Homberg – Moers railway line
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| Route number : | ex 24 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course book range : | ex 157s | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | approx. 5.7 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Homberg - Moers railway was a railway line in the Moers district that connected the district town of Moers with Scherpenberg, Essenberg and Homberg .
course
The single-track branch line ran from the old Moers train station to the lifting tower in Homberg. It ran along Moers-Homberger Aktienstraße (today: Moerser Straße or Homberger Straße). The track was between Homberg and Essenberg in the middle of the street, from Essenberg to Moers on the side of the road. In Moers there was a connection with the Moers KE station of the Krefeld Railway Company , in Homberg the line was connected to the Homberg - Krefeld - Mönchengladbach line of the Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company . The Moers train station was south of the line at the gates of the city.
history
In order to connect the city of Moers to the railway network, the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft was commissioned to build and operate a line between the two cities. The approximately six kilometer long connection went into operation on January 1, 1883. The company was nationalized in the meantime, so that the management of the operation was incumbent on the Prussian State Railways . The 1897 timetable provided for seven pairs of trains a day. An additional morning train ran from Moers to Homberg on weekdays. The construction of the Lower Rhine route from Rheinhausen via Moers and Xanten to Kleve cut the route at its western end. The Moers station was new in its present location, the old station was abandoned and built a connecting curve between the old and the new station.
On August 7, 1906, the district of Moers and the cities of Moers and Homberg agreed to build a tram between the two places. On June 29, 1908, the Moers - Homberg GmbH tram was entered in the commercial register. The tram should follow the same route as the branch line. Operations on the branch line ceased on September 30, 1908. Since the previously built meter-gauge tram route was not yet fully completed, steam trains were still commuting from October 1, 1908 until the start of electrical operation on December 11, 1908. The depot for the tram was built on the site of the old Moers train station . The operation was stopped on May 16, 1953 and replaced by trolleybuses . These served the route until September 18, 1968.
Web links
- André Joost: Route archive 24 - Homberg - Moers. In: NRWbahnarchiv. Retrieved January 27, 2016 .
- Homberg - Moers (old). Retrieved January 27, 2016 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .
- ↑ Route map Homberg - Moers. (JPG; 195 KiB) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 27, 2016 ; accessed on January 27, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b stefan p .: My little Moers series (part 1): The first state train station in Moers. In: Drehscheibe-online.de. May 4, 2011, accessed January 27, 2016 .
- ↑ Dieter Höltge, Michael Kochems: Tram and light rail in Germany. Volume 9: Lower Rhine without Duisburg . EK-Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau 2004, ISBN 3-88255-390-1 , p. 309-315 .
