Osterath – Dortmund Süd railway line

This article deals with the Ruhr area line of the Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft , for other routes see the Dortmund – Duisburg line .

Meerbusch-Osterath-Dortmund South
Route network of the former Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft
Route number (DB) :	2610 (Meerbusch-Osterath - Lohbruch) 2504 (Lohbruch - DU-Rheinhausen) 2505 (DU-Rheinhausen - BO Nord) 2151 (BO Nord - DO Dorstfeld) 2126 (DO Dorstfeld - DO Süd) Connection routes: 2312 (DU-Hochfeld Süd - DU Hbf) 2326 (DU Hbf - DU-Hochfeld Süd Vorbf)
Course book section (DB) :	425 (KR-Oppum - DU Hbf) 450.4 (DO-Lütgendortmund - DO Süd)
Route length:	76 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system :	Meerbusch-Osterath-Mülheim (Ruhr) -Speldorf Bochum President-Dortmund South: 15 kV 16.7 Hz  ~
Top speed:	120 or 80 km / h
Legend Line from Unna-Königsborn S 4 former route from Dortmund East formerly " Wuppertal Northern Railway " 69.5 Dortmund South (formerly Dortmund RhE / KWE) 69.1 Dortmund town house 67.9 Dortmund Möllerbrücke 66.9 Dortmund West ( tower station planned) ** Line from Dortmund S 2 Line from Dortmunderfeld 9.0 66.1 Dortmund-Dorstfeld ( tower station , high) * Line to Dortmund-Mengede S 2 7.7 00.0 Dortmund-Dorstfeld West junction Line from Dortmund-Huckarde 64.6 Dortmund-Dorstfeld Gbf 63.3 Junction Dortmund-Lütgendortmund Flm Long-distance railway line from Dortmund Hbf 6.2 00.0 Dortmund-Marten South 62.4 Dortmund-Lütgendortmund (Abzw) 4.2 00.0 Dortmund-Germania 61.4 Dortmund-Lütgendortmund Gbf 3.9 61, 0 Dortmund-Lütgendortmund (old) 3.3 00.0 Üst Dortmund-Somborn (single track from here) 3.3 00.0 Dortmund-Somborn Lütgendortmunder Tunnel (1236m) 1.8 00.0 Dortmund-Lütgendortmund S-Bahn ( S 4 new, planned) Line from Dortmund 0.0 00.0 Dortmund-Bövinghausen Route to Herne Line from Dortmund-Dorstfeld (deep) S 1 Route to Witten former route from Dortmund-Löttringhausen Route from Witten 57.0 Bochum-Langendreer Bez Süd Bochum-Langendreer (S-Bahn) Bochum-Langendreer Lpf Bochum-Langendreer West 57.2 Bochum-Langendreer Lgf Route to Bochum-Laer 55.6 Bochum-Langendreer Bez West 52.2 Abzw Prince of Prussia Route to Bochum Hbf S 1 former route from Bochum-Weitmar Long-distance railway line to Bochum Hbf Connection to Bochum Hbf 50.5 Bochum North (formerly Bochum RhE) 49.2 Bochum President Route to Herne-Rottbruch Herne-Rottbruch – Bochum line 48.7 Bochum President Gbf At the ThyssenKrupp steel / strip plant 46.5 Bü Centrumstrasse 45.3 Bü Blücherstrasse 44.9 Awanst Bochum IKEA Former route from Wanne-Eickel Hbf 43.1 Gelsenkirchen-Wattenscheid former route to Gelsenkirchen Hbf 41.4 Bü Krayer Street 41.4 Initially Essen-Kray Nord RWE Former route from Wanne-Eickel Hbf Line from Gelsenkirchen Hbf S 2 39.1 Essen-Kray Nord 36.3 Abzw Frillendorf (most recently Bk ) Route to Essen Hbf S 2 former route Essen-Stoppenberg – Essen Hbf Essen East Gbf former route from Essen-Stoppenberg 34.0 Essen North (formerly Essen RhE) former route to Altenessen / Bergeborbeck 31.0 Essen-Altendorf (Abzw, formerly Altendorf Bf) former route to Essen-Borbeck Essen-Borbeck – Essen West route former route from Essen-Borbeck Connection route from Essen West Main line from Essen West S 1 former route from Altendorf (Ruhr) 28.0 Mülheim (Ruhr) -Heissen 23.5 Mülheim (Ruhr) Hbf (former Keilbahnhof ) Main line to Duisburg S 1 Mülheim city viaduct over the Ruhr formerly Lower Ruhr Valley Railway MH-Styrum – E-Kettwig 22.0 Mülheim (Ruhr) MüGa ( MüGa 1992) formerly Lower Ruhr Valley Railway from Essen-Kettwig Connection route to the Rhine-Ruhr port Bü Speldorf Bf 20.9 Mülheim (Ruhr) -Speldorf 18.6 Bü cat break former route to Duisburg-Wedau Oberhausen West – Duisburg-Wedau line (until here closed for passenger traffic) 16.1 Duisburg-Hochfeld Süd Hd Line from Duisburg-Wedau 15.3 Duisburg-Hochfeld Süd Vorbf Line from Oberhausen West (among others) 2.8 00.0 Duisburg Central Station Duisburg regatta track (Branch lines from 1870 and 1880) Main line to Düsseldorf 0.0 14.1 Duisburg-Hochfeld Süd Abzw Duisburg-Hochfeld Süd Hafenbf 13.8 Duisburg-Hochfeld Süd Hp Freight route to Duisburg-Wanheim 13.7 Duisburg-Hochfelder Railway Bridge ( Rhine ) 13, 0 Rheinhausen Trajectbf from Duisburg Intermodal Terminal 11.8 Rheinhausen East 10.8 Rheinhausen Gbf 10.2 10.1 Rheinhausen former route from Duisburg-Meiderich north Trompet freight line Lower Rhine route to Trompet (former route via Hohenbudberg Rbf) former connection from the Lower Rhine route 7.9 Hohenbudberg settlement 6.9 Hohenbudberg 7.5 00000 Mühlenberg (Abzw) 6.5 00000 Krefeld-Hohenbudberg Chempark 4.7 Krefeld-Uerdingen station 4.3 00000 Krefeld-Uerdingen Hp 1.7 001.6 Krefeld-Linn A 57 today's / orig. Rhenish route to Krefeld 0.7 Krefeld BMW (Awanst) Today's left Lower Rhine route from Krefeld 0.0 00000 Krefeld oppum -0.1 49.2 Lohbruch (Abzw) today's route to Krefeld Originally Rhenish route to Krefeld (only GV) Originally the left Lower Rhine route from Krefeld 43.2 Meerbusch-Osterath Left Lower Rhine route to Neuss Right kilometers according to RhE, left column new routes *  S 1 Dortmund – Bochum ** S 5 Dortmund – Hagen
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The Osterath – Dortmund Süd railway line is historically significant, but today it is mostly used only for freight transport in Germany . Various sections are still used by the regional express , regional train or S-Bahn .

