Düsseldorf-Derendorf – Dortmund Süd railway line

Düsseldorf-Derendorf-Dortmund South
Route number (DB) :	2423 (Düsseldorf – Dortmund) 2722 (W-Vohwinkel – W-Varresbeck) 2710 (W-Oberbarmen – W-Wichlinghausen) 2712 (Schwelm – W-Langerfeld (old))
Course book section (DB) :	434 (regional train) 450.5, 450.8, 450.28 (S-Bahn)
Route length:	78 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Top speed:	90 km / h
Dual track :	Hagen-Eckesey-Gevelsberg West Mettmann Stadtwald-Düsseldorf Gerresheim
Legend former route from Enschede (3.8) Dortmund East (formerly Dortmund DGE) Line from Dortmund-Dorstfeld 77.6 (0.0) Dortmund South (formerly Dortmund RhE) Route to Unna-Königsborn (formerly connecting line from 1880) 76.0 (0.0) Dortmund-Kluse Stretch from Soest 74.1 (0.0) Hörde-Hacheney (formerly Hörde RhE) ( Connecting curve from 1957) 73.8 (0.0) Dortmund Signal Iduna Park * Route to Dortmund 72.0 (0.0) Dortmund zoo 71.0 (0.0) Association road 70.3 (0.0) Dortmund-Kirchhörde 68.5 (0.0) former line from Bochum-Langendreer 68.5 (0.0) Dortmund-Löttringhausen 65.8 (0.0) Ender Tunnel (944 m) 64.2 (0.0) Wittbräucke 62.0 (3.4) Herdecke 61.0 (0.0) Ruhr Viaduct (Herdecke) (313 m) (Originally the route passed Hagen Hbf) Main line from Dortmund Ruhrtalbahn ↔ route to Schwerte (0.1) (3.5) Hagen vestibule Yo (Abzw) Bechelte (Abzw) → Ruhr-Sieg route Volme Hagen Gbf Hagen-Eckesey (planned) 56.9 (0.0) Hagen-Eckesey (formerly Hagen RhE) (Link) Volme (0.9) (-0.1) Hagen Hbf formerly Volmetalbahn to Dieringhausen Volmetalbahn to Dieringhausen Main line to Wuppertal (1.1) Hagen-Wehringhausen (1.3) Hagen-Kückelhausen junction 55.1 (0.0) Weidestrasse junction 55.0 (0.0) Hagen-Kückelhausen (most recently Awanst) former route of the Ennepetalbahn 52.7 (3.1) Hagen-Heubing (formerly Haspe RhE) 51.2 (0.0) formerly Schlebusch-Harkorter coal railway 50.4 (0.0) Hagen-Westerbauer 49.4 (0.0) Hagen-Obervogelsang 48.8 (0.0) Gevelsberg-Knapp 45.8 (0.0) Gevelsberg Hbf 44.8 (0.0) Gevelsberg-Kipp 44.2 (0.0) former route from Witten 43.8 (0.0) Gevelsberg West Route to Schwelm 41.9 (0.0) Schwelm Tunnel (742 m) 40.3 (5.7) Schwelm-Loh (formerly Schwelm RhE) (formerly the connecting line from 1913) Main line from Hagen 37.6 (0.0) Vörfken (2.2) Wuppertal-Langerfeld Gbf (old) former route from Hattingen (formerly connecting line from 1890) Wichlinghauser Tunnel (290 m) 34.3 (0.0) Wuppertal-Wichlinghausen   (formerly Ober-Barmen RhE) (3.3) Wuppertal-Oberbarmen Main line to Wuppertal Fatloh tunnel (85 m) 32.4 (0.0) Wuppertal-Heubruch   (formerly Mittel-Barmen RhE) 31.7 (0.0) Wuppertal-Rott Rott tunnel (351 m) former branch line from Wuppertal-Hatzfeld 30.6 (0.0) Wuppertal-Loh   (formerly Unter-Barmen RhE) " Lego Bridge " 29.4 (0.0) Wuppertal-Ostersbaum Engelnberg Tunnel (171 m) 28.4 (0.0) Wuppertal-Mirke Dorrenberg Tunnel (175 m) 26.8 (0.0) Wuppertal-Ottenbruch Dorp tunnel (488 m) 25.8 (0.0) Wuppertal-Dorp stop 24.8 (3.5) Wuppertal-Varresbeck   (formerly Sonnborn RhE) 23.3 (2.0) Wuppertal-Lüntenbeck (formerly connecting line from 1896) Main line from Wuppertal Tesch tunnel (526 m) (0.4) Wuppertal-Vohwinkel ( wedge station ) S-Bahn line to Essen-Steele Main line to Düsseldorf 19.8 (0.0) Dornap-Hahnenfurth Hahnenfurt-Düssel (planned) (planned extension of the Regiobahn) Düssel 17.0 (0.0) Mettmann East 15.5 (0.0) Mettmann Stadtwald S 28 14.9 (0.0) Mettmann Center 11.7 (0.0) Neanderthal (formerly Bf) 8.5 (0.0) Erkrath North Realignment to Gerresheim BME (1891) 4.0 (0.0) Gerresheim RhE (until 1891) Realignment of Gerresheim BME (1891) Connection route to Abzw Hardt Route Hardt – Düsseldorf-Eller junction former connection route from Düsseldorf-Eller Link from Hardt junction 2.0 (0.0) Flingern (East) (Abzw) 1.8 (0.0) Fortuna (Abzw) (former route of the Ruhr Valley Railway ) Link from D-Grafenberg 1.2 (0.0) Dora (Abzw) Düsseldorf-Flingern Main line to Düsseldorf Hbf Rethel (Abzw) Main line Duisburg – Düsseldorf S-Bahn Düsseldorf-Derendorf-Düsseldorf Local tracks Düsseldorf Airport – Düsseldorf Heinrich (Abzw) 0.0 (0.0) Düsseldorf RhE Swell:

