Railway line Oberhausen-Osterfeld-Hamm

Oberhausen-Osterfeld-Hamm
Route number (DB) :	2250 (OB-Osterfeld – Hamm) 2248 (E-Dellwig Ost – Bottrop)
Course book section (DB) :	423 (OB-Osterfeld Süd-Gladbeck) 450.9 (Bottrop-GE-Buer)
Route length:	77 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Route class :	D4
Power system :	15 kV 16.7 Hz  ~
Top speed:	100 km / h
Dual track :	Continuous, except: Oberhausen Hochstraße – Bottrop Hbf Pbf
Legend Main line from Minden Line from Munster Lippe and Datteln-Hamm Canal 76.7 Hamm (Westf) Hbf 76.1 Hamm (Westf) Rbf Hvn Route to Warburg Route to Hagen Freight line from Hamm Gallberg 1.3 73.2 Hamm (Westf) Rbf Main line to Dortmund Freight route to Bönen Autobahn 0.0 71.5 Herringen (Abzw) 70.1 Pelkum (formerly the RAG- Bergwerk Ost connection ) 64.9 Rünthe ( Awanst ) 63.1 Bergkamen 57.8 Oberaden 57.0 Oberaden (old) 55.0 Horstmar (Abzw) Link to Lünen Prussia Line Lünen – Lünen Prussia Connection from Lünen Hbf 53.3 Lünen south Lünen port railway 48.3 Wil Bringing (Hp & Abzw) 45.4 Waltrop 38.8 Datteln ( Datteln power station ) 35.1 Recklinghausen-Suderwich 0.0 31.1 Recklinghausen East Connection to Recklinghausen Süd (0.7) 000 Hillen (formerly Awanst n. Blumenthal colliery) (0.8) 000 Hillen from / to Recklinghausen Hbf 30.0 Blumenthal (Abzw) Recklinghausen – Wanne-Eickel route former routes of RBH Logistics 24.9 Herten (Westf) 21.1 Westerholt Range of RBH Logistics Route from Haltern (up to here only freight traffic) Gelsenkirchen-Buer North Hp (confluence at the same level) 17.6 Gelsenkirchen-Buer Nord (PV until 1998) Gladbeck-Zweckel – GE-Buer Süd route Link from Gladbeck-Zweckel 12.5 Gladbeck West 8.1 Bottrop boy RBH Logistics routes 6.0 Bottrop Central Station Not (Bft) former line by Hugo Abzw (KWE) 5.6 Bottrop Hbf Gbf 4.5 Bottrop Hbf (former Inselbahnhof ) 4.1 (3.0) Bottrop central station Pbf Freight line to Oberhausen West Freight route from Wanne-Eickel (formerly CME) Freight line from Essen-Horl (formerly BME) (single-track connection from 1922) (1.4) Essen-Dellwig Büscherhof (Awanst) Essen-Frintrop – Prosper Levin route former route to Essen-Frintrop Duisburg – Dortmund route (0.0) Essen-Dellwig Ost Route to Essen-Borbeck 3.2 Bottrop Westf sand digging (Awanst) Oberhausen-Osterfeld Ost (Bft) 2.2 Bottrop-Vonderort 2.0 Oberhausen Hochstrasse ( Üst ) former route to Sterkrade (KWE) 0.0 Oberhausen-Osterfeld Route OB Osterfeld North – OB West -0.5 Oberhausen-Osterfeld West (Bft) Route to Oberhausen West Oberhausen Grafenbusch (Abzw) Route to Oberhausen Sterkrade or Hbf former route to Duisburg-Ruhrort (CME) Swell:

The Oberhausen-Osterfeld – Hamm railway line (also known as the northern line , Hamm – Osterfelder Bahn or Hertener Bahn ) is an approximately 77-kilometer-long, double-track and electrified main line on the northern edge of the Ruhr area . As a continuous flatland route, it has no tunnels . In its eastern and central part, it is currently only used for freight traffic , while local rail passenger transport also takes place on the western section .

The operating Deutsche Bahn (formerly Deutsche Bundesbahn ) has always referred to this route as the northern route . It was the northernmost stretch of the former Essen Federal Railway Directorate .

history

In order to relieve the almost no longer expandable existing railway network of the Ruhr area , especially in freight traffic , the Hamm-Osterfelder Bahn was initially built on a single track on its northern edge by the Prussian State Railways , taking into account the infrastructure already available from Gladbeck West station towards the west Opened May 1, 1905. It primarily served as a direct connection between the two large marshalling yards Hamm (Westf) and Osterfeld Süd (later: Oberhausen-Osterfeld) for long-running through freight trains with extensive bypassing of the Ruhr area as well as the connection of new coal mines to the railway network. Each of the stations was a connection or transfer station for one or more of more than fifteen collieries. The second track was added in 1912.

Passenger traffic was always poorly designed, despite several larger cities along the route, whose train stations, however, were sometimes located far away from the town centers due to the route's predominant purpose for freight traffic . Despite its dual track and mainline status, there was never scheduled long-distance passenger transport on it . The entire route was electrified in 1967. Passenger traffic in the Hamm (Westf) –Gelsenkirchen-Buer Nord section was discontinued on May 29, 1983.

Occasionally, however, the line between the Hamm (Westf) station and the Horstmar junction is used as a diversion route for passenger trains (RE, IC, ICE) on the Dortmund – Hamm line.

Route

The line begins in Oberhausen-Osterfeld station and ends in Hamm (Westf) Rbf with the merging of the former passenger track from the passenger station and the freight tracks at the west head (Bez Hde) of the marshalling yard. The signaling systems of the route are operated for the area from Oberhausen-Osterfeld up to and including the Herringen junction from the electronic signal box (ESTW) Of in Oberhausen-Osterfeld.

Operations from east to west

At the Herringen junction , a connecting track leads from the Hamm marshalling yard (Bez Hda) to the west. Shortly afterwards, the Pelkum and Bergkamen stations follow one after the other . The Oberaden station on the route consists of the two main tracks and four points for crossing over. There is a single-track connecting curve from the Horstmar junction to the Lünen Prussia train station . At Lünen Süd station there is a decommissioned drainage hill in the freight station that is still in use and the transfer station to the west to several industrial companies as well as a single-track connection to Lünen main station .

SBB class 482 multi-system locomotive in Recklinghausen-Suderwich

Waltrop station was completely shut down . The Datteln power plant is connected to the line at Datteln train station . The Recklinghausen-Suderwich station has also been closed. Recklinghausen Ost is a now little-used freight yard to which the former repair shop of the same name was connected. There are single-track connecting lines to Recklinghausen Hbf and Recklinghausen Süd (built in 1905 at the same time as the railway line itself). At the Blumenthal junction there is a single-track connection to Recklinghausen Hbf, this in the opposite direction. The Herten station was converted into an Awanst in 1993 and is now also closed. Westerholt station was the transfer station to the Ruhrkohle AG colliery and port railway and is rarely used.

The single-track line, built in 1968, ends at the Gelsenkirchen-Buer Nord station from the Marl Lippe junction ( Gelsenkirchen-Buer Nord – Marl Lippe railway line ). This is on the Wanne-Eickel-Hamburg railway line . The threading out is prepared for the double-track expansion towards Haltern . Today's S-Bahn stop on Haltern Track was put into operation in 1998 and replaces the stop at the old station building.

The Gladbeck West station is now the separation station for the S-Bahn in the direction of Haltern and regional traffic in the direction of Dorsten via the connecting curve to Zweckel on the Winterswijk-Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck railway line . To the north of the freight tracks with the disused drainage hill there is another transfer station to the Ruhrkohle AG colliery and port railway.

The Bottrop main station has been rebuilt several times since it was founded. In the area of ​​the main freight station, the line met the Emschertal Railway from Welver to Sterkrade of the former Royal Westphalian Railway Company , which had existed since 1879 ; this has been shut down since 1968 and was dismantled by 1983 (today partially colliery railway). A marshalling yard and a railway sleeper factory continued to belong to the main freight yard as facilities (now closed) . In the area of ​​the main station, lines branch off to Essen-Dellwig Ost (single-track) and via Abzw Gerschede and Essen-Frintrop (old) to Oberhausen West (mostly double-track); In the direction of Osterfeld, the line runs on a single track up to the Hochstraße transfer point . The section is used as planned by passenger trains and occasional freight trains. Most freight trains, however, run on the parallel Westphalian Emschertal Railway to Osterfeld station.

At the end of the line is the Oberhausen-Osterfeld station, one of the largest marshalling yards in the region, but its importance for passenger traffic is marginal. The Emschertal Railway from Dortmund to Duisburg-Ruhrort of the former Cologne-Minden Railway Company flows into the east head . From the Westkopf there are connections via a double-track freight train line to Oberhausen West and a double-track freight and passenger train line to the Grafenbusch junction, which then turns into a single-track freight train line to Oberhausen- Sterkrade with a connection to the Dutch line Oberhausen - Wesel  - Emmerich  - Arnhem  (NL) and a single-track passenger train route (route number 2272) to Oberhausen Hauptbahnhof divides.

service

passenger traffic

Long-distance passenger rail transport does not take place at all, but there are no longer any through-going passenger trains between Gelsenkirchen-Buer Nord and Oberhausen-Osterfeld Süd, even in local rail passenger transport , travelers always have to change trains in Gladbeck or Bottrop.

Today the following lines operate on this section of the route:

line	Line course
S 9	Haltern  - Gelsenkirchen-Buer North - Bottrop  - Essen-Dellwig East - Essen  - Wuppertal
RE 14	Borken  - Gladbeck West - Bottrop  - Essen-Dellwig East - Essen
RE 44	Bottrop - Oberhausen-Osterfeld Süd - Oberhausen -Duisburg -Moers
bold : Hamm-Osterfelder Bahn

Freight transport

Despite its decline, the entire length of the Hamm-Osterfelder Bahn is still important for rail freight transport. However, there was temporarily east of Gelsenkirchen-Buer Nord on weekends from Saturday afternoon until Monday morning operation tranquility . The reasons for the shutdown were the decline in freight traffic and the targeted savings in personnel costs for the signal boxes.

At the end of 2007, the new signaling technology with the Oberhausen-Osterfeld electronic signal box was put into operation in the first construction phase. With the further expansion stages, the route to the Herringen junction has been controlled from Oberhausen since the end of 2012. Since this modernization and the increase in freight traffic, the route has been continuously served again.

Planning

A concept of the passenger association PRO BAHN Nordrhein-Westfalen and the Verkehrsclub Deutschland zum Rhein-Ruhr-Express suggests that “this route [...] between Gelsenkirchen-Buer Nord and Recklinghausen [will be used again] by passenger trains. This will give Herten and Westerholt a local rail transport connection and Gladbeck, Gelsenkirchen-Buer and Recklinghausen an improved connection to the large cities in the Ruhr area and to the Rhine. "

In the course of the change in the frequency of the Rhein-Ruhr S-Bahn in 2019 , the S 9 S-Bahn line from Gelsenkirchen-Buer Nord should alternate via Marl Mitte to Haltern am See or via the passenger service reactivated connection on the Hertener Bahn to Recklinghausen Hauptbahnhof ( initially without the intermediate stops in Gelsenkirchen-Buer Nord, Westerholt and Herten). Due to a lack of train drivers, this extension towards Recklinghausen had to be postponed indefinitely. Until then, this branch ends in Bottrop Hauptbahnhof . ^[outdated]

Accidents

• In November 2008 a train accident occurred near the Recklinghausen-Suderwich district , in which two train drivers were seriously injured. A locomotive with around 25 wagons hit a shunting locomotive standing in the track.
• On October 26, 2013, two freight trains collided on a railway bridge near Gladbeck West station . As a result, the locomotives and several wagons derailed. A train driver was seriously injured and the route between Gladbeck West and Bottrop was completely closed for two weeks.

literature

• Günter Kraus: The development of the track network and the lines of the Essen directorate . In: Development of the railways in Germany, part 2 . Röhr-Verlag, Krefeld 1986, ISBN 3-88490-130-3 .
• Christian Hübschen, Helga Kreft-Kettermann: Geographical-regional history atlas of Westphalia. Subject area VII TRAFFIC. Double sheet rail freight transport . Map and booklet. Aschendorff, Münster (Westf) 1993, ISBN 3-402-06196-1 .
• Wolfgang Fiegenbaum, Wolfgang Klee: Farewell to the rails. Disused railway lines from 1980–1990 . transpress, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-613-71073-0 .
• Markus Meinold: At the northern edge of the area ... In: German Society for Railway History (Hrsg.): Railway history . Issue 12, 2005, pp. 28-37 .

Web links

NRWbahnarchiv by André Joost:

• Description of route 2250 : Oberhausen-Osterfeld Süd ↔ Hamm (Westf)
• Description of the connection route 2900 : Lünen South ↔ Lünen
• Description of the connection route 2901 : Prussia ↔ Horstmar
• Description of the connection route 2222 : Recklinghausen Süd ↔ Recklinghausen Ost
• Description of the connection route 2223 : Blumenthal ↔ Recklinghausen Hbf
• Description of the connection route 2224 : Recklinghausen Ost ↔ Recklinghausen Hbf
• Description of the connection route 2251 : Gladbeck-Zweckel Abzw ↔ Gladbeck West
• Description of route 2248 : Bottrop ↔ Essen-Dellwig Ost

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DB Netze - Infrastructure Register
2. ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .
3. ↑ Resolution proposal to change the frequency of the S-Bahn. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr , May 7, 2015, archived from the original on May 24, 2015 ; accessed on January 5, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Appendices 1–3 to the draft resolution to change the speed of the S-Bahn. (PDF) Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr, May 7, 2015, accessed on May 23, 2015 . 
5. ↑ S9 (special concept). Abellio, accessed May 29, 2020 . 
6. ↑ Thomas Bartel, Randolf Leyk, Oliver Prause: Changeover for rail commuters: New timetable from December 15 - VRR wants to reduce prices and is giving citizens a gift. In: 24vest.de. December 15, 2019, accessed January 5, 2020 . 
7. ^ Investigation report, collision, November 25, 2008, Recklinghausen Ost. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Federal Railway Authority , February 27, 2012, archived from the original on April 27, 2014 ; accessed on January 5, 2020 . 
8. ^ Georg Meinert: Chaos after a collision on the railway line in Gladbeck. In: WAZ.de. October 26, 2013, accessed November 10, 2013 . 
9. ^ Investigation report, train collision, October 26, 2013, Gladbeck West. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Federal Railway Authority, November 28, 2014, archived from the original on September 24, 2015 ; accessed on January 5, 2020 .