The almost 76 kilometers long line, built in three stages by the Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft between 1866 and 1874 , was intended to be the third major west-east connection through the Ruhr area . In addition to the established and lucrative routes of its competitors - the Duisburg – Dortmund railway line of the Cologne-Minden Railway Company and the Ruhr area line of the Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company - it was never able to live up to this claim.

history

Since the Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (RhE for short) concentrated for a long time on the areas to the left of the Rhine , the Ruhr area with its coal mines and up-and-coming industry was opened up by the Köln-Mindener and Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft. The RhE wanted to penetrate this lucrative market and began construction at Osterath station on the left-hand Lower Rhine route .

Between Mülheim Hafen and Essen's Graf Beust colliery , the route of a horse-drawn tram that existed between 1853 and 1865 was also used.

Rhenish Railway Company
August 23, 1866	(2610)	Osterath - Lohbruch
September 1, 1866	(2505)	Osterath - Essen RhE
	including the Rheinhausen – Hochfeld trajectory (today's cultural port)
January 1, 1868	(2505)	Essen RhE - Wattenscheid RhE
February 15, 1870	(2312)	Hochfeld Süd - Duisburg RhE
	Branch line, start of the line to Quakenbrück
June 1, 1872	(2168)	Essen-Kray Nord - Gelsenkirchen RhE
October 15, 1874	(2505)	Wattenscheid RhE - Bochum RhE
November 19, 1874	(2151)	Bochum RhE - Dortmund-Dorstfeld (old)
November 19, 1874	(2126)	Dortmund-Dorstfeld (old) - Dortmund RhE
Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn
3rd July 1984	(2213)	Dortmund-Germania - Dortmund-Dorstfeld
May 23, 1993	(2213)	Dortmund-Lütgendortmund - Dortmund-Germania

Todays situation

The passenger traffic developed on the Rhenish route due to the parallel traffic of the route of the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahngesellschaft no greater importance. Passenger traffic on the section between Mülheim-Heißen and Essen-Kray-Nord was discontinued as early as 1959, followed by the Essen-Kray-Nord - Bochum-President section in 1965, and in 1979 the route from Bochum-President to Bochum-Langendreer was also abandoned .

Until May 30, 1986 leveled off Akkumulatortriebwagen the series 515 between Duisburg-Rheinhausen and Hohenbudberg settlement. Then the Rheinische Trasse from Krefeld-Linn to the former Hohenbudberg marshalling yard was completely dismantled together with it. Instead, the parallel route of the Ruhrort-Crefeld-Kreis Gladbacher Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft is used today.

Coming from the railway line from Mönchengladbach , the regional express RE 42 "Niers-Haard-Express" and the regional trains RB 33, RB 35 and RB 31 from the Lower Rhine line from Duisburg-Rheinhausen via the RhE route. After crossing the Rhine over the Duisburg-Hochfeld railway bridge , which was destroyed in the Second World War and then rebuilt , all passenger trains leave the main line and enter Duisburg Central Station via the branch line from 1870 .

The section of the Rhenish line from Duisburg-Hochfeld Süd station to Mülheim (Ruhr) Hauptbahnhof is now partially closed and - if at all - is mostly only used by delivery freight trains. As part of the forced unification of the Universities of Duisburg and Essen , discussions were briefly as well as inconclusive about preparing the route from Duisburg-Neudorf via (Mülheim-) Speldorf, Mülheim (Ruhr) Hauptbahnhof, (Mülheim-) Heißen to Essen Nord for passenger traffic in order to create a Establish a direct connection between the two campuses . The overhead line from Speldorf to the main station has now been dismantled. From the junction to the Mülheimer Nordhafen in Speldorf to the MüGa bridge in Broich, the rails have even been dismantled.

The Mülheim-Speldorf-Essen-Kray Nord section was closed in 2002. The route is interrupted several times in Essen. The bridges over Segeroth and Hans-Böckler-Strasse have been torn down; for the Berthold-Beitz-Boulevard the embankment was leveled over a width of about 50 m. Essen Nord train station and its two signal boxes have been shut down and will be demolished, and the new university district is being built in their place . The main track from Essen Nord to Essen-Kray Nord became the signal-free station track of Essen-Kray Nord when the Essen Nord station was closed. The Goldschmidt company is still approached from Essen-Kray Nord via Essen Nord.

In Essen-Kray, passenger traffic from Essen to Gelsenkirchen is touching the Rhenish line again after using the tracks on the Brandenburg line to Essen from Duisburg main station . Coming from Essen main station , it uses two connecting routes to the Cologne-Minden main line to Gelsenkirchen main station , with only the S-Bahn making intermediate stops.

The Rhenish line runs east of the Essen-Kray Nord train station in the direction of Bochum, but was shut down in 2004 until Bochum President, the line from Bochum Nord to Gelsenkirchen-Wattenscheid Gbf and back via the Carolinenglücker Bahn was used as a siding until around 2009. After the insolvency of the last major customer, the line was completely shut down. In the same year, the level crossings of the Rheinschen Bahn and the adjacent Carolinenglücker Bahn across Blücherstrasse in Bochum were renewed and brought up to date with the latest technology. Shortly afterwards, the route was no longer passable due to the demolition of a bridge over Autobahn 40 in Bochum-Stahlhausen. The Rhenish railway between Bochum and Essen is currently being gradually converted into the Ruhr (RS1) cycle expressway. The first section on the border between Gelsenkirchen and Wattenscheid is already under construction, most of the route between Essen and Bochum is no longer dedicated as a railway infrastructure (as of 2019). In the further course, the tracks of the former freight station Gelsenkirchen-Wattenscheid are to be completely leveled and houses and businesses are to be built in the middle of the former through tracks.

Critics cannot understand the pending decision on building, because around ten kilometers of railway line for a few hundred meters of building could never be used again. In times of the turnaround in traffic and the congestion of the Essen-Dortmund long-distance railway line, the unsecured reactivation seems to be incomprehensible, also because the districts of Günnigfeld / Südfeldmark, Leithe and Ückendorf are poorly served by public transport, the directly adjacent Lohrheidestadion is to be expanded and the line is Can connect main train stations Bochum and Essen in a short time.

From Bochum President to the east, the line will continue to be used as an electrified freight railway and to the west as a connecting line for the thyssenkrupp steelworks in Wattenscheid-Höntrop.

The easternmost section between Dortmund-Dorstfeld and Dortmund Süd has been used every 20 minutes since the S 4 S-Bahn was commissioned and the line to Dortmund-Lütgendortmund train station was expanded . From Dortmund South it uses the route to Welver the former Royal Westphalian Railway Company (short KWE) to Unna-Königsborn and part of the railway line Kamen-Fröndenberg to the station Unna .

In the Dortmund-Dorstfeld tower station , the S-Bahn lines S 1 coming from Dortmund Hauptbahnhof stop to Essen Hauptbahnhof via the Märkische route and the S 2 in the direction of Herne station via the route to Dortmund-Mengede .

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  Freight train on the bridge of the Rheinische Bahn over the federal highway 3 near Duisburg-Kaiserberg

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  A signal box at Essen Nord train station

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  Freight train near Gelsenkirchen-Wattenscheid in 1993

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  Bridge over Dorstener Strasse at the former Bochum President train station

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  Bridge over Schillerstraße in Bochum

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  Railway bridge of the Rheinische Bahn over Castroper Strasse in Bochum

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  Bochum-Nord station (1995)

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  Bochum North Railway Station (2008)

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  Regional Express 3, diverted via the Rheinische Bahn, in Bochum Nord

MüGa weasel

In 1992, Mülheim an der Ruhr hosted the state horticultural show on the “ MüGa site ” in the Broich district , which was largely created by dismantling former railway systems, e.g. B. the former Lower Ruhr Valley Railway . In order to create the fastest possible connection to the city center and in particular to Mülheim main station , part of the route was prepared for a shuttle train service, known as the “MüGa-Wiesel”.

At the site of the old RhE Eppinghof train station, a Schüttbahn platform was built, from which a transition to long-distance and regional traffic as well as to urban local traffic was possible. After the end of the garden show, passenger traffic was stopped and the platform systems at the main station and in Broich were completely dismantled. The route in the area of ​​the Mülheim city viaduct was subsequently converted into a cycle and footpath .

See also: Duisburg – Quakenbrück railway line # Oberhausen State Garden Show

Metrorapid

At the beginning of the first decade of the new millennium, there were considerations to build the Metrorapid magnetic levitation train on the tracks of the Rhenish line.

literature

• Hans-Paul Höpfner: Railways. Your story on the Lower Rhine . Mercator Verlag, Duisburg 1986, ISBN 978-3-87463-132-7 .

Web links

• Description of this sight on the route of industrial culturehttp: //vorlage.rik.test/~15~11533

NRWbahnarchiv by André Joost:

Original route:

• Route 2610 : Osterath ↔ Abzw. Lohbruch
• Line 2504 : former Lohbruch ↔ Duisburg-Rheinhausen
• Route 2505 : Duisburg-Rheinhausen ↔ Bochum North
• Route 2151 : Bochum North ↔ Dortmund-Dorstfeld
• Route 2126 : Dortmund-Dorstfeld ↔ Dortmund Süd

Connections to the main line of the CME :

• Line 2312 : Duisburg-Hochfeld Süd ↔ Duisburg Hbf
• Line 2326 : Duisburg Hbf ↔ Duisburg-Hochfeld Süd Vorbf
• Route 2181 : Mülheim-Heißen ↔ Essen West
• Route 2168 : Essen-Kray Nord ↔ Gelsenkirchen RhE

S-Bahn Rhein-Ruhr (new):

• Route 2213 : Dortmund-Lütgendortmund ↔ Dortmund-Dorstfeld

Further evidence:

• Photos from rail operations in Gelsenkirchen-Wattenscheid

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DB Netze - Infrastructure Register
2. ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .
3. ↑ The early mining of the Ruhr (with maps)
4. ↑ Tracks in service facilities (EENN) , DB Netz AG (PDF)
5. ↑ Gelsenkirchen-Wattenscheid train station: location defined  ( 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. (PDF)