Essen – Gelsenkirchen railway line
| Essen – Gelsenkirchen | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Route number (DB) : | 2163 (Essen – Essen Kray Nord) 2168 (Essen-Kray Nord – Gelsenkirchen) 2230 (GE-Hessler – Wanne-Eickel) 2234 (GE-Rotthausen – GE Schalke Süd) 2237 (GE-Rotthausen – Gelsenkirchen) |
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| Course book section (DB) : | 425, 450.2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 10.1 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route class : | D4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Power system : | 15 kV 16.7 Hz ~ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Top speed: | 110 km / h | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dual track : | Essen – Gelsenkirchen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Essen – Gelsenkirchen railway line is a continuous double-track and electrified main railway line in the central Ruhr area . Today it runs from Essen main station via Essen-Kray Nord station to Gelsenkirchen main station .
history
Between 1866 and 1874 the Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (RhE) built its own Ruhr area line from Osterath on the left-hand lower Rhine to the Dortmund RhE station , in competition with the Witten / Dortmund – Oberhausen / Duisburg line of the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (BME), built 1860–62, and the Duisburg – Dortmund line of the Cologne-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (CME) , which was completed in 1848 and runs a little further north .
The line to "Wattenscheid RhE" (later Gelsenkirchen-Wattenscheid ) had been in operation since 1868 , the rest of the line was not to be opened until six years later. During the construction of the line, a branch line to the common train station of the CME and BME was built in Duisburg in 1870 (today Duisburg main station ) in order to be more competitive.
Kray - Gelsenkirchen
For the same motivation, the RhE had a branch line branching off to the north from its Ruhr area line in "Bahnhof Kray" (today Essen-Kray Nord station ). This was opened for freight traffic on February 13, 1872, and passenger traffic followed on June 1, 1872 . The line ended in the "Bahnhof Gelsenkirchen RhE" south of the Cöln-Mindener railway line Duisburg-Dortmund , not even half a kilometer from the "Bahnhof Gelsenkirchen CME".
In 1876 a passenger train stop was inaugurated halfway near the Dahlbusch colliery , which was only expanded into a train station with goods handling in 1895 . The station has been renamed several times to this day, the first time in 1898 in "Bahnhof Dahlbusch-Rotthausen", in 1907 in "Bahnhof Rotthausen (Essen district)" and finally in 1924 in Gelsenkirchen-Rotthausen station .
After the nationalization of all (nominally) private railway companies at the end of the 19th century, the "Royal Railway Directorates of the Prussian State Railways " (PSE) began to dismantle or merge superfluous or redundant railway systems, on the one hand, and to create new connecting routes between the individual lines of the former railway companies, on the other to build.
For this reason, the Rhenish train station in Gelsenkirchen was closed in 1904 and all traffic was relocated to the Cöln-Mindener train station, which was extensively rebuilt on this occasion and then elevated to Gelsenkirchen main station in 1907 . In order to be able to leave the station without crossings, an additional connection to Rotthausen was created (VzG route number 2237), which crosses under the Cöln-Minden main route at the level of the old freight route (today Rotthauser Str. ). By 1908, the entire line was expanded to two-track to Kray Nord.
Rotthausen - Schalke / Gelsenkirchen - Hessler
Just over half a year after the Kray – Gelsenkirchen line was completed, on September 18, 1872, together with the “Bahnhof Schalke RhE”, the RhE opened a siding to the Wilhelmine Victoria mine in the “Heßler district”. Since this crossed the important Cöln-Minden trunk line west of Gelsenkirchen, after the nationalization the station and siding were shut down after less than twenty years of operation at the end of the 1880s, but the former reopened in 1893 as "Schalke Süd station" (from 1907 then "Gelsenkirchen-Schalke Süd").
The siding has now been expanded from Gelsenkirchen to a regular freight line which, from April 1, 1897, established the connection to the "Heßler station" on the Emschertal Railway in Brandenburg . After the line was expanded to double tracks in 1898, initially between “Heßler” and “Schalke Süd” and two years later to Gelsenkirchen, it was also used for passenger transport from May 1, 1902.
On September 12, 1903, freight traffic was resumed on the original route between " Bahnhof (Dahlbusch-) Rotthausen " and "Bahnhof Schalke Süd". In the course of the renovation of the Gelsenkirchen train station , the section was re-routed free of intersections by December 1, 1908. Regardless of this, freight traffic was finally stopped on May 28, 1967 and the section was completely shut down on June 1, 1969 and subsequently dismantled; in any case, it only acted as a direct rail connection from Essen, bypassing the Gelsenkirchen main station.
Passenger traffic between “Gelsenkirchen Hauptbahnhof” and “Bahnhof Gelsenkirchen-Hessler” had been stopped as early as 1933; after the Second World War, from May 4, 1947 to May 8, 1948, there was only a brief resurgence. In the 1970s, the second track was dismantled and the line was converted into a branch line on September 30, 1979 , which is only used with two trips per weekday to deliver to a car dealership in Essen-Katernberg.
Kray - tub
On March 25, 1875, the RhE opened another branch line from Kray, this was the longest with a length of 9 km and led almost straight to the "Wanne CME station" (today Wanne-Eickel main station ). Like the line to Schalke, this was only ever used for freight traffic and was closed again on August 1, 1890 after just 15 years of use.
After the closure, the line listed under route number 2209 was continued to be used as a colliery track, part of which was later added to the Gelsenkirchen – Wanne-Eickel freight line (route number 2231). The route, which is no longer used by rail, but has been paved as a cycle path since 2012, is still clearly visible today, the part still in use is the southern branch of the Gelsenkirchen – Wanne-Eickel connection, which splits into two from the Schalker Verein blast furnace in Bulmke-Hüllen Dividing branches.
Food - Kray Nord
As a southern extension of the rebuilt line from Gelsenkirchen, the "Royal Railway Directorate Essen" then branched off the Essen Hbf – Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck railway line (via Stoppenberg and Katernberg-Nord) on May 1, 1905, and took an initially single-track connection from Essen Central Station to the Frillendorf branch “In operation.
In the following years, this was built parallel to the Rheinische Bahn to the "Kray Nord station", which was renamed after the Kray Süd station on the Essen – Wattenscheid – Bochum line began operations in 1896 . Since July 16, 1914, a double-track line from the main train station to Kray Nord has been available to passenger traffic.
development
There were over 30 years between the construction of the two branches of the route, and both were originally only intended to supplement the Rhenish route. Regardless of this, they have increasingly surpassed this in importance, whereas the Rhenish route increasingly lost importance due to its unfavorable location parallel between the Cöln-Mindener and Brandenburg route.
The two connecting lines became a separate main line between two important main train stations. After the Second World War, the line was expanded and electrified until May 27, 1962.
Between 1972 and 1974, the east head of Essen main station was re-routed as part of the expansion of the Rhein-Ruhr S-Bahn , the tracks of the 1970 abandoned railway line via Stoppenberg to Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck were removed and a level-free extension from both the S-Bahn Tracks created on the south side of the station as well as from the head tracks on the north side to the route towards Essen-Kray Nord.
Todays situation
The Rhenish Ruhr area line, along with most of the branch lines, has been largely closed or degraded to train station and sidings. The connecting line from Gelsenkirchen to Gelsenkirchen-Hessler is only used to service the Essen-Katernberg Nord junction on the former Emschertalbahn in Brandenburg , which no longer has any other connection to the railway network.
The connecting route between Essen and Gelsenkirchen, on the other hand, is used by almost the entire range of passenger traffic, with the S-Bahn line S2 only stopping once an hour at the intermediate stations at the Essen-Kray Nord train station and at the GE-Rotthausen stop . Before S-Bahn traffic began here in September 1991, these stations were served by local trains from Essen – Haltern (–Münster).
offer
In long - distance passenger rail traffic , the route is used by two intercity lines and the Flixtrain , plus two late-evening ICE trains (Munich – Münster and Hamburg – Cologne) and a pair of ICE trains between Münster and Stuttgart:
| line | Train run | Turn order |
|---|---|---|
| ICE 31 | Hamburg-Altona - Hamburg Dammtor - Hamburg Hbf - Hamburg-Harburg - Bremen - Diepholz - Osnabrück - Münster - Gelsenkirchen - Essen - Duisburg - Düsseldorf - Cologne | Indent |
| ICE 42 | ( Munich - Augsburg - Ulm -) Stuttgart - Mannheim - Frankfurt Airport - Cologne - Düsseldorf - Essen - Gelsenkirchen - Münster | Indent |
| ICE 47 | Münster - Recklinghausen - Wanne-Eickel - Gelsenkirchen - Essen - Duisburg - Düsseldorf - Cologne Exhibition Center / Deutz - Frankfurt Airport - Mannheim - Stuttgart | a pair of trains |
| IC 26 | ( Rostock / Flensburg -) Hamburg - Osnabrück - Münster - Gelsenkirchen - Essen - Duisburg - Düsseldorf - Cologne | single trains (Fri / Sun) |
| FLX 20 | Hamburg-Altona - Hamburg - Osnabrück - Munster - Gelsenkirchen - Essen - Duisburg - Düsseldorf - Cologne | 1 or 2 pairs of trains |
In local rail passenger transport , the route is served by the following Regional Express and S-Bahn lines on behalf of the VRR association :
| line | Train run | Turn order |
|---|---|---|
| RE 2 |
Rhein-Haard-Express : Osnabrück - Münster - Dülmen - Haltern - Recklinghausen - Wanne-Eickel - Gelsenkirchen - Essen - Duisburg - Düsseldorf |
Hourly |
| RE 42 |
Niers-Haard-Express : Münster - Dülmen - Haltern - Recklinghausen - Wanne-Eickel - Gelsenkirchen - Essen - Duisburg - Krefeld - Viersen - Mönchengladbach |
Hourly; until dinner every half hour |
| S 2 | Dortmund - Herne - Wanne-Eickel - Gelsenkirchen - Gelsenkirchen-Rotthausen - Essen-Kray North - Essen | Hourly |
Tariff
On local and regional trains, only the network tariff applies to journeys within the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr (VRR). For trips beyond the network boundaries, transitional tariffs apply to the neighboring transport communities as well as the NRW tariff .
For journeys on long-distance trains, Deutsche Bahn AG tickets must also be purchased within the VRR , with a surcharge (IC) or a special tariff (ICE / Flix).
See also
Web links
NRWbahnarchiv by André Joost:
- Description of route 2163 : Essen Hbf ↔ Essen-Kray Nord (PSE)
- Description of route 2168 : Essen-Kray Nord ↔ Gelsenkirchen Hbf (RhE)
- Description of route 2209 : Essen-Kray Nord ↔ Wanne-Eickel Hbf (RhE)
- Description of route 2230 : Gelsenkirchen-Hessler ↔ Wanne-Eickel Hbf (PSE)
- Description of route 2234 : Gelsenkirchen-Rotthausen ↔ Gelsenkirchen-Schalke Süd (RhE)
- Description of route 2237 : Gelsenkirchen-Rotthausen ↔ Gelsenkirchen Hbf (PSE)
Individual evidence
- ↑ DB Netze - Infrastructure Register
- ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .