Mülheim-Speldorf – Troisdorf railway line
The Mülheim-Speldorf – Troisdorf line is a double-track, electrified main line in North Rhine-Westphalia . It is the main axis of freight traffic between Cologne and the Ruhr area and the Netherlands . It connects the Duisburg-Wedau marshalling yards (previously important, now closed and in the process of being demolished) and Gremberg (in Cologne).
history
The line was put into operation on November 18, 1874 by the Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft as a connection between the Ruhr area line and the right-hand Rhine line. It runs a few kilometers away parallel to the thirty years older Cologne – Duisburg railway line of the competing Cologne-Minden Railway Company , from which it was supposed to divert traffic. Since the route leads past the settlement centers, passenger traffic was discontinued in sections soon after the nationalization of both companies. With the exception of a few short sections, the route is now used exclusively for freight traffic.
At the level of Opladen station on the Gruiten – Cologne-Deutz line , the tracks were relocated to the east directly on the Gruiten - Cologne-Deutz line as part of the urban development of the city of Leverkusen . The new routes went into operation in December 2016.
In the post-war period, passenger traffic was only handled on the sections Mülheim-Speldorf - Düsseldorf-Rath (KBS 307, further to Düsseldorf main station ) and Hilden-Opladen (KBS 409). On December 6, 1971, passenger traffic between Duisburg-Wedau and Mülheim-Speldorf was stopped, and on September 23, 1983, passenger traffic from Duisburg-Entenfang to Düsseldorf-Rath station was stopped .
In December 2018, the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr, the responsible public transport authority, decided to cease operations on the Der Wedauer (RB 37) line, which runs between Duisburg Central Station and Duisburg- Entenfang . This was justified with the low number of passengers. As a replacement, the bus route 928 between Bissingheim and Duisburg city center has been expanded, which runs every half hour instead of every hour and every quarter of an hour during rush hour.
passenger traffic
The route between Duisburg-Wedau and Lintorf is used irregularly by museum trains on the way to the Angertalbahn . After the discontinuation of regional train line 37, there is no longer any regular passenger traffic on the route.
Alternate traffic
On the section Opladen - Hilden - as with the KBS 307 - passenger traffic was stopped on September 23, 1983. In the post-war period, passenger transport had mainly taken over battery-powered multiple units of the 515 series , but local trains with the 140 , 212 and 430 series were also to be found. A reactivation of local public transport is discussed again and again, but is almost impossible in 2010.
In the event of disruptions on the Cologne – Duisburg and Gruiten – Cologne-Deutz railway lines , passenger trains between Duisburg and Düsseldorf, between Düsseldorf and Opladen or Opladen and Cologne are occasionally diverted via the Troisdorf – Mülheim-Speldorf line. In the latter case, the Cologne-Mülheim passenger station cannot be approached.
Future planning
For a long time there has been a desire to resume regular passenger traffic on the railway line between Duisburg-Wedau and Düsseldorf-Rath. Along the western route of Ratingen, the districts of Lintorf (approx. 15,200 inhabitants), Tiefenbroich (approx. 6,500 inhabitants) and Ratingen-West (approx. 17,900 inhabitants) together have a demand potential of almost 40,000 people. According to the local transport plan of the responsible public transport authority , the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr , reactivation in passenger transport is currently not possible or very costly. The western route from Ratingen is so heavily used in freight traffic that it would have to be expanded to three tracks in order to expand the local rail network .
In order to increase the traffic value, the trains south of Düsseldorf-Rath should not, like the S 6, cross the western end of the Ruhr Valley Railway and the Cologne – Duisburg railway , but rather via Düsseldorf-Grafenberg , the existing connecting curve to the Düsseldorf – Elberfeld railway and the Düsseldorf stop -Flingern to Düsseldorf Central Station . The aim is to open up Düsseldorf-Grafenberg with a new stop at Düsseldorf-Schlüterstrasse . Due to changed safety regulations, which foresee a ban on people and goods traffic in long tunnels, this requires the construction of another tube to the 2053 meter long Staufenplatz tunnel. As a result, the investment costs rose from the original 25 million euros to at least 140 million euros, which means that the project in the integrated overall traffic planning is not eligible for funding in the short term.
A reactivation in passenger traffic is associated with problems, but is still being sought by various sides. To reduce costs, a guided tour from Düsseldorf-Rath via Rath Mitte to Düsseldorf Hbf is now being considered. Appropriate demonstration drives have already been carried out on the route for this purpose. The plans for reactivating the Ratinger western route in the local rail passenger traffic are to be pursued despite the discontinuation of the RB 37.
Freight transport
The railway line served and serves heavy freight traffic. In the northern area of the Düsseldorf-Rath train station there is a connection to Vallourec Germany , via which freight trains loaded with steel pipes are provided.
- Freight traffic on the Troisdorf – Mülheim-Speldorf railway line
Lime train with diesel locomotive of the railway and ports in Entenfang
Freight train with DB class 155 in Ratingen-Lintorf
Freightliner container train with Siemens ES64F4 in Düsseldorf-Rath
NIAG 3 in duck fishing
Web links
- Route info
- Course book 1944, Cologne – Düsseldorf
- Course book 1944, Düsseldorf – Dortmund
- Connection to V&M Deutschland GmbH, Düsseldorf-Rath
Individual evidence
- ↑ DB Netze - Infrastructure Register
- ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .
- ↑ a b Alternative bus concept for line RB 37 (draft resolution). Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr, November 19, 2018
- ↑ a b Sven Steinke: Reactivation of the Ratinger western route is very unlikely. In: zughalt.de. June 13, 2010, accessed January 14, 2018 .
- ↑ Local transport plan VRR 2012
- ↑ Rosali Kurtz Bach: Ratingen West route for commuting. WAZ, November 29, 2016, accessed January 14, 2018 .
- ↑ Norbert Kleeberg: Westbahn should start in 2019. RP Online, January 13, 2018, accessed January 14, 2018 .
- ↑ Westbahn demonstration run a complete success. City of Ratingen, September 29, 2017, accessed on January 14, 2018 (press release).