Dortmund – Hamm railway line
The Dortmund – Hamm railway is one of the most important and busiest railway lines in Germany . It is the main axis of the Schienenpersonenfern- , -nahverkehrs and freight traffic between the Ruhr and the northern and eastern Germany.
It is part of the main line from Cologne-Deutz to Minden built by the Cologne-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (CME) , after which the company was named. It was opened in 1847 and has since been modernized and expanded several times.
history
After receiving the Prussian concession for its eponymous route on December 18, 1843 , the Cologne-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft began building the first section to Düsseldorf in the then independent Deutz , which it was able to open on December 20, 1845.
Only a few weeks later on February 9, 1846, the second section to Duisburg was completed, the provisional end point was the "Köln-Mindener Bahnhof", the first of three stations at the same location, which is now Duisburg's main train station.
With the next section via Oberhausen, Altenessen, Gelsenkirchen, Wanne, Herne and Dortmund to Hamm, a conscious decision was made against a route near the former coal mines on the northern bank of the Ruhr and in favor of the cheaper route because it was less hilly and therefore easier to implement . Nevertheless, it took well over a year until this section could also go into operation on May 15, 1847.
In the same year, on October 15, 1847, the last section to Minden and thus the entire 263 km long, single-track line was completed. On the same day, the Royal Hanover State Railways opened their Hanover – Minden line .
expansion
Since its opening, the Dortmund – Hamm railway line has been continuously expanded and modernized in accordance with its steadily growing importance for railway traffic in the west-east direction. It has at least two tracks throughout and was equipped with electrical overhead lines along its entire length at the end of the 1950s .
The first Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan (1973) introduced the upgraded line Dortmund, Hanover and Braunschweig as a scheduled eight expansion projects in the field of railways.
In 1986, scheduled operation at 200 km / h was started in a 20.1 km long section between Nordbögge (near Hamm) and Dortmund. At the beginning of the 1990s, the exemption, which allowed existing level crossings to be driven on at more than 160 km / h, was not extended. Since then some of the level crossings have been replaced by bridges.
Since 2005, the line has been equipped with regular train control between kilometers 120.4 and 143.4 and, with the exception of the section between kilometers 130.4 and 134.1, can be driven at 200 km / h. In between, the maximum permissible speed is 160 km / h due to the last two level crossings. The renovation of the BÜ 12 Südkamenerstraße, near Kamen, will continue for a few more years, as the necessary property rights are not available. An underpass is planned for which the first construction work took place in 2012. The approach signal was relocated and a new section separator (switch for the overhead line) was installed.
service
The route is served every hour by the Intercity Express line 10 from Cologne via Duisburg, Essen, Hanover to Berlin and mostly every two hours by InterCity lines or other ICE trains, see also the list of Intercity Express stations or List of intercity train stations .
In regional traffic, the regional express lines RE 1 " NRW-Express ", RE 3 " Rhein-Emscher-Express " and RE 6 " Rhein-Weser-Express ", as well as the RE 11 " Rhein-Hellweg-Express " run every hour ". The RE 1 and RE 11 lines sometimes serve all intermediate stops, with the RE 6 only stopping in Kamen, see also the list of local rail transport lines in North Rhine-Westphalia .
Local passenger transport is carried out by DB Regio NRW (line RE 1), Abellio Rail NRW (line RE 11), National Express (line RE 6) and the Eurobahn (line RE 3). In the future, the current services to Abellio and Keolis with vehicles from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia will be transferred. (As of 2019)
Tariff
The route is to the Kamen train station in the area of the Rhein-Ruhr transport association (VRR). The Ruhr-Lippe tariff of the Verkehrsgemeinschaft Ruhr-Lippe applies to regional traffic between Kamen and Hamm . In addition, transitional regulations apply to the VRR and Münsterland tariffs of the Münsterland transport association and the supraregional NRW tariff .
Web links
NRWbahnarchiv by André Joost:
- Description of route 2650 : Dortmund ↔ Hamm
- Description of route 2106 : Abzw Dortmund Dbw ↔ Abzw Körne
Individual evidence
- ↑ DB Netze - Infrastructure Register
- ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .
- ^ Rüdiger Block: On New Paths. The new lines of the Deutsche Bundesbahn . In: Eisenbahn-Kurier Special: High-speed traffic . No. 21, 1991, ISSN 0170-5288 , pp. 30-35.
- ^ Rüdiger Block: ICE racetrack: the new lines . In: Eisenbahn-Kurier Special: High-speed traffic . No. 21, 1991, pp. 36-45.