Railway line Witten / Dortmund – Oberhausen / Duisburg

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

Witten / Dortmund – Oberhausen / Duisburg
Network map of the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Route class :	D4
Power system :	15 kV 16.7 Hz  ~
Top speed:	160 km / h
State:	North Rhine-Westphalia
Witten – Bochum / Dortmund
Route number (DB) :	2140 (Witten – Bochum-Langendreer) 2125 (Witten – Dortmund)
Course book section (DB) :	440 (Witten – Essen) 427 (Witten – Dortmund)
Route length:	7 or 16 km
Legend Route from Dortmund-Lütgendortmund (see below) 0.0 Bochum-Langendreer Lpf (see below) Osterath – Dortmund Süd route 1.0 Bochum-Langendreer Bez Kreuz (Bft) S-Bahn line Bochum – Dortmund S 1 (see below) Oberstrasse tunnel (565m) 1.0 Bochum-Langendreer Cross ( Abzw ) former route to DO-Löttringhausen 2.6 Stockumer Strasse (Abzw) 3.5 Wood ( Bk ) S-Bahn line from Dortmund S 5 6.8 Witten Hbf Route via Wengern Ost to Hagen Route via Wetter to Hagen S 5
Dortmund – Duisburg
Long-distance railway:
Route number (DB) :	2184 (Duisburg – Mülheim-Styrum) 2300 (Mülheim-Styrum – Essen) 2160 (Essen – Bochum) 2158 (Bochum – Dortmund)
Course book section (DB) :	415 (Duisburg – Dortmund) 440 (Essen – Witten)
Train:
Route number (DB) :	2290 (Duisburg – Mülheim-Styrum) 2291 (Mülheim-Styrum – Bochum) 2190 (Bochum – Dortmund)
Course book section (DB) :	450.1 (Duisburg – Dortmund) 450.3 (Oberhausen – Essen-Steele Ost) 450.9 (Essen-West – Essen-Steele)
Route length:	54 km
Legend Main line from Hamm Route from Lünen 164.3 19.1 Dortmund Hbf (formerly Dortmund BME) Route to Soest & route to Iserlohn S-Bahn line to Witten S 5 Route to Dortmund-Mengede Route to Dortmund-Rahm S-Bahn line to Dortmund-Mengede S 2 Dorstfeld Tunnel (366m) 16.5 Dortmund-Dorstfeld ( tower station , deep) Line Lütgendortmund – Dortmund Süd S 4 Dortmund-Huckarde – Dortmunderfeld route 161.3 00.0 Dortmund-Dorstfeld (old) University tunnel (1352 m) 15.4 Dortmund-Dorstfeld South 14.5 Dortmund University 158.6 00.0 Dortmund-Lütgendortmund junction Elevation Oespel (545 m) 11.9 Dortmund-Oespel 157.1 00.0 Dortmund-Lütgendortmund Gbf 156.7 00.0 Dortmund-Lütgendortmund Hp 10.7 Dortmund-Kley 10.1 Practice Dortmund-Kley "Rhenish route" from Dortmund South Route to Witten (see above) Route from Witten (see above) Bochum-Langendreer Bez Süd 7.3 Bochum-Langendreer (S-Bahn) 153.0 00.0 Bochum-Langendreer Lpf 5.9 Bochum-Langendreer West Bochum-Langendreer Lgf Route to Bochum-Laer Bochum-Langendreer Bez West 148.4 Prince of Prussia ( Abzw ) ( Flyover structure ) "Rhenish route" to Bochum North former route Bochum Nord – Bochum-Weitmar 146.0 00.0 16.1 146.0 Bochum Hbf Route to Bochum-West 15.4 145.3 Bochum Süd (formerly Bochum Hbf old, previously Bochum BME) 15.0 145.9 Bochum- Ehrenfeld (S-Bahn) 14.7 000.0 Bochum Gbf 14.0 144.9 13.5 144.4 Bochum- Ehrenfeld (Bft) (Routes from 1875 and 1862) 140.8 Wattenscheid-Höntrop 140.0 BÜ Ginsterweg 9.7 000.0 Wattenscheid (formerly Wattenscheid BME) 8.7 000.0 Wattenscheid Üst 138.7 BÜ Stalleickenweg switchless track connection substation 137.4 BÜ way on the mountains 136.9 Eating egg mountain 136.4 BÜ Tossens Büschken 136.4 Essen-Steele Ost W92 junction S-Bahn line from Hattingen (Ruhr) S 3 135.3 Essen-Steele Ost (formerly Steele Hbf) S-Bahn line from Wuppertal S 9 134.2 Food Steele 4.7 000.0 Essen-Kray South 3.9 000.0 Essen-Kray Süd Abzw Line from Gelsenkirchen S 2   and former route from Essen-Katernberg S-Bahn line from Kettwig S 6 0.2 129.5 Essen Central Station (formerly Essen BME) 127.1 Food west formerly on the route to Essen-Borbeck 126.0 Essen-Frohnhausen Route to Essen-Borbeck S 9 former line today train station track from Essen West former route from Essen North former route from Essen-Borbeck former route from Altendorf (Ruhr) 123.9 Mülheim (Ruhr) - Heißen (Bft, formerly Bf) ( Overpass structure , from here directional operation ) 119.5 Mülheim (Ruhr) Hbf (former Keilbahnhof ) former route to Duisburg-Hochfeld Süd 118.1 Mülheim (Ruhr) West (formerly Mülheim BME) formerly Lower Ruhr Valley Railway from Kettwig 116.4 0.1 Mülheim (Ruhr) -Styrum former route to DU-Ruhrort (see below) Routes to Oberhausen S 3 (see below) 3.9 Kaiserberg (Abzw) 6.3 Duisburg Hbf (formerly Duisburg BME) Main line to Düsseldorf S 1
Mülheim-Styrum-Oberhausen / Duisburg-Ruhrort
Route number (DB) :	2183 (Oberhausen – Mülheim-Styrum) 2188 (Alstaden – Mülheim-Styrum) 2300 (Duisburg-Ruhrort – Mülheim-Styrum)
Course book section (DB) :	450.3 (Oberhausen – Essen-Steele Ost)
Route length:	4 (or 9)  km
Legend Route from Oberhausen-Osterfeld Süd Line from Wesel Route from Essen-Altenessen 4.0 000.0 Oberhausen Hbf (formerly Oberhausen BME) Route to Duisburg-Ruhrort Route to Duisburg Line from Mülheim (Ruhr) S 1 S 3 (see above) 0.0 116.4 Mülheim (Ruhr) -Styrum Line to Duisburg S 1 (see above) 0.9 000.0 Mülheim (Ruhr) -Styrum Bez West (old route until 1888) (new route from 1888) S 3 114.7 Hiberniastr (Abzw) Route Oberhausen Hbf – Duisburg Hbf 113.8 Alstaden 113.1 Duisburg-Dümpten former route to Duisburg-Ruhrort Hafen Oberhausen West – Abzw Sigle route Rhine-Herne Canal (formerly looping track ) 111.8 Duisburg-Ratingsee Line from Oberhausen 110.8 Duisburg-Meiderich South former route from Duisburg-Meiderich north 108.8 Duisburg-Ruhrort port old former route to Duisburg-Ruhrort Hafenbf 107.3 Duisburg-Ruhrort (formerly Bf) former Ruhrort – Homberg trajectory (105.9) Homberg (Nrh) former route to Mönchengladbach

The Witten / Dortmund – Oberhausen / Duisburg railway is one of the most important and busiest railway lines in Germany . It is the main axis of long-distance and local rail passenger transport on the east-west axis of the Ruhr area , u. a. used by Intercity-Express , Intercity , Regional-Express , Regionalbahn and the Rhein-Ruhr S-Bahn .

Strictly speaking, this main line today consists of two parallel, double-track lines for long-distance and suburban railways, which in some parts share a railway body, but have completely separate routes in several sections. The long-distance line largely follows the historical course of the line that was built in 1860–1862 by the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft in connection with its main line Elberfeld - Dortmund .

history

The Cöln-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (CME for short) had bypassed the heavily hilly land along the Ruhr and Wupper in order to minimize costs in the construction and operation of the route during the construction of its main line from 1845 to 1847. But this cut it off from the coal mines that were located on the north bank of the Ruhr in the middle of the 19th century.

The Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (BME for short), on the other hand, created a rail link between the highly industrialized area in the Wupper Valley and the Bergisches Land in an easterly direction with its main line from 1847 to 1849 and therefore did not shy away from opening up the area between the Ruhr and Emscher . With the Ruhr area route, she wanted in particular to create the lucrative connection to the coal mines north of the Ruhr.

Construction of the original route

The most conveniently located station for this project was that of Witten , from here the BME began building its line to the west. On October 26, 1860, the first section from Witten BME to Bochum BME (formerly Bochum Süd , Bochum Hbf (old) ) was opened for passenger traffic.

On March 1, 1862, the section from Bochum via Steele, Essen BME , Mülheim (Ruhr) BME and Styrum to Oberhausen BME was opened, a few weeks later on May 1, 1862 with the section from Styrum to Duisburg BME the line in the west completed for now.

In the same year, Langendreer BME extended the line backwards towards the east to Dortmund BME and opened it for passenger traffic on October 5, 1862.

Styrum - Ruhrort line

In the years that followed, the line was continuously expanded and connecting lines were added. With the construction of the railway line from Witten via Essen to Duisburg in 1862, the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn had its own access to the coal mines of the Ruhr area and was thus able to compete with the Cologne-Mindener Eisenbahn, which had previously only been active there. To transport the coal in the direction of Belgium, the Netherlands and the seaports there, it decided to build a connecting line from Mülheim-Styrum to the Ruhrort port.

After the BME first took over the operational management and later also the routes of the Royal Direction of the Aachen-Düsseldorf-Ruhrorter Eisenbahn including the Ruhrort-Homberg trajectory in 1864 , it built its own route to Ruhrort from Styrum, partly parallel to the older CME railway line from Oberhausen about Meiderich (-Süd), which was inaugurated on December 4, 1867.

At Duisburg-Meiderich Süd station , the railway met the Ruhrortbahn and followed the course to the Ruhrort station, which is located directly at the railway port, where a connection to the left bank of the Rhine and the Aachen-Düsseldorf-Ruhrorter railway company through the Ruhrort-Homberg trajectory was established until 1907 duration.

An operational feature set the gauntlet track between Dümpten represents Ratingsee and which on the designed only for single-track operating bridge over the Rhine Herne channel enabled a soft-free two-track routing.

Passenger traffic had been carried out by battery-powered railcars of the ETA 150 series since the 1960s . Passenger traffic on the railway line was discontinued on April 1, 1995, the complete closure followed in 1996. The bridge over the Rhine-Herne Canal was demolished after the closure.

Essen - Bochum - Herne route

On November 1, 1874, an additional route was inaugurated, initially for freight traffic and two months later on January 1, 1875 for passenger traffic as well, from Essen BME via Wattenscheid BME to Bochum BME , and with continuous kilometers continued via Bochum-Riemke and Herne-Rottbruch to Herne BME . Later this line was further built via Crange and Bismarck to Oberhausen BME and back to Essen BME .

See also : Bochum – Essen / Oberhausen railway line

After the relocation of the Bergisch-Märkischer Bahnhof (Bochum BME) in 1957 to today's Bochum Hauptbahnhof , the line to Bochum West was also closed. Instead, a connecting track from the new main train station to Bochum West was built in 1979 a good kilometer further east. The old connecting curve is now rail-free.

Since then, this route has been divided into two completely different parts, the western section is now used by the long-distance line between Duisburg and Dortmund (otherwise this follows the original route), while the northern branch is currently only used by the regional train RB 46, which connects to Gelsenkirchen " Glückauf-Bahn “and freight traffic is used. The latter is usually continued on the "taxiway" in the direction of Münster or the "Emschertalbahn" to Duisburg .

Expansion for S-Bahn

As part of the construction of the Rhein-Ruhr S-Bahn , work began in the early 1970s to expand the line to include at least four tracks . On September 23, 1973, the section between the former Mülheim-Eppinghofen station (today Mülheim (Ruhr) Hauptbahnhof ) and Mülheim (Ruhr) -Styrum station was inaugurated, followed by another section to Duisburg main station on December 10, 1973 . With the opening of the S-Bahn traffic, long-distance traffic on the section from Mülheim-Styrum to Oberhausen Hauptbahnhof was discontinued.

After the opening of two further sections on March 11, 1974 between Essen Hauptbahnhof and Essen-Steele and Essen West and the now so-called Mülheim Hauptbahnhof, the S-Bahn line S 1 between Duisburg-Großenbaum and Bochum Hauptbahnhof and line S 3 between Oberhausen Main station and Hattingen handed over to the public.

Since the University of Dortmund, founded in 1968, had to have a connection to the S-Bahn network, a completely new route - partly underground - between Bochum-Langendreer and Dortmund-Dorstfeld was built by September 24, 1983, from where the route again follows the historic route to Dortmund Central Station .

Expansion for long-distance traffic

In order to relieve the completely overloaded Elberfeld – Dortmund railway line between Witten Hauptbahnhof and Dortmund Hauptbahnhof , an additional connection was built under route number 2125 from the Stockumer Straße junction in Bochum-Langendreer to the Lütgendortmund junction through the 565 meter long Oberstraße tunnel to the long-distance railway line towards Dortmund Inaugurated on May 29, 1988.

Since then, all Intercity and Intercity Express services between Wuppertal and Dortmund as well as the RE 4 regional express have been running on the new route.

Partial shutdown

At the beginning of the 20th century, up to four parallel tracks were used exclusively for freight traffic, with the decline after the Second World War on this line, these tracks were then gradually shut down. Some of them were put back into operation as part of the new S-Bahn or the new long-distance railway line between Witten and Dortmund.

On the section between Duisburg-Meiderich Süd and Mülheim (Ruhr) -Styrum, only battery-powered railcars of the 515 series drove last . All traffic was discontinued on April 1, 1995, and the section was finally shut down a good year later on May 1, 1996. The southern platform of the Duisburg-Meiderich Süd station , the embankment to the east and the bridge over the Rhine-Herne Canal were dismantled immediately, the remaining rails are partly still lying idle today.

Todays situation

Railway construction work at the Essen-Kray Süd junction

The railway line from Witten or Dortmund to Oberhausen or Duisburg has been of immense importance for rail traffic in the Ruhr area since its opening and was therefore repeatedly expanded and modernized, six-track sections were not uncommon. At the end of the 1950s, the construction of the overhead line began.

Today, the entire length of the main line between Dortmund and Duisburg has four tracks (between Essen and Bochum as well as between Bochum-Langendreer and Dortmund partly on spatially separate routes) and electrified, the permissible line speed is mostly 150 to 160 km / h.

The routes to and from Witten are double-tracked and also electrified, the western connection is approved for up to 120 km / h, the eastern connection with the Oberstraße tunnel for up to 140 and 155 km / h, respectively.

In November 2013, a mining tunnel was discovered during construction work in the track field of Essen Hauptbahnhof , which runs 24 meters below the tracks. For fear of vibrations, the top speed was reduced to 5 km / h. Extensive diversions of long-distance trains were necessary. The tunnel was filled in, but further cavities were found under the tracks. The construction work lasted until the end of December 2013.

The long-distance railway line between Duisburg and Dortmund has been classified as a " congested rail line " since 2014 .

Offer

Today only the route between Dortmund Central Station and Duisburg Central Station is used continuously , but this is used by all types of train:

Long-distance passenger rail transport

In particular, the Intercity-Express operates on the hourly east-west connection of ICE line 10 (between Berlin and Cologne) and on the two-hour north-south connection of ICE line 42 (between Dortmund and Munich), plus others Trains on ICE lines 31, 41 (Duisburg - Essen every hour) and line 91.

In addition, there are two hourly Intercity routes on IC lines 30 and 51, as well as various trains on lines 26, 32 and 55.

See also : List of Intercity Express Train Stations  and List of Intercity Train Stations

Local rail transport

The regional express is the backbone of regional traffic on the main railway axis of the Ruhr area . The RE 1 “ NRW-Express ”, the RE 6 “ Westfalen-Express ” and the RE 11 “ Rhein-Hellweg-Express ” run every hour between Dortmund Hauptbahnhof and Duisburg Hauptbahnhof .

The S 1 line of the Rhein-Ruhr S-Bahn also runs the entire route between Dortmund and Duisburg every twenty minutes, using the original route via Steele between Essen and Bochum and the new route from 1983 between Bochum and Dortmund. A compression to one The S-Bahn runs every ten minutes in the section between Essen-Steele Ost and Mülheim-Styrum through the S 3 on its way from Hattingen (Ruhr) Mitte to Oberhausen Hauptbahnhof.

The section to Witten Hauptbahnhof is now only used from and to Essen Hauptbahnhof , on the one hand by the RE 16 " Ruhr-Sieg-Express " via Hagen Hauptbahnhof to Siegen , on the other hand by the RB 40 "Ruhr-Lenne-Bahn", the ends in Hagen. The RE 2 " Rhein-Haard-Express " uses the section between Essen main station and Duisburg main station , at both stations it then switches to the former "Rheinische" lines .