The Düsseldorf-Derendorf – Dortmund Süd railway line is a railway line that has been closed in many sections, but is still used in parts to this day, from the Düsseldorf-Derendorf station (former Düsseldorf RhE station ) to the Dortmund Süd station (former Dortmund RhE station ).

Depending on the region, it is also called the Wuppertaler Nordbahn , Düsseltalbahn or simply Rhenish route .

history

The line was built by the Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (RhE) from 1873 as a rival line to the Elberfeld – Dortmund trunk line of the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (BME). Since this took up the few existing traffic areas in the Wupper valley, the new route was led via Mettmann , the north of Wuppertal , Schwelm , Gevelsberg , the west of Hagen and Herdecke .

Dortmund

Remains of the Dortmund Südbahnhof

The RhE had already opened the last section of its Ruhr area route on November 19, 1874 . The routing prevented the Dortmund RhE station from being built near the Dortmund BME station and the previously opened Dortmund CME station of the Cologne-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (now Dortmund Hauptbahnhof ). Therefore, they built their station at the same time as the Dortmund KWE station of the Königlich-Westfälische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, southeast of the Dortmund city center, on what was then an open area between Märkische Strasse and Vosskuhle, which later became the Dortmund Südbahnhof .

From its Dortmund train station, the RhE built a new line to the south in order to serve the mines there. On November 12, 1875, the first freight trains ran to Hörde RhE (most recently Hörde-Hacheney ), from December 28, 1878 on to Löttringhausen, the Dortmund-Löttringhausen train station there became a small railway junction two years later after the Rhenish Donkey was completed .

Dusseldorf

Also on November 19, 1874, the RhE had created a connection between its Ruhr area line and the right Rhine line with the Troisdorf – Mülheim-Speldorf line . As with many other routes, the RhE had chosen a very straight route here and initially bypassed the city of Düsseldorf extensively.

Wuppertal

Herdecke Ruhr Viaduct

The route crosses the urban area in Wuppertal-Barmen on the Steinweg viaduct

Accumulator railcar near Wuppertal-Lüntenbeck , direction Vohwinkel, 1989

The route between Vohwinkel and Hagen, especially in the densely populated Wuppertal, was very complex, as the simpler route along the valley axes of the Wupper and Ennepetals was already occupied by the main route of the BME. For this reason, the hillside railway had to be equipped with elaborate engineering structures such as viaducts and tunnels , which still shape the cityscape in the northern districts of Wuppertal today. The most famous building is the imposing Ruhr Viaduct in Herdecke .

Several other railway lines branched off from this line, for example the Loh – Hatzfeld railway line in Wuppertal- Barmen , the Wuppertal-Wichlinghausen – Hattingen railway line , the Elbschetal railway to Witten in Gevelsberg and the former line to Langendreer via Witten Ost in Dortmund-Löttringhausen . At Neu-Dornap / Vohwinkel the Wuppertal-Vohwinkel – Essen-Überruhr line (the so-called Prinz-Wilhelm-Eisenbahn) was crossed, in Hagen- Haspe the Ennepetalbahn before the transfer to the BME main line and finally the main line of the BME in Hagen- Vorhalle .

In economic terms, however, it was possible in the following years with the more centrally located main line of the BME despite more favorable gradient conditions - the steep ramp Erkrath-Hochdahl on the competing BME line could not initially be overcome by the locomotives on their own, the trains had to be pulled up by cable systems - not keep up. After the nationalization in 1880, the Wuppertal Northern Railway therefore only served a modest regional passenger traffic and as a relief and diversion route for the main line.

For this purpose, various connecting routes or connecting curves (without their own route number) were built between the Wuppertal Northern Railway and the neighboring routes:

• On June 1, 1890, the Royal Railway Directorate Elberfeld opened the connecting line between Oberbarmen and Wichlinghausen (line 2710, today both to Wuppertal) with a connection to their Wuppertal-Wichlinghausen-Hattingen line, which was opened six years earlier .
• On November 1, 1894, a direct connection from Haspe RhE (today Hagen-Heubing ) to Hagen Hauptbahnhof was created with route 2804 , here there was only a connection to the main line of the BME (route 2801, see Elberfeld – Dortmund line ).
• On April 1, 1896, another connection to the main line was opened for freight traffic, followed a month later by passenger traffic between Varresbeck or Lüntenbeck and Vohwinkel (route 2722, now all to Wuppertal).
• On January 2, 1912, passenger traffic between Herdecke and Hagen-Eckesey (formerly Hagen RhE ) was shut down and relocated to the new connection line 2821 between Herdecke and Abzw Hagen-Vorhalle Yo (on the main line of the BME) to Hagen Hbf.
• From 1913, the branch line 2712 connected Schwelm-Loh (formerly Schwelm RhE ) with the old freight station Wuppertal-Langerfeld.
• On June 2, 1957, the section to Dortmund Süd was shut down together with it and instead linked to the Dortmund – Soest railway line via a connecting curve in order to obtain direct access to Dortmund Hbf.

On September 27, 1991, the passenger traffic in the north of Wuppertal was shut down, last carried out with accumulator railcars of the 515 series , after which a few special trips took place. Freight traffic between Wuppertal-Heubruch and Wuppertal-Wichlinghausen also ended in 1991, on the section between Wuppertal-Vohwinkel and Wuppertal-Heubruch with a last train on December 17, 1999.

Todays use

Nordbahntrasse near Wuppertal-Lüntenbeck

Overgrown stopping point at Dorp before the conversion to a cycle path

1998 took over Regiobahn GmbH section Dusseldorf-Gerresheim  - Dornap-Hahnenfurth of the Deutsche Bahn . The route is used today from Düsseldorf to Mettmann-Stadtwald by the Regiobahn as S 28 of the S-Bahn Rhein-Ruhr for passenger traffic or to Dornap-Hahnenfurth for freight trains to the local lime works of the Rheinkalk .

The tracks have been dismantled from Hahnenfurth to Wuppertal-Wichlinghausen. The line between Wuppertal-Vohwinkel and Lüntenbeck or Wuppertal-Wichlinghausen (connecting line from 1896, line number 2722) has been closed since December 1999.

In the further course from Wuppertal-Wichlinghausen the line is closed and dismantled to Schwelm. In the course of the six-lane expansion of the Federal Motorway 1 , the crossing railway bridge at the city limits of Wuppertal / Schwelm was demolished, thus interrupting the route.

From Gevelsberg to Hagen, the route is used by the S 8 and S 9 of the Rhein-Ruhr S-Bahn . The section from Hagen Hbf via Herdecke to Dortmund Signal-Iduna-Park is used by RB 52 trains, which come from Lüdenscheid via the Volmetalbahn .

On the initiative of the Wuppertal movement e. V., the maintenance of the structures and the conversion of the northern railway into a hiking and cycling path , which is known as the northern railway line , took place. The renovation work between the Rott and Ostersbaum stations began in April 2009. In the area of Loh station that had 9 May 2010 curbs set and has leveled the first two kilometers. The opening of this section took place on June 5, 2010 by the Minister for Economic Affairs Thoben , the Minister for Urban Development Lienenkämper and the Mayor of Wuppertal Jung .

On December 19, 2014, in the presence of North Rhine-Westphalian Transport Minister Michael Groschek, the entire route from Wuppertal-Vohwinkel to Wuppertal-Nachbarebreck was officially approved, which has since been open to traffic with minor restrictions due to ongoing construction work.

At the same time, a small interest group tried to maintain the track between Wuppertal-Vohwinkel and Wuppertal-Heubruch for a trolley line , but instead an industrial track from Loh station was designated as a track for trolley cars.

The project was awarded the German Bicycle Prize in 2015 in the “Infrastructure” category.

future

An extension of the S-Bahn from Mettmann to Wuppertal is planned. To this end, it was decided in summer 2005 to re-route the route: The old route will be abandoned at Hahnenfurth, the new route runs north (instead of previously south) of the limestone quarry Grube Hahnenfurth , largely parallel to federal highway 7 , and threads into the at Wuppertal-Dornap Route the railway line Wuppertal-Vohwinkel-Essen-Überruhr (S 9). The new route was chosen to facilitate the expansion of the limestone quarry and a possible bus connection to Wülfrath. A new Hahnenfurth-Düssel stop will connect the Wülfrath district of the same name shortly before the threading .

In August 2009, the planning approval decision was issued by the Düsseldorf district government; the financing was secured at the end of 2013. Construction began in January 2014. Completion was initially planned for the timetable change in December 2016, later the date was postponed several times first to December 2017, then to December 2019 and finally to the end of 2020.

The route between Düsseldorf and Mettmann is to be electrified. In summer 2019 there was still no building permit and the work had to be re-tendered due to a lack of suitable offers. The call for tenders ended on November 26, 2019 without being awarded because no bids had been received or all of them were rejected.

Picture gallery

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  Today used as a cycle path, barmen, view to the east

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  Bridge on Eskesberg

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  Southern portal of the Ender Tunnel

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  Former Wuppertal-Ostersbaum stop

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  Accumulator railcar at the Wuppertal-Lüntenbeck stop

literature

• Bernd Franco Hoffmann: Disused railway lines in the Bergisches Land. Sutton-Verlag, Erfurt April 2013, ISBN 978-3-95400-147-7 .

Web links

Commons : Düsseldorf-Derendorf – Dortmund Süd railway line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

NRWbahnarchiv by André Joost:

• Description of route 2423 (Düsseldorf RhE ↔ Dortmund RhE, from 1875 ~ 1879)
• Description of the connecting line 2402 (Düsseldorf RhE ↔ Abzw Dora, from 1877)
• Description of the connection route 2722 (Wuppertal-Vohwinkel ↔ Wuppertal-Varresbeck, from 1896)
• Description of the connection route 2710 (Wuppertal-Oberbarmen ↔ Wuppertal-Wichlinghausen, from 1890)
• Description of branch line 2712 (Schwelm-Loh ↔ Wuppertal-Langerfeld (old), from 1913)
• Description of the connecting line 2804 (Hagen-Heubing ↔ Hagen Hbf, from 1894) (today S 8)
• Description of route 2801 (Hagen Hbf ↔ Hagen-Vorhalle) , see Elberfeld – Dortmund railway line (today S 5)
• Description of the connecting line 2821 (Hagen-Vorhalle ↔ Herdecke, from 1912) (today RB 52)
• Description of the connecting route 2110 (Dortmund South ↔ Dortmund East, from 1880)

Further evidence:

• Portrait of the range
• Complete documentation in 1300 images
• Pictures of the northern runway ( Memento from March 4, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
• Circle-Line project studio for the planned extension of the regional railway. (PDF; 5.91 MiB) (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on August 26, 2017 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DB Netze - Infrastructure Register
2. ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .
3. ↑ The history of the Nordbahntrasse , accessed on May 16, 2010.
4. ↑ Martin Krauss: Development of the Railway Infrastructure 1997/98, in: Bahn-Report 2/99, S. 4–7 (here: S. 5).
5. ^ Newsletter of the Wuppertal Movement eV with route photo from May 15, 2010
6. ↑ Nordbahntrasse wins German bicycle award , Westdeutsche Zeitung from May 18, 2015
7. ↑ ^{a b} route expansion. Regiobahn website, accessed on October 7, 2017.
8. ↑ We will transport you between Kaarst and Wuppertal - Planned construction work. Regiobahn, accessed on September 18, 2019 . 
9. ^ Andrea Schmitz: S 28: Expansion of the Regiobahn begins in January. In: Westdeutsche Zeitung online, December 19, 2013. Accessed October 7, 2017.
10. ↑ Sabine Maguire: Bats slow down the Regiobahn. In: RP Online, November 28, 2014. Retrieved October 7, 2017.
11. ↑ Oliver Wiegand: Regiobahn to Wuppertal will not come until 2019. In: Rheinische Post online, March 11, 2017. Accessed October 7, 2017.
12. ↑ Regiobahn: The first trains should run at the end of 2020. In: Westdeutsche Zeitung . August 21, 2019, accessed September 18, 2019 . 
13. ↑ Christoph Kleinau: Defect guarantee for the Regiobahn. In: NGZ online . July 8, 2019, accessed February 7, 2020 . 
14. ↑ Germany-Mettmann: Contact line construction work - 2019 / S 228-560676 - announcement of awarded contracts - sectors - results of the award procedure - construction contract. In: Tenders Electronic Daily . European Commission , November 26, 2019, accessed February 7, 2020 .