Duisburg-Ruhrort – Mönchengladbach railway line
| Duisburg-Ruhrort-Mönchengladbach | |
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 today's route
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| Route number (DB) : | 2332 (Duisburg-Homberg – Duisburg-Trompet) 2 (Duisburg-Trompet – Krefeld-Uerdingen) 2520 (Krefeld-Uerdingen – Mönchengladbach) |
| Course book section (DB) : | 490 (Duisburg – Mönchengladbach) 485 (Viersen – Mönchengladbach) |
| Route length: | 42 km |
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) |
| Power system : | 15 kV 16.7 Hz ~ |
| Top speed: | 120 km / h |
The Duisburg-Ruhrort – Mönchengladbach railway is a historically significant, but now partially disused railway line in Germany . The route was built by the Ruhrort-Crefeld-Kreis Gladbacher Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (RCG), which had received a corresponding concession in 1847.
Today, the greater part of the line, together with the western part of the Ruhr area line of the Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (RhE) as the Duisburg – Mönchengladbach line, forms one of the most important railway connections on the left Lower Rhine from Duisburg Hbf to Mönchengladbach Hbf .
history
Start time
The Ruhrort – Crefeld – Gladbach railway line should be a traffic route to bring the coal mined in the Ruhr area to consumers on the left Lower Rhine. The RCG therefore concluded a contract with the Cologne-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (CME), which at that time was the only railway company that was already active in the northern Ruhr area. This built a Oberhausen from their regular route outgoing branch line to Ruhrort , the October 14, 1848 completed was.
The RCG began the construction of its line exactly on the opposite side of the Rhine, in Homberg on the left Lower Rhine, today in the urban area of Duisburg. The connection to the Ruhrort train station on the right bank of the Rhine was established on November 12, 1852 by the Ruhrort – Homberg trajectory , with the help of which passenger and freight cars could cross the river.
On October 15, 1849, the route from Homberg via Trompet , Kaldenhausen, Uerdingen and Crefeld to Viersen was opened. Exactly two years later, on October 15, 1851, the last section of the line to Gladbach (today's Mönchengladbach ) was completed. From 1853 it was connected to the railway lines to Aachen and to Düsseldorf of the Aachen-Neuss-Düsseldorfer Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (AND).
Even before it had completed its route, the RCG was transferred to state administration together with the AND on April 1, 1850 and placed under the "Royal Directorate of the Aachen-Düsseldorf-Ruhrorter Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft ". This was then taken over on January 1, 1866 by the (also state-administered) Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (BME).
The BME then built a branch line from its train station in Mülheim-Styrum to its Witten / Dortmund-Oberhausen / Duisburg line to Duisburg-Ruhrort, which was opened in 1862 , and ran continuous kilometers from the former Aachen RhE / Marschierthor train station (kilometer 0.0) to Dortmund Hbf (kilometer 164.3).
business
After the RhE had replaced its original trajectory with the Duisburg-Hochfelder railway bridge, this quickly overtook the Ruhrort – Homberg trajectory . As a result, the section from Duisburg-Homberg to Hohenbudberg increasingly lost its importance. The Ruhrort – Homberg trajectory was shut down on May 19, 1907.
During the occupation of the Ruhr on March 17, 1923, sabotage caused a serious railway accident in the Friemersheim district when a locomotive collided with a military train. At least 40 people died and a large number were injured. The track was as during the occupation of the Ruhr Regiebetrieb out of French Field railwaymen.
The line between Homberg and Trompet was damaged in World War II and was not put back into operation. Today there is only factory traffic from Trompet to the connection points of the Sachtleben Chemie company . The connection from Rheinhausen to Trompet (and further via Moers to Kleve ) created in the course of the Lower Rhine route proved to be the more economical one, especially since the Hohenbudberg marshalling yard to the south-west could be accessed directly with an additional track connection. Passenger traffic between Trompet and Uerdingen was finally stopped on September 30, 1961, goods traffic followed just one day later on October 1, 1961. All track systems - unless used on the Lower Rhine route or the new main route from Duisburg Hbf to Mönchengladbach - were completely dismantled and these days can only be guessed at from aerial photographs. The former Kaldenhausen station was shut down on May 25, 1961 and subsequently completely dismantled.
laying
In 1917 the line was relocated in the Viersen area. Originally it ran from the station Viersen BME direct route between today Viersener districts Helenabrunn and Heimer through to the point north of the Graf-Haeseler Street in Moenchengladbach, where today the running from the station Viersen-Helenabrunn initially parallel to the new line of goods bypass railway Mönchengladbach the Trasse leaves. At the time, the Helenabrunn stop was at the level of the districts of Helenabrunn and Heimer . Since it was relocated, the line has been curved to the north, where it first meets the Neuss – Viersen line built by the Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (RhE) and finally reaches today's Viersen station, which was also opened by the RhE.
The BME station was no longer used after the relocation and was dismantled. As a replacement for the Helenabrunn stop, the Viersen-Helenabrunn train station (opened as Helenabrunn ) was built on the new route at the level of Neuwerker Straße, right next to the current city limits of Mönchengladbach . However, this is now closer to the Heimer district and relatively far away from Helenabrunn. The L 116 (Freiheitsstraße / Kölnische Straße) now runs on the former route.
Todays situation
Even if the first section from Homberg to Hohenbudberg no longer exists, the greater part of the route is still in operation today. It has grown together with the western part of the Osterath – Dortmund Süd railway line of the former Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft as well as its branch line to the Duisburg train station (RhE) - today part of the Duisburg main station - to form a very important regional route.
The main line from Duisburg Hbf via Duisburg-Hochfeld Süd and Hohenbudberg (from here via the historical route) to Mönchengladbach Hbf is now two-track and electrified .
Urgently needed, but not implemented modernization measures have so far prevented more intensive use of the route, so just four trains per hour run between Duisburg main station and Rheinhausen, one of them in the direction of Moers and Xanten, see Lower Rhine route .
In addition, the trains on this route cross with those on the left-hand Lower Rhine route at the same level in the aprons of Krefeld's main train station , the same applies to trains from the Mönchengladbach – Düsseldorf line in Mönchengladbach central station .
Offer
Today's main line is served hourly by the Regional-Express Niers-Haard-Express (RE 42), which connects Mönchengladbach and the left Lower Rhine with the western Ruhr area and Münster (Westphalia) .
The regional trains Rhein-Niers-Bahn (RB 33) from Aachen via Mönchengladbach and Duisburg to Essen and Emscher-Niederrhein-Bahn (RB 35) from Mönchengladbach via Duisburg to Gelsenkirchen are only slightly slower .
Tariff
The entire route is in the tariff area of the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr (VRR). For journeys within the VRR, only the network tariff is used, for journeys beyond the network there are connection tickets (also to Venlo ), as well as the NRW tariff .
See also
- Duisburg-Meiderich Nord – Hohenbudberg railway line ( PSE )
- Duisburg-Ruhrort – Dortmund (CME) railway line
- Railway line Mülheim-Styrum – Duisburg-Ruhrort (BME)
literature
- Klaus Sefzig: The Trompet - Homberg railway line . In: Freundeskreis lively Grafschaft (Ed.): Yearbook of the districts on the left bank of the Rhine in the city of Duisburg 2004/05 . 2005, ISSN 0931-2137 , p. 85 ff .
- Hans-Paul Höpfner: Railways. Your story on the Lower Rhine . Mercator Verlag, Duisburg 1986, ISBN 978-3-87463-132-7 .
Web links
NRWbahnarchiv by André Joost:
- Description of route 2332 : Duisburg-Homberg-Duisburg-Trompet
- Description of former route 2 : Duisburg-Trompet – Krefeld-Uerdingen (route number according to source)
- Description of route 2520 : Krefeld-Uerdingen – Mönchengladbach Hbf
Rhenish Railway Company:
- Description of route 2312 : Duisburg Hbf – Duisburg-Hochfeld Süd
- Description of route 2505 : Duisburg-Hochfeld Süd – Krefeld-Uerdingen – Krefeld-Oppum
- Description of route 2504 : Rheinhausen – Krefeld-Uerdingen – Lohbruch junction
Individual evidence
- ↑ Numbering according to the source but controversial, cf. H.-W. Dumjahn: Deutsche Reichsbahn, manual of the German railway lines. Verlag Dumjahn, Mainz 1984, ISBN 3-921426-29-4 .
- ↑ Description of the operating agency .HBH
- ↑ Description of the operating agency KKRU
- ↑ Description of the KKRX operations center
- ↑ DB Netze - Infrastructure Register
- ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .
- ^ Klaus Kemp: Regiebahn. Reparations, occupation, war against the Ruhr, Reichsbahn. The railways in the Rhineland and the Ruhr area 1918–1930 . EK-Verlag , Freiburg 2016. ISBN 978-3-8446-6404-1 , p. 296.
- ^ Hans Joachim Ritzau: Railway disasters in Germany. Splinters of German history . Volume 1, Verlag Zeit und Eisenbahn, Landsberg-Pürgen 1979, ISBN 3-921304-38-6 , p. 84.