Dortmund – Soest railway line
The Dortmund – Soest railway line is a railway line in North Rhine-Westphalia . It leads from Dortmund Central Station through the southern Dortmund districts via Holzwickede to Unna and from there through Hellwegbörde parallel to Haarstrang on the southern edge of the Westphalian Bight via Werl to Soest .
The line is double-tracked throughout , electrified with overhead lines and classified as a main line . It is served over its entire length by the regional train RB 59 "Hellweg-Bahn" of the Hellweg network .
history
As early as 1833 there were concrete efforts to route the Rhine-Weser Railway via Unna, Werl, Soest to Lippstadt. After the route of the Cologne-Mindener Railway was run via Hamm, despite high efforts and advertising by the cities of Soest and Lippstadt, there was another attempt. After renewed efforts to build a railway line from Dortmund to Soest from 1850, the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV approved the construction of the line from Hörde to Soest on June 3, 1852 by cabinet order . Construction work began on September 15, 1853 in Werl . After a first test run on June 7, 1855 and the commissioning of the line on July 1, 1855 by the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft , the first scheduled train ran from Dortmund to Soest on July 9, 1855. In 1866, the line was expanded to two tracks and electrified by the end of 1970.
service
The route Dortmund-Soest is operated in rail transport Monday to Saturday, every half hour and Sundays every hour from the regional train Hellweg train ( RB 59 ).
On December 14, 2008, the operation of the Hellweg network went to the Eurobahn company through a tender . Stadler Flirt railcars for speeds of up to 160 km / h are used for the transport services.
The tariffs of the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr (VRR) and the Verkehrsgemeinschaft Ruhr-Lippe (VRL) apply . In August 2017, the VRL was replaced by the Westphalian tariff .
future
Measures to increase capacity and quality are required for the Dortmund Hbf - Dortmund-Hörde section. The almost two kilometer long section in the apron of Dortmund main station, parallel to the line to Witten, is currently only used on a single track by 12 trains (RB 52, RB 53, RE 57, RB 59) per hour. In addition, the regional rail transport advisory board of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia is calling for block consolidation in this section of the route.
Picture gallery
Flirt of the eurobahn on a presentation trip on July 29, 2008 in Dortmund.
eurobahn ET 5.09 on the Hellwegbahn in Westönnen
eurobahn ET 5.06 in Dortmund-Aplerbeck station before its renovation
literature
- Günter Krause: The Hellweg Bahn. From the district to the country. 150 years of Dortmund – Soest. Railway History No. 11/2005, pp. 42–50.
- Axel Heimsoth: The Rediscovery of the Hellweg - Regional Identity as Reflected in Transport Policy Discussions up to the Construction of the Dortmund-Soester Railway. Klartext Verlag, Essen 2006, ISBN 3-89861-591-X .
- Bernd Franco Hoffmann: The Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn. Through the valleys of Wupper, Ruhr and Volme ; Sutton-Verlag, Erfurt, 2015, ISBN 978-3954005802
Web links
- Description of route 2103 in the NRWbahnarchiv by André Joost
- History of the Holzwickede train station
- Description of the line RB 59