Railway line Prussia – Münster

Preußen – Münster (Westf) Hbf
Route number (DB) :	2000
Course book section (DB) :	411
Route length:	45 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system :	15 kV 16.7 Hz  ~
Top speed:	160 km / h
Legend Main line from Hamburg Line from Rheine , line from Enschede Warendorfer Bahn from Rheda-Wiedenbrück 45.2 Münster (Westf) central station Baumberbahn to Coesfeld 44.3 Münster (Westf) Gbf Route to Hamm 42.3 ghost Route to Wanne-Eickel 42.1 Münster (Westf) Prussia Stadium Münster freight bypass railway 36.2 Munster-Amelsbueren 29.2 Davensberg 25.2 Ascheberg (Westf) 19.9 Capelle (Westf) 12.4 Werne (ad Lippe) 10.0 Werne (ad Lippe) Anst City ( Bft ) Route from Enschede – Dülmen 3.3 Lünen Hbf ( wedge station ) Connection route to Lünen Süd Route Lünen Süd – Abzw Horstmar Connection to Abzw Horstmar 0.0 Lünen Prussia Route to Dortmund Swell:

The Preußen – Münster line is a 45-kilometer-long, electrified and almost completely single-track main line in North Rhine-Westphalia from the Lünen Preußen station in the Horstmar district of Lüner via Lünen and Werne to Münster .

history

The railway line was built by the Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft to provide the most direct possible connection between the two Westphalian cities of Dortmund and Münster. To this end, a new line to Münster was built on the existing Dortmund – Enschede railway line , starting at the Prussian train station and opened on October 18, 1928.

The Prussian railway station (opened on February 19, 1920) got its name from the Prussian colliery located there in the Horstmar district of Lüner at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century . In December 2019, the name was changed to Lünen Prussia .

The original plan was to initially build the line on a single track, but to build the embankment wide enough for a second track right from the start. Due to the increasing volume of traffic caused by mining and the steel industry, the line was then to be expanded to double-track, which was rejected again due to the war and inflation.

Temporary cessation of operations

On March 8, 1990, there was a dam slide on the open stretch, as a result of which the entire route had to be closed because no regulated traffic was possible on the single-track route due to the lack of alternative options. The repair work dragged on for more than a year, so that the line could not be reopened for passenger traffic until June 2, 1991.

In autumn 2018, damage to the embankment occurred again at three points in the Lünen - Münster section. Due to the dry summer, settlement cracks formed in the embankment through the dried up embankment, which were closed by concrete suspensions. During this work it was found that there was movement in the ground at two of the three locations. These are the areas that were repaired in 1991. The clay-like marl in the ground has reacted with water over the years, causing swelling and shrinking. As a result of the damage, the speed at these points had to be reduced from 160 km / h to 70 km / h in October 2018 and the route class to B2 in the section from km 8.765 to km 28.500. Therefore, the regular long-distance trains on the route were diverted to other routes via Hamm and Recklinghausen, which also resulted in stops in Bochum, Dortmund and Hagen. The route has been completely closed since January 6, 2020 because sheet piling was installed to stabilize the dam in the areas of Werne and Ascheberg Ascheberg (Westphalia) . Originally, the route should be back on August 12, 2020. After damage to the superstructure was found in June 2020, the restoration of the line is now planned for October 25, 2020.

Expansion planning

The double-track expansion and the upgrading of the line for a maximum speed of 200 km / h was included in the Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan in 2003 and classified in the "Urgent Need" category. On December 12, 2008, the decision to upgrade the line followed . The cost in December 2008 was around 180 million euros. After in-depth investigations, this sum was corrected to around 377 million euros at the end of April 2010. On August 20, 2009, the Ministry of Transport and Deutsche Bahn AG signed a pre-financing agreement. The plan was to complete the preliminary technical planning at the end of 2011 so that the plan approval process could begin in 2012 . The state should pre-finance the costs of the preliminary planning.

In addition, there were plans to build a new connection, which should branch off the Dortmund-Hamm railway behind the Dortmund-Scharnhorst train station and join the route to Münster at Werne. The idea was to accelerate long-distance traffic between Dortmund and Münster and to avoid the tight bends at the station entrances and exits of Dortmund and Lünen and in front of Werne. In addition, the intention was to make the trains run more smoothly because they do not have to cross each other's routes.

In August 2009, Deutsche Bahn and the state of North Rhine-Westphalia agreed to implement the preliminary planning for a double-track expansion in connection with an increase in the maximum speed to 200 km / h by 2011 , which the state would have pre-financed with seven million euros. The double-track expansion of the route is included in the 2011–2015 investment framework plan for the federal transport infrastructure of December 15, 2011, but only in Part D "Other important projects / sub-projects", which corresponds to the lowest priority. The actual start of construction is not expected before 2018. The costs are calculated at 380 million euros.

The expansion is to be discussed again in the 2030 traffic route plan at the earliest. As an interim solution, only two so-called meeting points will be built on the route, where local and long-distance traffic can avoid each other. A double-track expansion would cost more than EUR 400 million, which cannot be represented in the cost / benefit ratio.

On the occasion of the opening of the new main train station in Münster, the Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Transport, Enak Ferlemann , announced the double-track expansion of the Münster - Lünen railway line on June 24, 2017 . The importance of the (possibly partial) expansion, including the planned connection to the Rhine-Ruhr Express (RRX), was underlined.

According to reports, the project will be included in the "urgent need" for the expansion of traffic routes by the end of 2017, and the federal government is convinced of the urgent need for the project.

The partially double-track expansion should move up to the urgent needs of the BVWP 2030 . For this purpose, the expansion concept was reduced to a two-track expansion only between Münster-Amelsbüren and Werne an der Lippe, but the top speed was increased to 230 km / h between Münster-Geist and Werne an der Lippe. This reduced the expansion costs to € 302 million, including € 94 million in replacement investments, with a benefit-cost ratio of 1.0. Just a few months after the publication on November 6, 2018, the BMVI published an even further shortened version of the expansion in early March 2019. Now, in addition to the expansion for 230 km / h to 27 kilometers, only the 5.3 km long section Capelle-Ascheberg is to be expanded to two tracks, as well as adaptation measures at the existing crossing stations at Münster-Amelsbüren and Davensberg (here is the source in its formulation “Facility of “wrong”. This reduced the expansion measures and expansion costs without replacement investments by a further 30 million euros to now 178.3 million euros. As a result, the NKV rose to 1.1. As a result of inflation, however, the budget-relevant project costs rose from 302 to 305.1 million euros today.

service

In the time slot between long-distance trains, the regional train RB 50 “ Der Lüner ” runs once an hour from Dortmund to Lünen on the Dortmund – Enschede line (Westmünsterlandbahn). A train crossing takes place on the hour in Capelle according to plan; it is held at all stops en route. Since the route between Lünen and Münster is only a single track, this offer cannot be meaningfully condensed.

Of the Intercity trains from the Ruhr area to Northern Germany, due to the single track, only one train per hour and direction travels over this direct connection between Dortmund and Münster, and every two hours a pair of trains takes the route from Wanne-Eickel . Individual trains run via Hamm . An advance regulation between Münster-Amelsbüren and Davensberg enables flexible adjustment of the intersection point between IC and RB 50 in the event of delays.

In the future, the Rhein-Ruhr-Express is to travel the route every hour if the planned two-track expansion of the route should come about.

Web links

NRWbahnarchiv by André Joost:

• Description of the route 2000 : Prussia ↔ Münster
• Description of the connection route 2900 : Lünen South ↔ Lünen
• Description of the connection route 2901 : Prussia ↔ Abzw Horstmar

further evidence:

• Final report - Federal Railways November 2010 (Version 29 November 2010) (PDF, 34 MiB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DB Netze - Infrastructure Register
2. ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .
3. ↑ http://www.derwesten.de/staedte/luenen/Modernisierung-startet-erst-2012-id4181246.html
4. ↑ https://www.deutschebahn.com/pr-duesseldorf-de/aktuell/presseinformationen/Strecke-Muenster-Luenen-Umfanghaben-Reparaturen-am-Bahndamm-starten-im-Januar-2020--4613390
5. ↑ https://www.deutschebahn.com/pr-duesseldorf-de/aktuell/presseinformationen/Bahndamm-Muenster-Luenen-Sanierungsarbeiten-5300426
6. ↑ Second track to Lünen for 180 million euros? In: Westfälische Nachrichten , December 3, 2008
7. ↑ Expansion of the railway line will be much more expensive than planned. ( Memento from May 2, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) In: Ruhr Nachrichten (online edition), April 30, 2010
8. ^ The Münster - Lünen railway line will be double-tracked - Münstersche Zeitung of August 21, 2009
9. ↑ Expansion of the route from Lünen to Münster is getting closer . In: DB Welt , October 2009 edition, West regional section, p. 21
10. ↑ ^{a b The} Münster – Lünen railway line is to be expanded from 2018 . In: Münstersche Zeitung (online edition), June 14, 2012.
11. ↑ ^{a b} Electrical operation at Deutsche Bahn in 2009 . In: Elektro Bahnen , Volume 108 (2010), Issue 1–2, p. 11.
12. ↑ Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development (Ed.): Investment Framework Plan 2011–2015 for the Federal Transport Infrastructure (IRP) . Berlin March 15, 2012 ( bmvi.de [PDF; 5.7 MB ; accessed on February 8, 2014] see Annex 1, p. 7). Investment Framework Plan 2011–2015 for the Federal Transport Infrastructure (IRP) ( Memento of the original dated February 22, 2014 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.  
13. ↑ Expansion included in the investment plan until 2015 . In: Münstersche Zeitung , March 29, 2012.
14. ↑ Sensation: Federal government announces expansion of the Münster - Dortmund railway line. Westfälische Nachrichten , June 24, 2017, accessed on June 24, 2017 . 
15. ↑ Expansion of the Münster – Lünen route more likely , Westdeutscher Rundfunk from October 25, 2018, accessed on November 6, 2018
16. ↑ https://www.bmvi.de/SharedDocs/DE/Anlage/Presse/versicherung-schienenwegeausbau-des-potentialen-bedarfs-bvwp-2030.pdf?__blob=publicationFile page 23
17. ↑ DB Netze track, route database
18. ↑ http://www.bvwp-projekte.de/schiene_2018/2-049-V02/2-049-V02.html