Bochum – Essen / Oberhausen railway line

This article describes the railway line built by the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft between Bochum, Essen and Oberhausen. An overview of the railway lines in the area between Bochum and Gelsenkirchen is given in the article Railway line Bochum – Gelsenkirchen .

Bochum – Essen / Oberhausen Märkische Emschertalbahn
Route number (DB) :	2153 (Bochum – Nordstern) 2172 (Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck – Essen) 2253 (Essen-Katernberg – Oberhausen)
Course book section (DB) :	428 (Bochum – Herne-Rottbruch) 426 (Our Fritz – Gelsenkirchen Zoo bathtub) 423 (Oberhausen-Osterfeld Süd – Oberhausen)
Route length:	29 + 16 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system :	15 kV 16.7 Hz  ~
Top speed:	65 km / h
Legend "CM trunk line" from Dortmund ,   "CM Emschertalbahn" from Dortmund 23.6 Herne Bf (formerly Herne CME) 23.0 Herne BME 22.9 Bü Grenzweg A 43 22.4 Herne-Rottbruch Hp [1] 23.5 00.0 Herne-Rottbruch Hgn (Abzw) "CM trunk line" to Wanne-Eickel ,   "CM-Emschertalbahn" to Wanne-Eickel 22.4 22.4 Herne-Rottbruch [1] 21.1 00.0 Bü Südstrasse 20.4 00.0 Bü Rensingstrasse 20.4 00.0 Bochum-Riemke Hp [2] 19.3 00.0 Bochum-Riemke North 19.1 00.0 Instead of Bochum-Riemke Hannibal → former route from Wanne-Eickel Süd 18.5 02.1 Bochum-Riemke (formerly Bf) Route to Bochum North 17.4 01, 0 Bk Bochum-Riemke St. 17.3 00.0 Bochum-Hamme 0.4 Bü Eickeler Strasse 0.2 Strw Bochum President Osterath – Dortmund Süd route 16.4 00.0 Establishment Bochum Heintzmann (Plang) 16.0 00.0 Bochum West (formerly Bochum cast steel factory) 15.9 00.0 Awanst Bochum Association Main line from Dortmund Bochum Hbf (Route relocated to the new main station in 1979) 15.3 00.0 Bochum South (formerly Bochum BME) Main route to Essen Awanst Herne-Rottbruch Vockenhof Recklinghausen – Wanne-Eickel route Crange (Abzw old)   formerly "Westf. Emschertalbahn ”from Herne 25.3 00.0 Crange (Abzw) Link from Wanne-Eickel 27.8 00.0 Our Fritz tub (formerly Bf) 29.6 15.1 Gelsenkirchen Zoo 29.8 00.0 Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck Route to Dorsten ,   formerly “Westf. Emschertalbahn ”to Bottrop 31.4 00.0 Awanst Gelsenkirchen harbor 31.9 12.8 Gelsenkirchen-Schalke Nord   (formerly Schalke BME) (Route moved to Nordstern in 1970) 33.1 00.0 Nordstern (Abzw)   "CM-Emschertalbahn" from Wanne-Eickel "CM-Emschertalbahn" to Bottrop Süd former connection route from Gelsenkirchen A 42 Link from Gelsenkirchen 10.4 Gelsenkirchen-Hessler (Abzw) 8.3 Initially Essen-Katernberg North 0.0 07.2 Essen-Katernberg Nord   (formerly Caternberg BME) "CM trunk line" Oberhausen – Gelsenkirchen 5.1 Helene (Abzw) route from Essen-Altenessen 3.7 Essen-Stoppenberg Gelsenkirchen – Essen tram former route to Essen North Essen North – Bochum North route Line from Gelsenkirchen Main line from Bochum 0.1 Essen Central Station Main line to Duisburg or Oberhausen former route from Essen-Altenessen RhE former route to Essen-Altenessen CME Connection route from Essen city harbor 3.4 00.0 Essen bird home former route from Essen-Bergeborbeck 5.8 00.0 Essen-Horl (Abzw, formerly Bf) former route to Prosper Levin Rhine-Herne Canal Bottrop Süd – Prosper-Levin route Emscher "CM-Emschertalbahn" from Bottrop Süd Line Bottrop Hbf – Essen-Dellwig Ost 7.4 00.0 Oberhausen-Osterfeld Ost 11.0 00.0 Oberhausen-Osterfeld Bottrop North – Oberhausen West line Former route with a tight curve to the south Today's Oberhausen public transport route (11.6)00.0 Oberhausen-Osterfeld West Route to Oberhausen West Oberhausen-Olga Park (12.8)00.0 Oberhausen Grafenbusch (Abzw) to the main line to Wesel former route to Duisburg-Ruhrort Main line from Wesel Emscher Line from Wesel (15.0)00.0 Oberhausen Hbf Obn Rhine-Herne Canal Oberhausen West – Bottrop North route Oberhausen West – Bottrop South route Oberhausen-New Center Oberhausen-Lipperfeld Oberhausen West – Essen-Altenessen route "CM trunk line" from Essen-Altenessen Line from Oberhausen West (16.5)00.0 Oberhausen Hbf Route to Duisburg-Ruhrort "CM trunk line" to Duisburg Main route to Essen [1] EHEO office , until 1909 “Kreuzungsstation Herne”, until 1959 “Herne Güterbahnhof”, passenger traffic 1949–1990 Passenger traffic 1960/65 relocated to bridge over A 43 [2] EBGZ branch , moved from Bochum-Riemke Nord to "Bochum-Graetz" until 1993, "Bochum-Nokia" until 2009 Swell:

