Geldern – Meerbeck railway line
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| Route number (DB) : | 2518 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 23.9 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Geldern – Meerbeck railway is an unfinished railway line in North Rhine-Westphalia that is over 23.5 kilometers long .
history
The line was to start from the Lower Rhine line at the Meerbeck junction near Utfort , via Repelen , past Kamp-Lintfort and Sevelen to Geldern and there merge into the Krefeld – Kleve line on the left side of the Rhine near Vernum . When completed, it would have been the direct continuation of the Oberhausen – Moers railway to Geldern and would have saved a detour via Trompet , Uerdingen , Krefeld and Kempen .
This route should serve to further develop the coal area on the left bank of the Rhine and as a strategic railway . Parts of the embankment, trough cuts and ramps for overpasses are still visible. The route of the line was mainly planned in embankments and troughs with underpasses and overpasses without crossing and the earthworks with bridges were largely finished and prepared for the double-track expansion. It was started before the First World War , but was never completed and remained in ruins. Until 1922 the Allies forbade completing the railway line; after that the Deutsche Reichsbahn was no longer interested in her.
Most of the route was reused. Today there is a glider airfield near Sevelen and a motocross area near Kamp-Lintfort, near the Eyller Berg . At Oermter Berg, the route crosses the Rheinberg – Moers – Hoerstgen-Sevelen railway . The remaining sections are partially designated as landscape protection areas.
At the height of Rheinkamp , near Utfort , the once planned track cross that was supposed to bridge the Lower Rhine route, near the Meerbeck junction to the Oberhausen – Moers railway line, there is an industrial area to the east.
Today it is cut through in the Niephauser Feld by the A 57 (Krefeld – Nijmegen) and near the Genend industrial park by the L 399 (Moers – Kamp-Lintfort). Some of the old underpasses and overpasses have since been demolished.
literature
- Ulli Tückmantel: Geldern Bridge should fall in 2008 . In: Rheinische Post . November 4, 2007 ( rp-online.de [accessed September 25, 2017]).
- Marco Büren: Dead route on flat land . In: Rheinische Post . March 27, 2014 ( rp-online.de [accessed September 25, 2017]).
- Hans-Paul Höpfner: Railways. Your story on the Lower Rhine . Mercator Verlag, Duisburg 1986, ISBN 3-87463-132-X .
Web links
- Line 2518 (Vernum - Moers, Abzw Meerbeck) in the NRWbahnarchiv by André Joost
- turntable-online.de to unfinished Moers-Geldern route
- brueckenweb.de Strategic Railway Moers – Geldern
- from Moers via Sevelen to Geldern
- Moers – Geldern regional line
- Entry by Claus Weber on the Baerl - Geldern railway line in the " KuLaDig " database of the Rhineland Regional Council
Individual evidence
- ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 8th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2011, ISBN 978-3-89494-140-6 .