The shortest route section traveled the RE 14 " The Borkener " and the S 9, the two lines come from Bottrop Hauptbahnhof and follow from Essen-Dellwig the former railway line Mülheim-Hot-Oberhausen-Osterfeld Nord , the amount of the breakpoint Essen-Frohnhausen in the S-Bahn route is threaded, but without a platform connection and thus without a stop. The RE has no stop in Essen West and turns in Essen Hauptbahnhof. Until December 2006 he drove on to Essen-Steele Ost. The S 9 continues in the direction of Wuppertal via the connecting curve to the Ruhr Valley Railway .

See also : List of SPNV lines in North Rhine-Westphalia

Tariff

On local and regional trains, only the network tariff applies to journeys within the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr (VRR). For trips beyond the network boundaries, transitional tariffs apply to the neighboring transport communities, as well as the NRW tariff .

For journeys on long-distance trains, Deutsche Bahn AG tickets must also be purchased within the VRR .

particularities

• The unusual kilometering of the line (starting at kilometer 107.3 in Duisburg-Ruhrort) is due to the fact that the Aachen – Mönchengladbach and Mönchengladbach - Duisburg-Ruhrort railway of the Aachen-Düsseldorf-Ruhrorter Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft were included. The kilometrage begins in Aachen (km 0.0) via Mönchengladbach (km 63.9) and Krefeld-Uerdingen Hp (km 93.7) to Duisburg-Homberg (km 105.9).
• Although the bridge over the Rhine-Herne Canal was only intended for one track, the line in this section was double-tracked until the line was closed. This was made possible by looping the track in the area of ​​the bridge, which saved points ( but of course a block protection was still required). After the line was closed, the bridge was demolished.
• While the embankment of the section between Duisburg-Meiderich Süd and Duisburg-Ratingsee east of Bahnhofstrasse can still be clearly seen, the embankment between Bahnhofstrasse and Singstrasse has been completely removed to make room for the ramp of the Duisburg Stadtbahn , which is where the trams of Line 903 returns to daylight after crossing under the Ruhr and Duisburg-Ruhrorter ports .

literature

• Bernd Franco Hoffmann: The Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn. Through the valleys of Wupper, Ruhr and Volme. Sutton-Verlag, Erfurt 2015, ISBN 978-3-95400-580-2 .

Web links

NRWbahnarchiv by André Joost:

Long-distance railway:

• Description of route 2184 : Duisburg Hbf - Mülheim-Styrum
• Description of route 2300 : Duisburg-Ruhrort - Essen Hbf
• Description of route 2160 : Essen Hbf - Bochum Hbf (route from 1875, see Bochum – Essen / Oberhausen railway )
• Description of route 2158 : Bochum Hbf - Dortmund Hbf
• Description of route 2140 : Bochum-Langendreer - Witten Hbf
• Description of route 2125 : Witten Hbf - Dortmund Hbf (route from 1988)

Train:

• Description of route 2183 : Oberhausen Hbf - Mülheim-Styrum (route laid in 1888)
• Description of route 2290 : Duisburg Hbf - Mülheim-Styrum (route from 1973)
• Description of route 2291 : Mülheim-Styrum - Bochum Hbf
  • Description of route 2169 : Essen Hbf - Essen-Steele
  • Description of the route 2195 : Essen-Steele - Essen-Steele Ost
• Description of route 2190 : Bochum Hbf - Dortmund Hbf (route from 1983)

further evidence:

• Pictures of the former section Duisburg-Meiderich Süd - Mülheim (Ruhr) -Styrum (Victor Lansink's Railtrash)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .
2. ↑ Information and pictures about the tunnels on route 2125 on eisenbahn-tunnelportale.de by Lothar Brill
3. ↑ Information and pictures about the tunnels on route 2190 on eisenbahn-tunnelportale.de by Lothar Brill
4. ↑ The Hot Mountain ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ ^{a b c} Pictures of the track loop
6. ^ Eisenbahn-magazin 1/2014, p. 21
7. ↑ DB Netz AG Terms of Use for the Rail Network 2017 (SNB 2017) ( Memento of August 28, 2017 in the Internet Archive )