The Bochum – Essen / Oberhausen railway was built by the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (BME) in order to be able to open up the area north of its central Ruhr area main line for mines and industrial plants.

history

For a long time, the main focus of the BME was on its routes in the Bergisches Land and along the Ruhr ( Ruhr Valley Railway ), with which the industrial plants and coal mines there were connected.

With the northward migration of coal mining from the Ruhr to the Emscher , the area between the two rivers also became of interest to the BME. This area had previously only been developed by the Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (RhE) and in particular by the Cologne-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (CME) with its Ruhr area routes further north.

As early as 1847, when building its main line between Duisburg and Dortmund , the CME roughly oriented itself towards the course of the Emscher. A good twenty years later, she built her Emschertalbahn parallel to her main line and largely in the immediate vicinity of the Emscher. The CME thus had a de facto monopoly in this area.

Around the same time in the early 1870s, the RhE built its (Rhenish) Ruhr area stretch , which ran between Mülheim and Langendreer also north of the (Brandenburg) Ruhr area stretch of the BME. At the end of the 1870s, the Königlich-Westfälische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (KWE), another company, set about building a railway line in the Emschertal .

In order not to completely leave the lucrative area on both sides of the Emscher to the three competitors, the BME then began building three sections on its Ruhr area route, starting from the stations in Bochum, Essen and Oberhausen, which ultimately provided a continuous connection from Herne-Rottbruch to Oberhausen- Osterfeld along the Emscher (hence also called "Märkische Emschertalbahn").

Essen - Bochum - Herne

As early as 1867, the BME began to build (colliery) sidings starting from Bochum train station . On November 16, 1867 the cast steelworks was connected, on March 1, 1869 it reached Riemke (today in Bochum ), and on May 28, 1870 Herne , these were initially the northernmost tracks of the BME.

On November 1, 1874, the stretch, which was largely parallel to the Witten / Dortmund – Oberhausen / Duisburg railway line, with continuous kilometers from Essen BME via Wattenscheid BME and Bochum BME to Herne BME was officially opened for freight traffic on the first section , exactly two months later at the turn of the year 1875 also for passenger traffic.

Essen - Schalke

Starting from the Essen BME train station (today Essen Hbf ), a siding led in a wide arc to the north to the Queen Elisabeth colliery in what is now Essen-Frillendorf. With the Essen RhE – Kray RhE (today Essen North – Essen-Kray North ) and the Essen BME – Kray RhE railway from 1905 (today Essen Hbf – Essen-Kray North ), a track triangle was formed, after which the area and a street in Frillendorf are named to this day.

Bridge of the former branch line from Abzw Helene to Essen CME

The siding was expanded to a railway line via Caternberg BME (today Essen-Katernberg Nord ) to Schalke BME (today Gelsenkirchen-Schalke Nord ), including a branch line from the junction Helene to Essen CME (today Essen-Altenessen ) April 1874 released for freight traffic.

As on the section between Essen and Herne, passenger traffic from Essen BME to Schalke BME and Essen CME was started on January 1, 1875 and operated regularly, although initially without an intermediate stop. Passenger trains stopped in Caternberg BME for the first time in 1880, followed by a stop in Hessler in 1889 (at last only a branch point).

The Stoppenberg station was finally inaugurated on August 8, 1901 by the Stoppenberg mayor Carl Meyer. During the French occupation of the Ruhr in 1923, this station was the only free station for all of Essen. The station building was demolished in 1984 after passenger traffic had ceased in 1969, as was the case on the entire section of the route.

Most of the shutdown took place in 1970, only the section between Essen-Stoppenberg and Essen-Altenessen was still used as a station track for the mining test facility until 1978.

Schalke - Herne-Rottbruch

formerly Herne-Rottbruch Hp, on a bridge over the A 43

A good year later, the section from Schalke BME via Bismarck (now Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck ) to the Herne crossing station (now Herne-Rottbruch ) marked the end of the two branches of the route; on January 10, 1876, the first freight trains ran over the entire route.

On the other hand, there was never a continuous passenger traffic, only the western section between Schalke and Bismarck was used by passenger trains from June 21, 1880. After the Winterswijk-Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck railway line, which was licensed to the Dutch-Westphalian Railway Company , had been opened for passenger traffic a week earlier , the BME took over the management and tied the trains through to Essen, which is why they had to “ make heads ” in Bismarck .

Caternberg - Oberhausen

This section of the line also emerged from a colliery siding, the Carl colliery in Essen-Altenessen was connected to the Caternberg BME station . The route from there to the Oberhausen BME station (today Oberhausen Hauptbahnhof , then still the terminus of its Witten / Dortmund – Oberhausen / Duisburg railway line ) was approved by the BME on May 23, 1879.

On September 29, 1879 the first short section from Caternberg BME to (Essen-) Vogelheim was inaugurated, on June 1, 1880 the remaining section followed via Essen-Horl (former freight yard, last branch point, now out of service) and Osterfeld BME ( today completely opened in the Oberhausen-Osterfeld marshalling yard , approximate location at the level of “Märkische Strasse”) to the Oberhausen BME station .

The last section led from Osterfeld BME in a tight curve to the south to the Emscher , then followed today's Oberhausen public transport route and ended at the location of tracks 1 to 3 of the Oberhausen BME station, which no longer existed today .

Todays situation

Since the route, apart from the sections mentioned, was never of greater importance for passenger traffic, it was linked to other rail lines in the region after the nationalization by the Prussian State Railways (PSE) and optimized for freight traffic.

The railway line Osterath – Dortmund Süd of the RhE was shut down in a westerly direction from Bochum President and instead connected to the Bochum – Herne line via route 2152 in Bochum-Riemke station.

Freight traffic follows the historic route to Gelsenkirchen-Schalke Nord , from here it is led via a connecting curve to the Nordstern junction on the "Emschertalbahn" of the CME, which continues today to Oberhausen-Osterfeld . The Märkische line to Oberhausen-Osterfeld Ost is largely closed, two sections only function as sidings.

On a section of the 1969/70 disused route between the Burggrafenstrasse junction and the former Essen-Katernberg Nord train station, the “Helenendamm” road was laid out in Essen-Altenessen; the entire course of the former route is now the subject of planning to close the gap on federal motorway 52 .

service

The Glückauf-Bahn (VT 11 003) in Bochum-Riemke

In 1940 there was a passenger train connection from Wanne-Eickel via Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck, Gelsenkirchen-Schalke Nord and Gelsenkirchen-Heßler to Essen main station.

In the 1968/69 timetable this was recorded from Wanne-Eickel via Gelsenkirchen-Zoo, Gelsenkirchen-Schalke and Bottrop Süd to Oberhausen Hauptbahnhof.

The following sections are now served by local rail transport:

Bochum main station - Herne-Rottbruch

The regional train RB 46 called "Glückauf-Bahn" runs on this section of the Bochum – Gelsenkirchen railway , operated by Abellio Rail NRW . Near Herne-Rottbruch , the line runs over a connecting curve (VzG number 2202) to the Cologne-Mindener Emschertalbahn to Wanne-Eickel Hauptbahnhof . The S2 of the Rhein-Ruhr S-Bahn runs in the direction of Recklinghausen Süd . The former Herne-Rottbruch stop is not served.

Our Fritz - Gelsenkirchen Zoo

The regional train RB 43 "Emschertal-Bahn", currently operated by the NordWestBahn , uses this two-kilometer section to transfer from the Cologne-Mindener Emschertalbahn or from Wanne-Eickel Hbf on the connecting line (VzG number 2204) in Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck to the Railway line to get to Dorsten .

Oberhausen-Osterfeld - Oberhausen main station

The last section of the route is now used intensively as a public transport route . In parallel, the built by the PSE route Osterfeld to Oberhausen central station of the regional train RB 44 "The Dorsten", also operated by the NordWestBahn, operated by the in station Oberhausen Osterfeld ending "Hamm-Osterfelder web" is bound.

literature

• Bernd Franco Hoffmann: The Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn. Through the valleys of Wupper, Ruhr and Volme ; Sutton-Verlag, Erfurt, 2015, ISBN 978-3954005802

Web links

NRWbahnarchiv by André Joost:

BME routes:

• Description of route 2153 : Bochum Hbf ↔ Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck (↔ Nordstern)
• Description of route 2212 : Herne-Rottbruch ↔ Herne Hbf
• Description of route 2172 : Essen Hbf ↔ Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck
• Description of route 2173 : Essen-Stoppenberg ↔ Essen-Altenessen (CME)
• Description of route 2253 : Essen-Katernberg North ↔ Oberhausen Osterfeld Süd

Connecting lines of the PSE / DRG / DB:

• Description of route 2230 : Gelsenkirchen-Hessler ↔ Wanne-Eickel Hbf
• Description of route 2171 : Essen-Stoppenberg ↔ Essen Nord (RhE)
• Description of route 2194 : Bochum Hbf ↔ Bochum West

further evidence:

• Location of the Osterfeld train stations

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DB Netze - Infrastructure Register
2. ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .
3. ↑ Pictures from Alt-Stoppenberg