since . The Duisburg-Walsum power plant is supplied with hard coal via the station, and coal was also exported from the Walsum colliery until 2008 . The station building is a listed building.

history

Signal box whale and platform, 2016

The station went into operation together with the line on October 15, 1912, the opening took place the day before. On October 1, 1913, a goods shed for general cargo transport went into operation north of the reception building . There was a head side ramp between the two buildings for loading work. Belgian troops occupied Walsum in March 1921 , the station was occupied first in November 1922 and again from January 13, 1923 to November 23, 1923. In 1926, the siding of the AG for machine paper production (from 1936: Aschaffenburger Zellstoffwerke) went into operation, the company was in charge of operations. The siding was later connected to the Gutehoffnungshütte (GHH) siding. In 1937 Walsum was used as Bahnhof III. Class classified. Ten Reichsbahn employees and a half-day cleaner were on site. On September 7, 1939, a tail-end signaling system was put into operation; it was located on the east side of the waiting room on the platform. By switching with a square key , the train driver was able to signal to the dispatcher that his train had completely retracted. The installation was necessary because the signal train termination point - the point at which the main signal permitting the journey may be stopped again - was in front of the signal box from the direction of Hamborn and was therefore not visible to the dispatcher. The block back took place before on the way to Möllen. Since a higher train sequence was to be achieved with the introduction of the Ruhr Schnellverkehr in 1937 , the procedure for passenger trains could not be retained.

With the start of hard coal production at the Walsum colliery in 1939, a siding between the Walsum train station and the Driesenbusch depot of the mining company went into operation. In addition, a double-track transfer station was built to the west of the existing track system. 1943 replaced Reichsbahn the command interlocking Wal (type AEG) by a new one (type Bruchsal). When it went into operation, the points and locking signals of the transfer station were connected to the signal box and train journeys from the transfer station in the direction of Hamborn were enabled. During the Second World War the formation of ammunition trains took place in Walsum. Given its importance, the station was repeatedly attacked by air strikes. In an air raid on August 18, 1940, the northern head of the station around the Nt guard station was hit and the route was damaged. On June 17, 1944 and October 14, 1944 there were further air raids in which the station building was badly damaged. The route was interrupted for several days. On May 8, 1945 , foreign workers burned the Wal signal box down to the concrete ceiling. Since the bridge over the Kleine Emscher had been blown up, the train traffic between Hamborn and Walsum was interrupted. In order to still be able to serve the Walsum - Spellen section, trains from Sterkrade were diverted via the GHH works railway and the siding of the pulp works. As of May 1948, the trains were able to take their regular route again. At the same time, the Wal command signal box went into operation in a modified form after being rebuilt. In November 1949, the new building for the goods handling facility damaged in the war went into operation.

On May 14, 1950, the Federal Railway Directorate (BD) Essen converted the line north of Walsum into a branch line and at the same time introduced train control operations on the section. Walsum became the train control center and the responsible office for the alternative connection point Möllen and the Spellen station . Probably the signal box Nt went out of service at this time. The signals were removed at the north head and the points switched to local operation. From May 25, 1963, Walsum was the northern terminus for passenger trains from Oberhausen . In 1967, the BD Essen lifted the authorization for general cargo in Walsum, the tasks were taken over by Dinslaken . The goods handling facility was closed and their offices relocated to the reception building. On June 30, 1977, the Walsum station was given up as an independent department and the authority was transferred to Oberhausen West station. Around 1980 an entry signal and exit signals in the direction of Möllen were set up again at the northern head of the station . While the main and blocking signals were connected directly to the Wal interlocking, the points in this area were integrated into the route logic of the interlocking via a key system. The associated building was designated as post n. The background was the expansion of coal train traffic between the Walsum colliery and the Voerde power station near Möllen. On May 29, 1983, passenger traffic on the Walsumbahn ended. The station building was listed as a historical monument five years later. In December 1998, DB Cargo withdrew the last shunter on site; the tasks were taken over by the shunting staff from Oberhausen West. Since the Walsum colliery stopped its production at the end of 2008, item n had become dispensable and was given up on December 3, 2008. The points leading into the main track were locked.

Location and structure

Rail connection to the Walsum power plant (right), 2016

Track system

The station is located in the Duisburg-Walsum district between the Alt-Walsum and Vierlinden districts . The route runs in the station area almost in a south-north direction. The entry signal  19A from the direction of Duisburg-Hamborn is at km  12.827, the entry signal 19F from the direction of Möllen (Lower Rhine) at km 14.900. The station has seven tracks. Track 1 and 2 are the former platform tracks on the Südkopf. Track 3 serves as a passing track. Tracks 4–7 (formerly 12–15) belong to the transfer group to the Walsum power plant and formerly to the Walsum colliery . The sidings to the Walsum and Norske Skog power plants lead out of the station as a southern extension of tracks 4 and 3, respectively. Points and signals are controlled by the ESTW-D Walsum, the responsible dispatcher is located in the ESTW headquarters in Oberhausen West station . The electronic interlocking that went into operation in December 2017 replaced the mechanical interlocking Wal. Until the ESTW was activated, there was a remote control device for the Moe signal box in Möllen station (Lower Rhine) in Walsum.

Reception building and platform

Reception building and platform with access structure, 2016

The former station building is on a side street off Römerstrasse. It was built based on the Lower Rhine T-House. The two-storey transverse building stands at the gable facing the street with a half-timbered facade . Via a single-storey extension, travelers reached the anteroom with ticket issuance and waiting hall. The base is made of quarry stone blocks. The plastered building is covered by a hipped roof. Access to the central platform was via a pedestrian tunnel. The bricked and partially glazed staircase has a two-tiered gable roof . The station building is since 6 April 1988, listed building .

The building gained national fame after it was sold to a couple and the subsequent renovation work. From 2011 to 2014 the work in the docu-soap Ab in die Ruine! seen on VOX . The work, which was ongoing in 2017, was repeatedly marked by conflicts between the owners and Deutsche Bahn , among other things due to prolonged water damage to the building. In addition, there were disputes over ownership of the passenger tunnel, staircase and platform.

traffic

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 Walsumbahn 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, passenger trains to Wesel ended in Spellen. Until the rebuilding of the Emscher bridge between Walsum and Hamborn in 1948, the trains ran the Gutehoffnungshütte factory railway via Aldenrade to Sterkrade via the siding of the paper mill . From 1951 there was a continuous connection from Spellen via Walsum and Oberhausen Hauptbahnhof to Duisburg-Ruhrort . Since May 26, 1963, Walsum was the northern terminus for passenger trains. Until 1966, the Federal Railroad used special football trains between Walsum and the Duisburg Sportpark stop at home games of the Meidericher Spielverein . The entrance tickets for the Wedaustadion could be purchased together with the tickets. After expanding coal train traffic to Möllen, the Federal Railroad reduced the number of passenger trains in 1976 to two pairs of trains a day. As the number of passengers sank to less than 20 people, BD Essen applied for the suspension of passenger traffic in October 1982. On May 28, 1983, the Federal Railroad stopped the remaining passenger traffic between Oberhausen Hbf and Walsum.

Freight transport

A freight train passed through from Möllen (Niederrhein) to Oberhausen West, until 2008 the trains commuted between Möllen and Walsum, 2016

In the 1970s, the loading tracks were used to handle scrap. A furniture manufacturer rented a room in the former goods shed. The main connections to the station included the Aschaffenburger Zellstoffwerke, Gutehoffnungshütte (GHH) and the Walsum colliery and power station .

The mine and power plant connection went into operation in 1939 and has been used exclusively for the power plant since 2008. Some of the coal supplied comes from abroad and from Prosper-Levin Zecher in Bottrop . The transport services are taken over by the Niederrheinische Verkehrsbetriebe and RBH Logistics .

The connection of the pulp works existed from 1926 and was initially operated independently with steam locomotives . The cellulose works in Walsum closed at the end of 1963 and then passed to Haindl Papier . At the same time, the Deutsche Bundesbahn took over the management of the siding. Until 1970 at the latest, there was a connection from here to the GHH rail network. In 2001 the Norwegian group Norske Skog took over the Haindl paper mill. In 2015, the plant filed for bankruptcy. The construction of the logport VI is planned on the site , for which the connection could be used.

Web links

Commons : Walsum station  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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. 54-60 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e Heinrich Wuwer: 100 years of the elevated railway. The railway line Oberhausen - Hamborn - Walsum - Möllen - Spellen - Wesel . Ed .: Heimatverein Voerde. Voerde 2013, p. 45-54 .
  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. 27-30 .
  4. ↑ 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 .
  5. ↑ Duisburg-Walsum station reception building . Entry in the monuments list of the city of Duisburg. 1988 ( digitized version [PDF; accessed September 15, 2017]).
  6. ↑ Gregor Herberhold: Vox shows the renovation of the train station in Duisburg-Walsum in “Off to the ruins”. In: waz.de. Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung , February 4, 2011, accessed on September 18, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Gregor Herberhold: Documentary soap stars continue to renovate the old train station. In: waz.de. Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung , September 10, 2016, accessed on September 18, 2017 .
  8. ^ Gregor Herberhold: Old train station in Duisburg-Walsum - renovation turns into a nightmare. In: waz.de. Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung , July 9, 2014, accessed on September 18, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Gregor Herberhold: "Off to the ruin" - celebrity chased workers away with extinguishing powder. In: waz.de. Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung , May 18, 2015, accessed on September 18, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Hendschels Telegraph. Railway course book Germany, Austria, Switzerland . Table 1312. No. May 3 , 1914 ( digitized version ).
  11. ^ Deutsche Reichsbahn (Ed.): German course book. Summer 1939 . Table 211a. May 15, 1939 ( digitized version ).
  12. ^ Deutsche Reichsbahn (Ed.): German course book. Annual timetable for 1943 . Table 235 May 17, 1943 ( digitized 1 2 3 ).
  13. ^ Deutsche Reichsbahn (Ed.): German course book. Annual timetable 1944/45 . Table 235. July 3, 1944 ( digitized 1 2 3 ).
  14. ↑ André Joost: Course book route 235b. In: NRWbahnarchiv. Retrieved September 16, 2017 .
  15. ^ André Joost: Route archive 2271 - Oberhausen - Spellen - Wesel. In: NRWbahnarchiv. Retrieved September 16, 2017 .
  16. ^ Heinrich Wuwer: 100 years of elevated railway. The railway line Oberhausen - Hamborn - Walsum - Möllen - Spellen - Wesel . Ed .: Heimatverein Voerde. Voerde 2013, p. 22-23 .
  17. ↑ Oliver Schmeer: Off for paper mill in Walsum - 300 jobs affected. In: derwesten.de. June 5, 2015, accessed September 18, 2017 .
  18. ^ Willi Mohrs: Logport VI is being built in Duisburg-Walsum. In: derwesten.de. September 14, 2016, accessed September 18, 2017 .