Mülheim-Heißen – Oberhausen-Osterfeld Nord railway line

Mülheim-Heißen-Oberhausen-Osterfeld North
Route number :	2182 Mülheim-Heißen-Schönebeck 2280 (Essen West–) Schönebeck – Frintrop 2261 Frintrop – OB-Osterfeld Nord
Course book section (DB) :	423, 450.9
Route length:	10 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system :	15 kV 16.7 Hz  ~
Top speed:	80 km / h
Legend Freight line from Bottrop Nord (formerly RhE) 0.0 Oberhausen- Osterfeld Nord (formerly Rh Bf) Duisburg-Ruhrort – Bottrop Süd line (formerly CME) Freight line to Oberhausen West (formerly RhE) Emscher Rhine-Herne Canal Freight line from Oberhausen West 1.7 4.3 Osterfeld (old) (Abzw) 4.5 Food frintrop (old) 6.7 Essen-Frintrop Fbn (Abzw) Freight route to Bottrop south S-Bahn line from Bottrop Hbf 7.4 Essen-Dellwig Ost Edo (Abzw) Main line Duisburg – Dortmund (formerly CME) 7.8 Essen-Dellwig Ost (formerly Hp) 8.0 Essen-Dellwig Ost (Üst) (with Hp to Bf) 9.1 Essen- Gerschede 10.3 Essen-Borbeck (Hp, formerly Bf) former connection route to Essen-Altendorf 1.0 11.5 Schönebeck (Abzw) 11.6 Essen-Borbeck South former route from Essen-Altendorf (formerly RhE) Station track (formerly connecting line) Main line from Mülheim Hbf (formerly BME) S-Bahn line from Mülheim Hbf 13.0 Essen-Frohnhausen (without stopping) 14.1 Food west Main line to Essen Hbf (formerly BME) former route from Altendorf (Ruhr) (formerly RhE) 0.0 00.0 Mülheim (Ruhr) - Heißen (Bft, formerly Bf) former route to Mülheim Hbf (formerly RhE) Swell:

The railway line Mülheim-Heißen – Oberhausen-Osterfeld Nord is a formerly continuous railway line in the western Ruhr area from Heißen (now part of Mülheim an der Ruhr ) to Osterfeld (now part of Oberhausen ).

After several renovations, the route is now only used in two sections and then in connection with other routes.

history

The railway line was built by the Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft as a connection between their stations at Heißen on their Ruhr area line Osterath-Dortmund and Osterfeld RhE (today Oberhausen-Osterfeld Nord) on their North Sea line from Duisburg to Quakenbrück and on December 1, 1872 initially only for freight traffic from Heissen put into operation until Frintrop . On July 1, 1879, the entire line to Osterfeld Nord was opened for passenger traffic.

Shutdown

The Heißen – Osterfeld Nord route once connected the Duisburg – Bottrop Nord route (left in the picture) with the Duisburg – Bottrop Süd route (right in the picture) on its own bridge (Rhine-Herne Canal, Emscher) . In the Gleisdreieck there was a connection to the GHH , the bridge piers of which can be seen in the center of the picture.

During the Second World War , the bridges over the Emscher and the Rhine-Herne Canal were blown up on March 27, 1945, and passenger traffic was stopped on the entire route. A bridge foundation of the bridge over the Rhine-Herne Canal is still visible today.

The section between Osterfeld (old) and Osterfeld Nord was not put back into operation and was dismantled on March 16, 1967, the former route can only be guessed at even on aerial photos.

After the Second World War between 1946 and 1948, passenger trains ran again between Mülheim-Heißen and Schönebeck , the last freight train ran on May 28, 1967, and two years later it was finally shut down on May 1, 1969.

Todays situation

Today only a two and a half kilometer long section is used exclusively for freight traffic and a four kilometer long section is used for passenger traffic.

In 1976, the line between the Osterfeld and Essen-Frintrop junctions was electrified and is now used as a double-track main freight train line. On March 1, 1996, the connection between Essen-Frintrop and Essen-Dellwig Ost was shut down, since then freight traffic from Oberhausen West has only run via the Prosper-Levin and Gerschede junctions (not to be confused with the Essen-Gerschede Hp ) to Bottrop Hbf or Bottrop Süd (bypassing the Oberhausen-Osterfeld marshalling yard ).

The middle section between the Schönebeck and Essen-Dellwig Ost junction was electrified in 1980 and is now classified as a double-track mainline passenger train. In the north it is now tied through to the single-track connection line 2248 to Bottrop Hbf, in the south it continues as line 2280 to Essen West , where it joins the S-Bahn line to Essen Hbf .

At the Essen-Frohnhausen stop, only the S-Bahn S 1 and S 3 stop on the main line, because although the line runs through the middle between the two platforms, it does not have a platform itself. The RE 14 regional express also runs through the stopping point as well as the Essen West train station on the S-Bahn line and ends at the S-Bahn platform in Essen Central Station , as changing to the long-distance line requires crossing the opposite track.

Web links

NRWbahnarchiv by André Joost:

• Description of route 2181 : Mülheim-Heißen ↔ Essen West
• Description of route 2182 : Mülheim-Heißen ↔ Abzw Schönebeck
• Description of route 2261 : Essen-Frintrop ↔ Oberhausen-Osterfeld Nord
• Description of the route 2280 : Abzw Schönebeck ↔ Essen-Frintrop

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DB Netze - Infrastructure Register
2. ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .