Lennep – Hasten railway line
| Lennep-Hasten | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Route number (DB) : | 2705 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course book section (DB) : | 458 (Remscheid-Lennep-Remscheid) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 9.2 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route class : | D4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Top speed: | 70 or 90 km / h | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dual track : | Remscheid-Lennep-Remscheid | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Lennep – Hasten line was a branch line in Remscheid , North Rhine-Westphalia . Passenger traffic was discontinued from today's Remscheid main station to Hasten at the end of 1918, after which the line was used for freight traffic until 1988 and was officially closed on December 31, 1990.
The section from Lennep to Remscheid Hauptbahnhof is still used today and is part of the railway line between Wuppertal-Oberbarmen and Solingen .
history
In 1883 the branch line from Lennep to Remscheid via Vieringhausen to Hasten was extended. Passenger traffic began on September 1, 1883 , together with rail mail . At the end of 1918, it was temporarily suspended due to a lack of coal, wagons and locomotives and, for varying reasons, it was not resumed until the official suspension of passenger traffic for the winter timetable 1922/1923. Passenger traffic on a direct line to the city center has been handled by trams of the Remscheid public transport company since 1893 . The public transport company has been using buses since the tram was shut down in April 1969. After the cessation of passenger traffic by the railway, the route was used by freight trains until 1988 , with the exception of a few special trains. Between 1918 and 1928, the rail mail was carried in a locked compartment of the freight train escort car, then back on the road. The section at the end of the line between Vieringhausen and Hasten was shut down on December 22, 1986, the section between Remscheid and Vieringhausen followed on May 20, 1988. On the occasion of the plane crash in Remscheid , which took place right next to the line , the line was used by railway service vehicles in December 1988. After the last use of a track measuring train on September 14, 1990, the line was officially closed on December 31, 1990.
The dismantling of the line began in 1993 and was almost completed in 1996. After the tracks had been dismantled, an asphalt bike and hiking trail was opened on 23 September 2006 on the route between Remscheid Central Station and the Remscheid district of Hasten as part of the Regionale 2006 , which visitors can see under the name Trasse des Werkzeugs. Aspects of tool and metal processing mediated, some of which are presented artistically. The cost was two million euros and the route is around four kilometers. The route begins at the main train station.
Operating points
Remscheid-Vieringhausen
The station area extended temporarily on both sides of the Schüttendelle level crossing . In Vieringhausen, during the First World War and shortly afterwards, food and coal were reloaded onto the tram crossing here for onward transport to the city center. The freight handling facility , which has been rebuilt and expanded several times, will be used privately after the route is closed.
Remscheid-Hasten
For the opening of the line, Hasten received a slated reception building with waiting rooms and a station restoration in half-timbered construction . There was also a goods shed and several parking and loading tracks . There were no facilities for supplying locomotives, but there was a weighbridge . Buildings and tracks had to be expanded after just a few years. During the First World War and for a short time afterwards, there was a light rail connection with a 600 millimeter gauge from the Hasten station to the Richard Lindenberg bell steel works on Hammesberger Strasse, a few hundred meters away , which was operated at times by a company-owned steam locomotive.
After the connection was closed in 1986, the tracks were removed from the mid-1990s, and the railway's operating buildings were dismantled and demolished from 2005. Mainly retail companies have settled on the former railway site. It is planned to build a local supply center here.
literature
- Bernd Franco Hoffmann: The Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn. Through the valleys of Wupper, Ruhr and Volme ; Sutton-Verlag, Erfurt, 2015, ISBN 978-3954005802 .
- Bernd Franco Hoffmann: Disused railway lines in the Bergisches Land. Sutton-Verlag, Erfurt April 2013, ISBN 978-3-95400-147-7 .
- Zeno Pillmann, Armin Schürings: From Remscheid Hbf to Hasten. The branch line to the branch. Astrid Kaiß publishing house, Leichlingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-9809357-5-3 .
- Eisenbahnfreunde Remscheid eV: Railways in Remscheid. Martina Galunder-Verlag, Nümbrecht 2005. ISBN 3-89909-060-8 .
- Kurt Kaiß: 100 years of the Solingen – Remscheid railway, building a bridge at Müngsten. Astrid Kaiß Verlag, Leichlingen 1997, ISBN 3-9806103-5-7
Web links
- Description of route 2705 in the NRWbahnarchiv by André Joost
- Railways in Remscheid at Bahnen-Wuppertal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ DB Netze - Infrastructure Register
- ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .
- ↑ Pillmann, pp. 86-87
- ↑ Pillmann, p. 85
- ↑ RP Online: When there was still a train going to Hasten ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Accessed March 26, 2010
- ↑ Pillmann, p. 90
- ↑ Kurt Kaiß: 100 Years of the Solingen-Remscheid Railway , 1997
- ↑ RP Online: Building a bridge for the route ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Accessed March 26, 2010
- ↑ Geodata portal of the city of Remscheid: Flyer (PDF) ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Accessed March 26, 2010
- ↑ Michael Karutz: Expert opinion on the realization of a local supply center in Remscheid-Hasten on the area of the former train station ( Memento of the original from October 22, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) 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. (accessed on March 26, 2010)
