Haan-Gruiten – Cologne-Deutz railway line
| Haan-Gruiten-Cologne-Deutz | |
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 Overview map for section 2730 Haan-Gruiten – Cologne-Neurather Ring
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| Route number (DB) : | 2731 (Linden – Haan-Gruiten) 2730 (Haan-Gruiten – Köln Neurather Ring) 2652/9 (Köln Neurather Ring – Köln-Mülheim) 2660 (Köln-Mülheim – Köln-Deutz) |
| Course book section (DB) : | 455 |
| Route length: | 35 km |
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) |
| Route class : | D4 |
| Power system : | 15 kV 16.7 Hz ~ |
| Top speed: | 160 km / h |
| Dual track : | (continuous) |
The Haan-Gruiten – Cologne-Deutz railway is one of the most important and busiest railway lines in Germany . It is part of the southern main axis of long-distance and local rail passenger transport between Wuppertal and Cologne , u. a. used by Intercity-Express , Intercity , Regional-Express and Regionalbahn .
The line is classified as a main line and has overhead contact lines throughout . The last single-track section between Cologne-Mülheim station and Cologne Messe / Deutz station (deep) is currently being expanded to double-track like the rest of the line .
history
The line was built by the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn (BME) after the takeover of the Düsseldorf-Elberfelder Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft as a branch of their Düsseldorf-Elberfeld line. It was intended to serve as a connection between its main network in the southern and central Ruhr area to the Cologne railway node, where the Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (RhE) and the Cologne-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (CME) were already present.
The BME started the construction of its new lines in the Haan-Gruiten station , today the line is already threading out of the line from Wuppertal almost two kilometers beforehand at the Linden branch . The first section of the route straight south via Ohligs-Wald (later Ohligs and Solingen-Ohligs, now Solingen Hauptbahnhof ) to Opladen was opened on September 25, 1867.
Since April 8, 1868, the line to Mülheim (Rhein) BME station was in operation, which was built in the immediate vicinity to the east of the already existing Mülheim (Rhein) CME station at Wiener Platz . The route used to run straight through the city center of Mülheim, almost identical to the current route of line 4 of the Cologne city railway (see also railway in Cologne-Mülheim ).
After crossing the Cologne-Minden route, the BME continued to build its route in the immediate vicinity of the Rhine and on February 1, 1872 opened passenger services to Deutz BME station, a temporary terminus north of Deutz CME station . Around 1878 the line was even connected to Cologne Central Station via the line of the Cöln-Mindener Railway and its Rhine bridge. However, this was discontinued after a short time due to high fees. In March 1881, the line that had previously ended outside Deutz was extended by 800 meters to the Deutz-Cologne ship bridge, the Schiffbrücke station, and opened on September 20, 1882.
In 1909 the line was relocated due to the risk of flooding or lack of space in downtown Mülheim and ran parallel to the Rhenish line through the new Mülheim / Rhein (-Buchheim) station (formerly Mülheim (Rhein) RhE, now Cologne-Mülheim ).
On August 8, 1949, a serious accident occurred at a railroad crossing in Schlebusch : A truck carrying holiday children tried to cross the railroad crossing, although the barriers were already closing. They were also closed too late. The D 99 registered the truck. 18 people died and 12 were also injured.
Todays situation
The two Deutz train stations together now form a tower train station , the Cologne Messe / Deutz train station . Even if they look like a train station for passengers, they are still separate operating points.
The Bergisch-Märkischen Bahnhof became the Köln Messe / Deutz (deep) station (abbreviation in the KKDT directory of operations ), and the Köln-Mindener Bahnhof became the Köln Messe / Deutz station (KKDZ).
The S-Bahn platform, which was built in 1989 as part of the construction of the separate railway line, is also an independent operating point called Cologne Messe / Deutz Haltpunkt (KKDZB) and at the same time part of the station of Cologne Central Station .
At the beginning of 2004, the plan was to begin the double-track expansion of the 4 km long section between Cologne-Mülheim and Messe / Deutz in 2004. Completion should take place at the end of 2006. To this end, three bridges were to be expanded and four overpasses built.
At the end of 2009, the second track was put into operation on the last 1 km long section between Cologne-Deutz and the Gummersbacher Strasse junction. The loop between the branch and Cologne-Mülheim is a total of 5 km long and is run under the DB network route number 2660.
In the course of the relocation of the Troisdorf – Mülheim-Speldorf freight line to the east , the tracks at Opladen station will be swiveled eastwards directly to the Haan-Gruiten - Cologne-Deutz line, which will take place as part of the urban development of the city of Leverkusen . The station building in Opladen, built in 1969, was demolished in summer 2015 for this purpose. The new routes were put into operation in December 2016.
Offer
Local rail transport
Since the introduction of the integral clock timetable ( NRW-Takt ) in 1998, the route from the Linden junction to Cologne-Mülheim has been used by Regional Express and Regionalbahn , from there they follow the Cologne-Minden route to Cologne Messe / Deutz (high) .
On its way from Krefeld main station to Rheine via Cologne main station and the Hamm (Westf) station, the Regional-Express Rhein-Münsterland-Express (RE 7) serves the train stations Cologne Messe / Deutz , Opladen and Solingen main station every hour .
The regional trains Rhein-Wupper-Bahn (RB 48) stop at all stations and stops the track and run daily from 5 to 20 pm in the hour between Bahnhof Wuppertal-Oberbarmen and Bonn-Mehlem . In addition, there are hourly trips from Wuppertal Oberbarmen to Cologne main station, in rush hour to Bonn main station, so that this section of the route runs approximately 30 minutes. After 8 p.m. there is an hourly service between Wuppertal and Cologne as well as between Cologne and Bonn. However, these trips are not linked to each other and each end in Köln Hbf.
Long-distance passenger rail transport
The route is used hourly or every two hours by Intercity-Express and Intercity of various lines from Hamm (Westphalia) or Dortmund main station via Wuppertal main station to Cologne and onwards towards Bonn or Rhine / Main via the new high-speed line. In order to facilitate the access to the high-speed line, the previously single-track section between Cologne-Mülheim and Cologne Messe / Deutz (deep) has been expanded to double-track in recent years.
According to the schedule, the situation occurs several times a day that the two partial trains of the Intercity Express line 10 from Berlin, after their wing at the Hamm (Westphalia) station, travel over different routes to Cologne-Mülheim (without stopping), and the one train via Duisburg Hauptbahnhof and Düsseldorf Hauptbahnhof (Cologne-Mindener route), the other in a 19-minute shorter journey time via Wuppertal (Bergisch-Märkische route). On the last section from Cologne-Mülheim, the two trains swap routes: the train via Duisburg uses the Bergisch-Märkische route to the Cologne Messe / Deutz underground station, the train via Wuppertal uses the Cologne-Minden route to the high station. From the underground station it goes on to Cologne / Bonn Airport station , from the high station to Cologne main station, individual trains run to Bonn main station .
Tariff
For journeys between Haan-Gruiten and Solingen Hauptbahnhof, the tariff of the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr (VRR) applies, for journeys between Solingen and Cologne the network tariff of the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg (VRS) applies . There are also transition tariffs between the two network areas, and the state-wide NRW tariff applies.
literature
- Bernd Franco Hoffmann: The Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn. Through the valleys of Wupper, Ruhr and Volme. Sutton-Verlag, Erfurt 2015, ISBN 978-3-95400-580-2 .
Web links
NRWbahnarchiv by André Joost:
- Description of route 2730 : Gruiten ↔ Strw Cologne Neurather Ring
- Description of the route 2731 : Gruiten ↔ Abzw Linden
- Description of route 2652 : Cologne-Deutz (high) → Strw Cologne Neurather Ring
- Description of route 2659 : Strw Köln Neurather Ring → Köln-Deutz (high)
- Description of route 2660 : Cologne-Mülheim ↔ Cologne-Deutz (deep)
further evidence:
Individual evidence
- ↑ DB Netze - Infrastructure Register
- ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .
- ↑ Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung, 1887 No. 38, Railway facilities on the Deutz Rheinufer online
- ↑ Hans-Joachim Ritzau, Jürgen Höstel: The catastrophe scenes of the present = railway accidents in Germany, Vol. 2. Pürgen 1983. ISBN 3-921304-50-4 , p. 29.
- ↑ Memorial stone at the Schlebusch forest cemetery
- ^ Announcement expansion Cologne – Mülheim . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International , issue 2/2004, ISSN 1421-2811 , p. 52.
- ↑ Electrical operation at Deutsche Bahn in 2009 . In: Elektro Bahnen , Volume 108 (2010), Issue 1–2, p. 10.
- ↑ Local information on the demolition of the station