Duisburg – Dortmund railway line
The Duisburg – Dortmund railway line is an important and historically significant railway line in Germany . It is a main axis of long-distance and local rail passenger transport , as well as freight transport in the northern Ruhr area , u. a. used by Intercity-Express , Intercity , Regional-Express , Regionalbahn and the Rhein-Ruhr S-Bahn .
The main train stations of Duisburg , Oberhausen , Gelsenkirchen , Wanne-Eickel and Dortmund as well as the regionally important train stations Essen-Altenessen and Herne are located on it .
It is the middle part of the main line from Cologne-Deutz to Minden , built by the Cologne-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (CME) , after which the company was named. The line was opened in 1847 and has since been modernized and expanded several times. Today it has two to four tracks , is electrified and classified as a main line .
history
After receiving the Prussian concession for its eponymous line on December 18, 1843 , CME began building the first section to Düsseldorf in what was then (Cöln-) 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 "Cöln-Mindener Bahnhof" built at the site of today's Duisburg main station, the first of later three stations of the three largest, nominally private Railway companies in the same place.
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 more level and therefore more cost-effective and easier to implement route. 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-kilometer long and initially single-track line was completed. On the same day, the Royal Hanover State Railways opened their Hanover – Minden line .
Branch line to (Duisburg-) Ruhrort
From the Oberhausen train station (today's Oberhausen main station ), the CME built a branch line to Ruhrort to the port facilities there in 1848 and agreed with the Ruhrort-Crefeld-Kreis Gladbacher Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft to build the Ruhrort-Homberg railroad .
Oberhausen – Netherlands
The Oberhausen train station was also the starting point for the railway line to Arnhem via Wesel and Emmerich am Rhein, which opened on October 20, 1856 . This is also known colloquially as the "Holland route", but incorrectly because it ends in Gelderland .
Venlo and Ruhr area – Hamburg
The Wanne station (today's Wanne-Eickel Hauptbahnhof ) was then the starting point for the railway line to Hamburg from January 1, 1870 , sometimes misleadingly referred to as the “taxiway”. This railway line to the German North Sea coast was part of the Paris – Hamburg Railway, which was also built by CME as the Hamburg – Venlo Railway in accordance with the Prussian concession.
"Emschertalbahn"
Largely parallel to its main route, the CME built another route from Duisburg to Dortmund via Osterfeld Süd and Wanne through the northern Ruhr area between 1871 and 1878 to improve the development of coal mines and prosperous industrial plants .
Todays situation
Since its opening, the Duisburg – Dortmund railway line has been continuously expanded and modernized in line with its growing importance for the coal mining industry, which has migrated north from the central Ruhr area. Today, the entire length of the line is at least double-tracked and fully electrified.
Compared to the other west-east connections, in particular the central Ruhr area route of the former Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft , the line is of less importance today, but it is still an important axis - also in contrast to the Rheinische Bahn - to this day can claim. Urgently needed but not implemented modernization measures have so far prevented more intensive use of the route, for example the S-Bahn S 2 only runs once an hour.
The Essen-Katernberg Süd S-Bahn stop, located near the Zollverein World Heritage Site , was renamed Essen Zollverein Nord in 2009 .
Offer
Long-distance trains only use parts of the route:
The section from Duisburg to Oberhausen is used by trains from three Intercity-Express lines, mostly on the way to Amsterdam, and on their journey to Arnhem from the regional express line RE 19 “ Rhein-IJssel-Express ” Route to Wesel from the regional express line RE 5 “ Rhein-Express ”, as well as the regional train line RB 35 “ Emscher-Niederrhein-Bahn ”.
The IC 35 line, which runs every two hours, uses a large part of the route from Duisburg to Wanne-Eickel. There are also isolated trains on the IC 32 line , the RE 2 “ Rhein-Haard-Express ” and RE 42 “ Niers-Haard-Express ” regional express lines , as well as the RB 46 “ Glückauf-Bahn ” regional train on the short section from Gelsenkirchen to Wanne-Eickel.
The S-Bahn line S 2 ran every 20 minutes at that time only on the section between Herne and Dortmund-Mengede, from there to Dortmund it uses the route to Dortmund South of the former Royal Westphalian Railway Company . In Herne, one train per hour takes the route to Recklinghausen. On the stretch between Herne and Gelsenkirchen, the S-Bahn now runs every 60 minutes, this train ends in Essen . In December 2019, the timetable was modified and partially replaced by changed train routes. The regional train lines RB 35 “ Emscher-Niederrhein-Bahn ” (during rush hour ) and RB 32 “Rhein-Emscher-Bahn” (daily), which run like the RE 3, were added. However, they serve all stops of the S-Bahn line S 2, which was previously used there, between Duisburg and Gelsenkirchen.
Between Düsseldorf and Hamm, only the regional express line RE 3 " Rhein-Emscher-Express " follows the route of the main line of the Cologne-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft over its entire length .
Tariff
The entire route is in the area of the Rhein-Ruhr transport association . The regional VRR tariff and the NRW tariff apply to journeys on all regional trains .
Trivia
Along the Duisburg – Dortmund railway line there is the otherwise rather rare constellation that two main stations follow one another, i.e. H. without another train station or stopping point between them. On the one hand these are Duisburg Hauptbahnhof and Oberhausen Hauptbahnhof , on the other hand Gelsenkirchen Hauptbahnhof and Wanne-Eickel Hauptbahnhof .
As a further curiosity, the latter is probably the only main train station that, as the most important train station in the city, does not bear its name. Wanne-Eickel Hauptbahnhof is in Herne , but it is more important than Herne station . There are historical reasons for this: The train station in Herne was never the main train station because the city of Herne and its train station were insignificant from the perspective of the railway. The train station in the formerly independent town of Wanne, on the other hand, has been of steadily growing importance since the line to Hamburg, which is known colloquially as the “taxiway”, and became its main station when several localities merged to form the town of Wanne-Eickel. After Wanne-Eickel was incorporated into the city of Herne, the Deutsche Bundesbahn left it with the ancestral names in order to keep the city's most important station in the "rank" of a central station and to save the cost of renaming.
Web links
NRWbahnarchiv by André Joost:
- Description of route 2650 : Duisburg ↔ Dortmund
- Description of route 2277 : Oberhausen ↔ Essen-Altenessen
- Description of route 2230 : Gelsenkirchen-Hessler ↔ Wanne-Eickel
- Description of route 2231 : Gelsenkirchen ↔ Wanne-Eickel
- Description of route 2208 : Wanne-Eickel ↔ Herne Hot
former routes:
- Description of route 2170 : Essen-Altenessen ↔ Essen North
- Description of route 2177 : Essen-Bergeborbeck ↔ Essen North
- Description of route 2178 : Essen-Segeroth ↔ Essen CME
Deutsche Bahn AG:
Individual evidence
- ↑ DB Netze - Infrastructure Register
- ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .