Winterswijk train station

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Winterswijk
Entrance building on the street side, 2007
Entrance building on the street side, 2007
Data
Location in the network Separation station
Design Through station
Platform tracks 1
abbreviation Ww, XNWW (Ril 100)
opening June 24, 1878
Website URL NS info page
location
City / municipality Winterswijk
province Gelderland
Country Netherlands
Coordinates 51 ° 58 '5 "  N , 6 ° 42' 53"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 58 '5 "  N , 6 ° 42' 53"  E
Height ( SO ) 38.7  m NAP
Railway lines
List of train stations in the Netherlands
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The Winterswijk Station is a train station in the monies rule town of Winterswijk . Lines from five directions met at the former regional rail junction, two of which crossed the German border to Bocholt and Borken . After the closure of three lines, there are still connections to Zutphen and via Zevenaar to Arnhem .

history

The station was opened on June 24, 1878 with the commissioning of the route Zutphen - Winterswijk of the Nederlandsch-Westfaalsche Spoorweg-Maatschappij (NWSM). This took place on June 14, 1880 for the connecting lines to Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck and Bocholt , and scheduled traffic began on June 21, 1880. In the first two years of operation, a timber frame building served as a temporary reception building ; the final construction was completed at the end of 1880. A short time later, the temporary structure was sold to the Geldersch-Overijsselsche Lokaalspoorweg-Maatschappij (GOLS), where it served as a reception building from 1885 to 1909. Winterswijk GOLS station was located to the west of Winterswijk state station (also called Winterswijk HIJSM to distinguish it ) and was connected to it by a siding.

Reception hall, 2014

At the time, the NWSM was only ready to take over the construction of the Zutphen - Winterswijk - Bismarck / Bocholt lines. It therefore concluded operating leasing agreements with Hollandsche IJzeren Spoorweg-Maatschappij (HIJSM) for the Dutch section from Zutphen to Winterswijk and with the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (BME) for the subsequent sections across the Dutch-German border . The Winterswijk train station was therefore equipped with service rooms for both companies. Of the nine permanent Ringlokschuppen the HIJSM used six tracks, the other three were from BME or from 1884, the Prussian state railway used. The Prussian steam locomotives were never stationed in Winterswijk and were only parked there to turn around or to spend the night.

Former reception building of Winterswijk GOLS station, 2008

The passenger trains ran on two platform tracks. Track 2 was on the south head and was a stump track for trains to and from Bocholt . The long house platform was on track 1 . Two trains could be dispatched at the same time via switch connections with the neighboring track, although this track layout was considered obsolete in its layout. After installing track 1a with another bypass option, three trains were possible on the same track. In 1903 there was a major renovation. The HIJSM built a twelve-hour engine shed so that the Prussian State Railways could fully occupy the old nine-hour shed. The turntable in front of the shed remained, larger locomotives therefore had to be turned around in front of the HIJSM shed. Along with the expansion, the Prussian State Railroad acquired the coal bans and built an overnight building. A twelve-track shunting group with train-forming tracks to the shunting yards in Amsterdam, Rietlanden, Rotterdam, Oberhausen and Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck was created for freight traffic. In 1916, the northern extension of the reception building was extended in order to obtain additional service areas for the railway and customs.

With the outbreak of the First World War , cross-border traffic was discontinued. The first passenger trains between Winterswijk and Borken started running again from 1919. However, traffic no longer reached the pre-war level when a few through trains ran from Essen via Winterswijk to Amsterdam . Winterswijk was now the end point for all trains coming from Germany. Express trains were now mainly given the route via Emmerich or Bentheim . On the Bocholt route, however, passenger traffic was not resumed. In the 1920s there was a small amount of freight traffic on the section, and in 1931 the cross-border section between the neighboring Winterswijk and Barlo sites was discontinued. At this time, the HIJSM took over the management of the GOLS routes and dissolved the company by 1928. In 1936, the Winterswijk GOLS station was closed and the Winterswijk - Neede and Winterswijk - Zevenaar lines were relocated to the state station, and the Bocholt track had to be partially demolished. Just one year later, the Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS), as the successor to the HIJSM, stopped passenger transport to Neede. The station reached its greatest extent during this period.

Winterswijk station, 1950

After the Wehrmacht invaded the Netherlands on May 10, 1940, the Netherlands had to pay reparations to the German Reich . This also included railroad tracks . In this context, the dead end track 2 and track 1a were removed; two years later the disused line to Barlo was also dismantled. In the course of the war, the station was partly badly damaged. Reconstruction began in March 1945. While the Nederlandse Spoorwegen had the station building repaired, most of the other high-rise buildings, with the exception of a water tower and the turntable in front of the larger engine shed, were demolished. From December 1, 1945, the first passenger trains ran to Doetinchem , from July 1, 1946 to Zevenaar, and from December 21, 1946 to Arnhem . Passenger traffic in the direction of Zutphen was resumed on October 5, 1947. This was initially also intended for cross-border passenger traffic to Borken, but was discarded around 1953. In connection with the reconstruction, the number of tracks was reduced from 15 to eleven. Because of the destruction of the guard signal box I, all points in the south head were switched to manual operation and the remaining tasks were transferred to the guard signal box III and the command signal box in the station building. In 1958 the signaling systems were reassigned.

Declines in passengers and the falling number of freight trains led the NS to consider discontinuing the route to Zutphen. This was prevented by popular resistance. The cross-border freight traffic to Borken was discontinued on September 24, 1979, the track of the Borkener as well as the Bocholter Bahn recaptured nature , so that the sections up to the state border have been designated as nature reserves since the 1990s . After the removal of most of the track systems, the main platform and two sidings remained. A school has been built on the site of the former freight station since 2012.

traffic

Lint railcar from Syntus, 2006
Arriva platform and Flirt railcar, 2014

From 1880, two pairs of trains stopped in Winterswijk every day with a route from Amsterdam via Apeldoorn , Winterswijk, Borken , Dorsten and Bismarck to Essen . A third pair of trains commuted between Winterswijk and Essen. A fourth pair of trains was added from the winter schedule of 1883/84. The winter timetable shows three pairs of trains between Zutphen and Winterswijk and five pairs of trains between Winterswijk and Essen. Occasional trains ran through to Wesel on the Bocholt route . Initially, five pairs of trains were in use on the GOLS routes between Winterswijk and Zevenaar as well as three and later four pairs of trains to Neede . A pair of trains ran continuously from Neede via Winterswijk to Zevenaar. After HIJSM took over operations, six pairs of trains ran daily between Winterswijk and Neede on the route to Neede, four of which were extended to Hellendoorn . The timetable offered here remained roughly the same until the line was closed.

Between 1914 and 1919, passenger train traffic across the state border was interrupted due to the war, and passenger train traffic to Bocholt was not resumed. In the mid-1920s, four pairs of trains drove from Winterswijk across the border towards Borken. With the outbreak of war in 1939, passenger train traffic on this connection came to a standstill. On the Dutch part of the route, six pairs of trains were in use daily between Winterswijk and Apeldoorn in the 1930s, and through coach connections were offered to Amsterdam . After the Second World War, the NS intended to shut down the line, at that time there was a two-hour cycle between Apeldoorn and Winterswijk. Since 1947 there has been an hourly connection to Zevenaar and Arnhem on weekdays. The direct connection to Amsterdam via Zutphen has been discontinued. From 1954 there was an hourly connection to Apeldoorn on weekdays.

In 1999, the Syntus company took over the operation of the routes to Zutphen and Zevenaar, and during rush hour the service was reduced to every half hour. Arriva took over the connections in December .

series Train type course operator
30400 Sneltrein Apeldoorn  - Zutphen  - Winterswijk Arriva
30800 Stop clean Winterswijk  - Ruurlo  - Zutphen Arriva
30900 Stop clean Winterswijk  - Doetinchem  - Zevenaar -  Arnhem Centraal Arriva

Freight transport

The Borkener Bahn was initially of great importance for freight traffic, as it offered the possibility of supplying the Achterhoek with coal from the Ruhr area. At the same time, agricultural products could be shipped to the conurbations. The Bocholter Bahn played an important role in freight traffic between Wesel and the Twente region . The GOLS routes also played an important role in local freight transport. Cross-border freight trains could therefore be found on the two routes long after passenger traffic was discontinued. From the end of the 1950s, ore trains were also partly used on the Borkener Bahn. After the electrification of the Oberhausen - Emmerich (- Arnhem) line in 1966, block train traffic increasingly shifted back to this route. The increasing switch to natural gas and the death of collieries led to a definitive decline in freight traffic in Winterswijk in the 1970s.

Web links

Commons : Winterswijk train station  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Arnold Arentsen, Henk Krosenbrink, Arjan Ligtenberg, Wim Scholtz, Willem Wilterdink (ed.): Winterswijk. Wat was en wat bleeft . De Boekelier - Meneer Kees, Winterswijk 1991, ISBN 90-9004369-1 , p. 184.
  2. ↑ a b c Rolf Swoboda: Railway Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck - Winterswijk . Kenning, Nordhorn 1993, ISBN 3-927587-11-7 , pp. 16-18 .
  3. ^ Rolf Swoboda: Railway Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck - Winterswijk . Kenning, Nordhorn 1993, ISBN 3-927587-11-7 , pp. 4-7 .
  4. ^ A b Rolf Swoboda: Railway Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck - Winterswijk . Kenning, Nordhorn 1993, ISBN 3-927587-11-7 , pp. 41-44 .
  5. ^ André Joost: Route information 2264 Bocholt Grenz– Bocholt. In: NRWbahnarchiv. Retrieved June 14, 2017 .
  6. ↑ a b c Martijn van Vulpen: Spoorlijn Winterswijk - Zevenaar. In: martijnvanvulpen.nl. Retrieved June 14, 2017 (Dutch).
  7. ^ Rolf Swoboda: Railway Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck - Winterswijk . Kenning, Nordhorn 1993, ISBN 3-927587-11-7 , pp. 48 .
  8. ^ Rolf Swoboda: Railway Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck - Winterswijk . Kenning, Nordhorn 1993, ISBN 3-927587-11-7 , pp. 53-60 .
  9. ^ Rolf Swoboda: Railway Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck - Winterswijk . Kenning, Nordhorn 1993, ISBN 3-927587-11-7 , pp. 45-47 .
  10. ↑ a b c d e Martijn van Vulpen: NWS - Spoorlijn Zutphen - Winterswijk - Gelsenkirchen. In: martijnvanvulpen.nl. Retrieved June 24, 2017 (Dutch).
  11. ^ A b Rolf Swoboda: Railway Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck - Winterswijk . Kenning, Nordhorn 1993, ISBN 3-927587-11-7 , pp. 60-70 .
  12. ^ Martijn van Vulpen: De Borkense- en Bocholtse Baan. In: martijnvanvulpen.nl. Retrieved June 24, 2017 (Dutch).
  13. ↑ Nieuwbouw school Gerrit Komrij College te Winterswijk. In: wamwanduren.nl. Wam & Van Duren Bouwgroep, accessed June 24, 2017 (Dutch).
  14. ^ Rolf Swoboda: Railway Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck - Winterswijk . Kenning, Nordhorn 1993, ISBN 3-927587-11-7 , pp. 11-14 .
  15. ^ Martijn van Vulpen: Spoorlijn Winterswijk - Neede. In: martijnvanvulpen.nl. Retrieved June 24, 2017 (Dutch).