Duisburg-Meiderich Nord – Hohenbudberg railway line

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Duisburg-Meiderich North - Hohenbudberg
Oberhausen West - Meerbeck (Abzw)
Route number (DB) : 2331 (OB Walzwerk - Meerbeck)
2333 (DU-Baerl - Hohenbudberg)
Course book section (DB) : % (only GV)
last 476 (1983)
ex 243a (1963)
Route length: (21 km) 18 km
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Route class : D4
Power system : 15 kV 16.7 Hz  ~
Top speed: 100 km / h
Train control : PZB90
Dual track : Mayor Rolling Mill - Mayor Mathilde
DU-Meiderich Ost - Meerbeck
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Route from OB-Osterfeld / Bottrop Süd
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27.1 Oberhausen rolling mill (Abzw)
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Holland route Wesel – Oberhausen
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Route to Duisburg / Dortmund
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24.8 Oberhausen West (formerly Oberhausen RhE)
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Line from Oberhausen Hbf
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24.8 Oberhausen Mathilde (Abzw)
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A 3
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two routes to Duisburg-Hochfeld / Wedau
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two routes to Duisburg-Ruhrort Hafen
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( Rhine-Herne Canal )
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22.8 Duisburg-Meiderich East (Abzw)
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Duisburg-Meiderich East
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former route from Mülheim-Styrum
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21.2 Duisburg-Meiderich South
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Route to Duisburg-Ruhrort
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former route from OB-Osterfeld
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21.1 Duisburg-Meiderich North
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former route to Duisburg-Ruhrort
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( A 59 )
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19.8 Buschmannshof (Abzw)
   
17.5 Duisburg-Beeck
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15.0 Duisburg-Beeckerwerth
   
3.8 13.1 Haus-Knipp-Bridge ( Rhine , kilometer jump )
   
3.5 12.9 Duisburg-Baerl (formerly Bf, most recently Üst)
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Friedrich Heinrich – Rhein Prussia Harbor
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(formerly level-free threading)
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Rheinberg – Moers route
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Lower Rhine route from Xanten
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0.0            Meerbeck (Abzw)
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Lower Rhine route to Moers
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former Moers – Homberg line
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A 40
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Lower Rhine route from Moers
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6.0 Oestrum (Abzw)
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Trompet – Homberg freight line
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4.5 Bergheim (b Moers)
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Trompet freight line
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Lower Rhine route from Trompet to Rheinhausen
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Line from Rheinhausen
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0.5 Hohenbudberg (formerly Rbf)
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0.0 Duisburg-Mühlenberg (Abzw)
Route - straight ahead
Route to Krefeld

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The railway line Duisburg-Meiderich North - Hohenbudberg is a former used primarily by freight railway line in Germany from the station Duisburg-Meiderich North for marshalling yard Hohenbudberg with branch line to the former railway station Rheinpreußen .

It connects today as railway Oberhausen West - Meerbeck the freight station Oberhausen West on the freight line from Duisburg-Wedau to Bottrop South with the branching point Meerbeck (Abzw) on the route Rheinhausen-Xanten .

history

After the closure of the Ruhrort – Homberg trajectory on May 19, 1907, a simple ferry service across the Rhine was maintained for passenger traffic, but freight traffic had to be routed via a different route, as the Duisburg-Hochfelder railway bridge could only be reached via detours .

The Prussian State Railways began construction of their new line at the Duisburg-Meiderich Nord station on the Duisburg-Ruhrort-Dortmund line . It ran right through the middle between the densely populated areas of Ruhrort and Beeck and crossed the Rhine between Beeckerwerth and Baerl over the Haus-Knipp railway bridge .

At Baerl station, the line forked level , a branch line led west to Rheinpreußen station on the Lower Rhine route (north direction). The actual route again ran through the middle between the densely populated areas of Homberg and Moers . It met at the Asberg junction on the Lower Rhine route (direction south) and followed this to the Oestrum junction.

After the Duisburg-Ruhrort-Mönchengladbach line was crossed, it ran via Bergheim station east of Toeppersee to the Hohenbudberg marshalling yard . In this form, the line was opened for freight traffic on October 1, 1912.

One year later, on September 1, 1913, an additional connection was put into operation from the Buschmannshof junction via Duisburg-Meiderich Süd to Oberhausen West station .

Between 1917 and 1920 the Rheinpreußen station was closed in favor of the Utfort stop just a kilometer further north . In 1923 the branch line was then swiveled south to the newly built junction in Meerbeck (Abzw).

The reason for this change was as follows: A railway line from Geldern to Baerl had been planned since 1908 . This provided a connection between the Ruhr area and the route to the Netherlands via Kleve. The aim was above all to bypass the congested routes near Duisburg, Rheinhausen and Moers. The connection should branch off from the freight route from Oberhausen to Hohenbudberg described in this lemma at the Baerl block. Starting from Baerl, the planned railway ran via Utfort, the aforementioned junction with the Rheinhausen − Kleve line, and in a westerly direction via the future stations Repelen , Lintfort , Dachsberg near Kamp-Lintfort , Sevelen and Hartefeld to Geldern. This should be connected to the Krefeld-Kleve line.

The construction of the embankment and overpasses were largely completed when the work was interrupted by the beginning of the First World War in 1914. After the war, from 1918 onwards, the victorious powers considered this route to be strategically important, as it could have served as a German deployment line in future wars to the West, to the Netherlands, Belgium and France. The winners therefore forbade further construction. When this ban fell in the early 1920s, the Reichsbahn was no longer interested in further construction. Large parts of the route are still recognizable as a railway embankment or as cuts. Partly new roads were led over the old embankment, so that it was leveled here and the area was provided with residential development. The dam also serves as a hiking trail; a completed bridge structure on Repelener Strasse in the Genend district , at the westernmost point, was covered with a commercially used hall.

passenger traffic

After the structural conditions for a continuous connection had been created, passenger traffic from Oberhausen Hauptbahnhof via Duisburg-Meiderich South on the one hand and from Osterfeld South via Duisburg-Meiderich North to Moers on the other hand was opened on May 29, 1929 .

Passenger traffic via Duisburg-Meiderich Nord was stopped on October 2, 1932. However, it continued via Duisburg-Meiderich Süd, apart from the time at the end of the Second World War , in which the Haus-Knipp railway bridge was destroyed.

Since the 1960s, passenger traffic on the route has only been carried out with battery-powered railcars of the DB series ETA 150 and then finally stopped on September 23, 1983.

Todays situation

Freight train from Duisburg-Beeck Gbf in Duisburg-Meiderich; here the railway line from Meiderich Nord to Ruhrort used to pass under the route

The section between Baerl and Hohenbudberg was shut down on August 25, 1969, and a good year later on October 1, 1970 the section between Duisburg-Meiderich Nord and the Buschmannshof junction followed. All tracks have now been completely dismantled.

The remaining section of the route has since been tied from Oberhausen West train station to the Meerbeck junction (Abzw) on the Lower Rhine route and leads via Duisburg-Beeck Gbf. This was planned as a marshalling yard , but despite largely completed earthworks, it was only put into operation as a temporary facility with around 15 tracks and was not rebuilt after being destroyed in the Second World War . Today, a total of four tracks remain, one siding has been separated and the other has been open again since October 2013 after a long period of closure. The DrS2 interlocking is remotely controlled from the Maf central interlocking near Oberhausen West. Due to the relocation of the route, there is a kilometer jump at the level of the Haus-Knipp-Brücke , there the kilometrage jumps from 3,800 to 13,070 (at the same time the regional border of the former Federal Railway Directorate Cologne and Essen ).

From 1998 the northern bridge track was out of service, freight traffic between the former Duisburg-Beeckerwerth stop and the Duisburg-Baerl transfer point took place on a single track. Construction work for the recommissioning of the second track began in May 2012, with completion in December 2012, the Duisburg-Baerl site was no longer available.

literature

  • Hans-Paul Höpfner: Railways. Your story on the Lower Rhine . Mercator Verlag, Duisburg 1986, ISBN 3-87463-132-X .

Web links

NRWbahnarchiv by André Joost:

Individual evidence

  1. DB Netze - Infrastructure Register
  2. Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .
  3. ^ Entry by Claus Weber on Repelen station in the " KuLaDig " database of the Rhineland Regional Council (with aerial photo showing the planned Repelen station), accessed on December 12, 2018.
  4. Drehscheibe-foren.de
  5. ^ Duisburg Baerl: Rhine bridge two-track again (DB-PM). In: Drehscheibe Online. December 3, 2012, accessed September 12, 2015 .