Elberfeld – Dortmund railway line
The Elberfeld – Dortmund railway is one of the most important and busiest railway lines in Germany . It is the main axis of long-distance passenger rail transport , local rail passenger transport and freight traffic immediately south of the Ruhr area , u. a. used by Intercity-Express , Intercity , Regional-Express , Regionalbahn and S-Bahn .
This 56 km long line is the main line of the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft , it was opened in 1849 and since then it has been expanded several times and electrified over its entire length.
history
Since the Köln-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft was planning to avoid the Bergisches Land along the Ruhr and Wupper when planning its route , the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (BME) acquired the Prussian concession for a rail link on July 12, 1844 highly industrialized area in the valley of the Wupper and the Bergisches Land in an easterly direction. The Düsseldorf-Elberfelder Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (DEE) , founded in 1837, had already completed a connection to the west to the Rhine in 1841.
Construction of the route
In 1825 Friedrich Harkort published the call for the construction of a railway from Cologne to Minden in the magazine " Hermann ", which he renewed in 1833 in the text he wrote: "The railway from Minden to Cöln" . The BME built the line from 1844 according to Harkort's plans and put it into operation in individual sections.
Single track construction
- On October 9, 1847, the Elberfeld -Schwelm section was opened for passenger traffic.
- Because of the difficult conditions above the Kruiner Tunnel in the Schwelm-Gevelsberg section, the construction of the route here made only slow progress
- On December 20, 1848, goods traffic was started on the entire Elberfeld-Dortmund route
- On March 9, 1849, passenger traffic began in the Schwelm-Dortmund section
Two-track expansion
- By the end of 1860, the Elberfeld-Schwelm and Milspe-Dortmund sections were expanded to two tracks
- 1882, double-track expansion of the Schwelm-Milspe section (later Ennepetal station)
electrification
The entire line has been operated electrically since May 29, 1964.
Expansion of the main line
After the nationalization of the BME, work began on gradually expanding this line, which connects the important railway hubs Düsseldorf and Dortmund. Between 1900 and 1915 an additional pair of tracks was built for local traffic (called "local tracks" in the parlance of the railway) in order to keep the existing tracks free for through trains. The first tracks were built between Unter- and Oberbarmen by 1911, from Elberfeld to Vohwinkel they were opened on April 10, 1913, and two years later the gap between Elberfeld and Unterbarmen was closed.
On December 12, 1939, a serious railway accident occurred between the stations of Hagen-Vorhalle and Wetter (Ruhr) when two passenger trains collided due to faulty dispatchers and signal boxes. 15 people died, 36 were also injured.
Expansion for S-Bahn
In the course of the establishment of the S 8 S-Bahn line, the local tracks between Wuppertal-Vohwinkel and Wuppertal-Oberbarmen mentioned in the previous section were integrated into the new S-Bahn line (2525). On May 29, 1988 the new sections of the line from Wuppertal-Oberbarmen to the Linderhausen junction to the Witten-Schwelm railway line to the east and from Wuppertal-Vohwinkel to Düsseldorf Hbf to the west were opened.
Todays situation
The railway line runs partly parallel to the Wuppertaler Nordbahn built by the Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft , which ran north of the Wupper through the Bergisches Land and is now largely closed.
The S-Bahn line S 8 from Hagen via Düsseldorf to Mönchengladbach today uses sections of both routes, as well as the Witten – Schwelm railway that connects them . The S-Bahn line S 5 from Dortmund via Witten to Hagen (and further than S 8) runs along the entire route along the historical route.
Is due to construction or other restrictions, a driving operation only one track possible Wetter (Ruhr) or not, the traits are under less stringent conditions from Witten main station on the freight line to Wengern East and Ruhrtalbahn diverted to Hagen-porch.
Offer
In long-distance passenger transport, the route is operated every hour by InterCityExpress line 10 from Cologne (two hours from Bonn) via Hamm (Westf) and Hanover to Berlin with stops in Wuppertal and Hagen. Beside the subway more individual Intercity Expresse and every two hours alternating intercity trains of the lines 31 and 55 between Cologne and Dortmund, also with intermediate stops in Wuppertal and Hagen.
The regional express line Wupper-Express (RE 4) from Aachen via Mönchengladbach and Düsseldorf follows the course of the railway line from Wuppertal main station to Witten main station, where it takes a new line opened in 1988 between Witten and Dortmund via Bochum-Langendreer. The section between Witten and Dortmund is only used by the S 5 today.
Other local transport lines that use at least parts of the route are the Rhein-Münsterland-Express (RE 7) and Maas-Wupper-Express (RE 13) on the section between Wuppertal Hauptbahnhof and Hagen Hauptbahnhof, the Ruhr-Sieg-Express (RE 16 ) and the Ruhr-Lenne train (RB 40) between the main station and Hagen Witten central station, and the S-line S 7, the Müngstener , (on the place of tracks 1913/5) between the main station and Wuppertal Wuppertal-Oberbarmen.
See also
- Railway line Witten / Dortmund – Oberhausen / Duisburg
- Dortmund – Soest railway line
- Cologne – Duisburg railway line
- Duisburg – Dortmund railway line
- Dortmund – Hamm railway line
- List of local rail transport lines in North Rhine-Westphalia
literature
- Bernd Franco Hoffmann: The Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn. Through the valleys of Wupper, Ruhr and Volme ; Sutton-Verlag, Erfurt, 2015.
Web links
NRWbahnarchiv by André Joost:
- Description of route 2550 : Wuppertal ↔ Hagen
- Description of route 2801 : Hagen ↔ Dortmund
- Description of route 2525 : Wuppertal ↔ Schwelm (S-Bahn)
- Description of route 2701 : Wuppertal-Oberbarmen ↔ Schwelm (freight traffic only)
- Description of route 2811 : Abzw Rehsiepen ↔ Abzw Einhaus (freight traffic only)
further evidence:
- Information on rail traffic in the Bergisches Land (articles, reports, photos)
Individual evidence
- ↑ DB Netze - Infrastructure Register
- ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .
- ↑ Harkort, Friedrich : "Railways. (Railroads.) “ ( Memento of the original from March 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , in: Hermann - Zeitschrift von und für Westphalen, the land between Weser and Maas, issue No. 26, archived at the LWL (accessed on March 8, 2011)
- ↑ Harkort, Friedrich : "The Railway from Minden to Cöln" , published in the Internet portal Westphalian history of the LWL (accessed on March 8, 2011)
- ↑ Construction of the Bergisch-Märkische line (accessed on December 25, 2015)
- ↑ Difficult terrain above the Kruiner Tunnel (accessed December 25, 2015)
- ^ Hans Joachim Ritzau: Railway disasters in Germany. Splinters of German history . Vol. 1: Landsberg-Pürgen 1979, p. 87.
