Lower Ruhr Valley Railway
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| Route number (DB) : | 2185 (Kettwig – Mülheim-Styrum) 85 (Ruhrbrücke Abzw – Mülheim West) |
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| Course book section (DB) : | last 231a | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 14.7 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Top speed: | last 40 km / h | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Lower Ruhr Valley Railway is a former railway line in North Rhine-Westphalia . It was built by the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (BME) along the Ruhr through the southwest of the city of Mülheim an der Ruhr and connected Mülheim-Styrum on the Witten / Dortmund – Oberhausen / Duisburg railway with Essen-Kettwig on the Düsseldorf- Oberbilk – Essen copper rotation .
passenger traffic
Initially, from 1876, passenger traffic was carried out from Kettwig over the Kettwig railway bridge and the Ruhr bridge in Mülheim to the Mülheim BME station , which was later called Mülheim (Ruhr) station and is now called Mülheim (Ruhr) West . The passenger traffic was led to Styrum as early as 1909, because the connecting curve to Mülheim BME stood in the way of the expanding Friedrich Wilhelms-Hütte and the expansion of the Mülheim (Ruhr) (West) station.
The two Ruhr bridges were destroyed in the Second World War. As a result, passenger traffic could only be carried out from Kettwig in front of the bridge, later from the newly established Kettwig Stausee stop (below today's S-Bahn stop of the same name) in the direction of Mülheim. In Mülheim, passenger traffic was diverted to Speldorf via the Broich connecting curve. After the Mülheimer Brücke was rebuilt, both destinations (Styrum and Speldorf) were served by passenger traffic from 1954 until they were closed.
history
- January 24, 1876: BME Kettwig – Styrum approved
- March 6, 1876: Kettwig – Styrum freight traffic started
- March 15, 1876: Passenger traffic Kettwig – Ruhrbrücke Abzw started
- 1899: Second Kettwig – Broich track created
- 1909: Second Broich – Styrum track built
- December 10, 1909: Passenger traffic on the Ruhrbrücke Abwz – Styrum began
- 1945: Broich – Styrum bridge blown up
- April 10, 1945: Kettwig – Kettwig reservoir bridge blown up
- 1953: Kettwig passenger traffic resumed in front of the bridge – Kettwig reservoir
- May 23, 1954: Freight traffic from Broich – Styrum over single-track bridge resumed
- November 1, 1955: Kettwig Stausee – Styrum converted from a double-track main line to a single-track branch line
- 1954/1955/1958: Broich – Styrum passenger services resumed
- May 26, 1968: Passenger traffic between Kettwig Stausee and Styrum ceased
- September 1, 1968: Freight traffic from Kettwig Stausee – Saarn suspended
- October 10, 1973: Broich – Styrum closed
- October 10, 1973: Saarn – Broich converted into a station track
- 1978: Freight traffic Saarn – Broich stopped
- November 2nd, 1981: Saarn – Broich shut down
- February 3, 1982: Saarn – Broich dismantled
- 1992 Broich-Speldorf connecting track dismantled
Trivia
The Mülheim (Ruhr) brewery Ibing stop was named after the Ibing Willy Kraus brewery , which was one of the largest breweries in the city and was founded in 1863. Operations ended in 1968 after the company went bankrupt.
literature
- Friedhelm Stöters: The Ruhr Valley Railway from Kettwig to Mülheim an der Ruhr. Self-published by the author, Duisburg 1993.
- Martin Menke: The history of the Ruhr Valley Railway from Mülheim (Styrum) via Broich-Saarn-Mintard to Kettwig. 3. Edition. Self-published by Eisenbahnfreunde, Mülheim an der Ruhr 1999.
- Klaus Dattenberg: When Heisingen still had a train station. Memories of the railway from its beginnings in 1872 to the present day . Essen, Mining and Local History Museum Paulushof 2017.
Web links
NRWbahnarchiv by André Joost:
- Description of the former route 85 : Ruhrbrücke Abzw ↔ Mülheim (Ruhr) West
- Description of line 2185 : Kettwig ↔ Mülheim (Ruhr) -Styrum
further evidence:
- Günter Voss: The Ruhr Valley Railway in Kettwig
- The history of the Ruhr Valley Railway at the Eisenbahnfreunde Mülheim an der Ruhr
Individual evidence
- ↑ DB Netze - Infrastructure Register
- ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .