Duisburg-Wedau – Bottrop Süd railway line

Duisburg-Wedau-Bottrop South
Route number (DB) :	2321 (Duisburg-Wedau – Oberhausen West) 2323 (Duisburg-Hochfeld Süd – Sigle) 2320 (Sigle – Oberhausen West) 2280 (Oberhausen West – Essen-Frintrop) 2244 (Essen-Frintrop – Prosper-Levin) 2243 (Prosper-Levin– Bottrop Süd) 2242 (Gerschede – Bottrop Hbf Gbf)
Course book section (DB) :	% (freight traffic only)
Route length:	23 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system :	15 kV 16.7 Hz  ~
Top speed:	80 km / h
Legend Freight route to Wanne-Eickel 8.3 Bottrop south Route to Hamm (1.5)00.0 Bottrop Hbf Gbf Route to Bottrop Hbf Route to Oberhausen-Osterfeld Emscher (0.0) 07.5 Gerschede (Abzw) Route OB-Osterfeld – Essen-Horl 7.4 Bottrop Klöckner raw materials trading (Awanst) Rhine-Herne Canal former route to Essen-Horl 0.0 06.4 Food Prosper-Levin (Abzw) Bottrop – Essen-Dellwig Ost line Line from Gelsenkirchen (5.5) Essen-Dellwig (Abzw) Route to Oberhausen former route to Essen-Dellwig Ost 1.7 06.7 Essen-Frintrop Fbn (Abzw) 4.5 Food Frintrop 4.3 Osterfeld (Abzw, old) former route to Bottrop Nord Freight route from Bottrop Nord 3.5 Oberhausen-Osterfeld junction Line from Oberhausen-Osterfeld (16.0) 000 Oberhausen-Osterfeld West (Bft) Route to Oberhausen-Sterkrade Route to Oberhausen Hbf Emscher and Rhine-Herne Canal 14.2 02.2 Oberhausen rolling mill (Abzw) Connection to the route to Essen-Dellwig Oberhausen – Emmerich railway line Connection to Oberhausen Hbf Obn 13.0 01.4 Oberhausen West Oro (Bft) 11.9 00.0 Oberhausen West Orm (Bft) 11.9 00.0 Oberhausen West (formerly OB RhE) 11.8 00.0 Oberhausen Mathilde (Abzw) 11.0 00.0 Oberhausen West Orw (Bft) 10.1 00.0 Oberhausen West Stw 1 (Bft) Freight line to Moers Duisburg-Ruhrort – Oberhausen line former route DU-Ruhrort – Mülheim-Styrum to Duisburg-Ruhrort Hafen 8.6 00.0 Duisburg Ruhrtal (Abzw, old) former route to Kaiserberg (Abzw) 8.5 00.0 Duisburg Ruhrtal (Abzw) "Südkurve" from Duisburg-Ruhrort Hafen 7.8 00.0 Flood bridge (Bk) Dysentery (07.4 (06.3 ( Kilometer jump ) 6.1 00.0 Duisburg Sigle (Abzw) to Duisburg harbor Main line Duisburg Hbf – Oberhausen Hbf Main line Duisburg Hbf – Mülheim Hbf 4.8 00.0 Monning (Bk) 3.8 00.0 Duisburg Lotharstrasse (Abzw) 2.8 00.0 Lotharstrasse (Bk) Route DU-Hochfeld Süd – Mülheim-Speldorf Line from Duisburg Hbf 0.4 00.0 Duisburg-Wedau (Freight) route to Ratingen Swell:

The Duisburg-Wedau-Bottrop Süd railway line is a railway line in Germany used exclusively for freight traffic . It leads from the former freight yard Duisburg-Wedau or from the freight yard Duisburg-Hochfeld Süd via the freight yard Oberhausen West to the freight yard Bottrop Süd. The railway line connects many other and important railway lines in Duisburg , Oberhausen and Bottrop , in particular it creates the connection to the Duisburg and Ruhrorter ports and serves as a freight bypass for the railway node Duisburg Hauptbahnhof .

Routing

Strictly speaking, the four-track railway line on the eastern outskirts of Duisburg is a total of three different routes, which share a common route from the overpass over Lotharstrasse in Duisburg-Neudorf to the overpass over Obermeidericher Strasse in Duisburg-Obermeiderich , largely in parallel to the federal motorway 3 .

From the rolling mill junction (northeast of Oberhausen West and Oberhausen Hbf), the routes of various routes that were previously used in other routes are used, so the VzG number changes here at short intervals. All six railway lines in the sense of the directory of permissible speeds are now classified as main lines , consistently double-track and electrified with overhead lines.

history

After the Prussian State Railways had taken over all the large private railway companies at the end of the 19th century, various route networks now had to be meaningfully merged. Although had Cologne-Minden Railway Company (CME), Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company (BME) and Rhenish Railway Company (RhE) well connected to each other their respective networks, but even out separately and at times parallel. After the nationalization, many relations were linked to one another several times, but without being able to be used optimally.

The RhE had built its Troisdorf – Mülheim-Speldorf line parallel to the CME's Cologne – Duisburg line and connected it with its Duisburg train station (now Duisburg main station ) shortly before the nationalization . From there, the Duisburg – Quakenbrück line of the RhE in the direction of Oberhausen ran roughly parallel to the Duisburg – Dortmund line (or further along the Wanne-Eickel – Hamburg line ) of the CME.

Since both RhE routes had never played a major role for passenger traffic, they were now primarily used for freight traffic, the Oberhausen West passenger station (formerly Oberhausen RhE) was closed and passenger traffic was shifted to the CME routes.

In place of the former Rheinischer Bahnhof, a freight yard was built with several track harps and a total of over seventy shunting and directional tracks. As early as June 1, 1891, a new connection to the Osterfeld Süd freight yard (today: Oberhausen-Osterfeld station ) was created on the Duisburg-Ruhrort – Dortmund line (formerly CME).

In order to spare the through freight trains the detour via Duisburg main station, a completely new, double-track route was put into operation on October 1, 1901 on the eastern outskirts of Duisburg, which leads directly from the Duisburg-Wedau freight station to the Düssern junction (today Sigle junction ) .

Ten years later, this line was built to double-track parallel to the existing line to Oberhausen West, and at the same time, on September 17, 1911, another double-track line was opened from the Duisburg-Hochfeld Süd freight station to the Düsseldorf junction . This means that the line between the Lotharstrasse junction and the rolling mill junction is virtually four-track.

Todays situation

VzG route 2280 near Oberhausen-Osterfeld Abzw, 2015

The electrification of the lines was completed on May 27, 1962.

From 1998 to 2006 the Oberhausen junction was completely redesigned. The four-track entry and exit from Oberhausen West Oro to the Oberhausen Walzwerk junction was dismantled to two tracks, and the connection to the Holland line was moved. The connection to Oberhausen Hbf Obo is reduced to one track.

The curve Mathilde - Oberhausen West Oro - Oberhausen Hbf was removed and a single track was tied to the Dutch route. The opposite direction leads over the connection from Oberhausen West to the Holland route and touches the freight yard Oberhausen West in the Oro branch. Trains from the Ruhrtal junction, from Duisburg-Ruhrort Hafen and Duisburg-Beeck in the direction of Oberhausen Hbf Obo have been running through Oberhausen West since then, the opposite direction is still directly connected to the Mathilde junction.

At the end of the 1990s, a connection line to the Duisburg-Ruhrort Hafen freight station, the "Südkurve", was put into operation from the Ruhrtal junction, which enables direct access to the port station from the south. Until now, trains had to turn in Oberhausen West. To this end, a new single-track bridge was built over the Rhine-Herne Canal .

The maximum route speed is 80 km / h, but is limited in places to 70 km / h, 60 km / h and 40 km / h.

In December 2006, in the control center put the CBI Duisburg Duisburg Wedau in operation. Two locally responsible dispatchers (özF) control operations on the Tiefenbroich - Duisburg Wedau and Duisburg Mannesmann - Mülheim (Ruhr) -Speldorf sections .

In the summer of 2008, the Mathilde signal box is to take over the exit group for the Duisburg-Ruhrort Hafen station. All other DB interlockings there will be closed, the points replaced by EOW . A Duisport Rail signal box remains open.

Trivia

Since the route passes directly on the Duisburg campus of the University of Duisburg-Essen , as part of the forced merger of the Gerhard Mercator University of Duisburg and the University of Essen, there were brief considerations of building a platform north of the Lotharstraße junction. The same should be done on the Osterath – Dortmund Süd railway line , which passes immediately south of the Essen campus. However, since there is no connection between the two routes in the direct direction of travel, the plan was discarded for cost reasons.

Web links

Track plans of DB Netz AG &:

• Tracks in service facilities (EOBR) , DB Netz AG (PDF; 1.47 MiB) (Oberhausen West)
• Tracks in service facilities (ESI) , DB Netz AG (PDF; 524 kiB) (Duisburg Sigle)

NRWbahnarchiv by André Joost:

• Description of route 2321 : Duisburg-Wedau ↔ Oberhausen Hbf Obn
• Description of route 2323 : Duisburg-Hochfeld Süd ↔ Sigle
• Description of route 2320 : Sigle ↔ Oberhausen-Osterfeld Süd
• Description of route 2280 : Oberhausen West ↔ Essen-Frintrop
• Description of route 2244 : Essen-Frintrop ↔ Prosper-Levin
• Description of route 2243 : Prosper-Levin ↔ Bottrop Süd
• Description of route 2242 : Gerschede ↔ Bottrop Hbf Gbf

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DB Netze - Infrastructure Register
2. ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .