Railway line from Friedrich Heinrich colliery to Rheinpreußen-Hafen

Friedrich Heinrich colliery - Rhine Prussia port

Route length:

Friedrich-Heinrich - Rheinkamp: approx. 7 km
Rheinkamp - Conn. INEOS: approx. 2 km
conn. INEOS - Rheinpreußen-Hafen: approx. 6 km
Total: approx. 15 km

Gauge :

1435 mm ( standard gauge )

State (D):

North Rhine-Westphalia

Legend

		Kamp-Lintfort (planned)
		Friedrich Heinrich colliery 1/2
		to the heap in Northern Germany / Friedrich Heinrich 3
		Kamp-Lintfort Süd (opened April 2020)
		Kamp-Lintfort / Moers city limits
		A 57
		L 287 from Moers to Kamp-Lintfort
		Pattberg shafts
		Moers-Repelen (planned)
		Pattberg shafts
		Moersbach
		L 137 ( W 57 )
		Lower Rhine line Moers – Xanten
		to Rheinkamp train station

		from the Ineos plant , Eurotec technology park (formerly Rheinpreußen 5/9 mine )

		Moers – Rheinberg freight line
		City limit Moers / Duisburg
		A 42
		Freight route from Meerbeck to Oberhausen
		Alpha Industrial Holding; Glunz AG wood storage ; formerly Hornitex
		Shell tank farm
		from the Rhine Prussia mine 4
		to the Rhine Prussia shaft 3
		Rhine Prussia port

The Friedrich Heinrich – Rheinpreußen-Hafen mine is about 15 kilometers long and connects the former Friedrich Heinrich colliery and the Pattberg shafts with the Lower Rhine route and the former Rheinpreußen 5/9 and Rheinpreußen 4 pits with the Rheinpreußen port in Homberg .

Routing

A junction leads from the Friedrich Heinrich colliery to shaft 3 (Northern Germany) and to the northern German dump, and another junction leads from the site of the former Rheinpreußen colliery , today's Eurotec technology park and the INEOS plant in the direction of the Rheinpreußen port . The Rhein-Waal University of Applied Sciences is now located near the northern end of the track on the site of the Friedrich Heinrich colliery .

At Baerl , near the federal motorway 42, it crosses the Moers – Rheinberg railway line, which is part of the NIAG, at the same level .

Near the Rhine bridges, the Beeckerwerther bridge and the Haus-Knipp railway bridge , it crosses the federal motorway 42 and the Hohenbudberg – Meiderich railway line .

It is operated by RAG Deutsche Steinkohle AG (DSK).

history

Since the start of coal production by the Friedrich Heinrich colliery, this route served to open up the coal area on the left bank of the Rhine. At first there was only the narrow-gauge railway to Rheinkamp built by the colliery , which was expanded to a standard- gauge railway in 1912.

Since the planned Oberhausen – Moers – Geldern railway line , which was supposed to pass the colliery to the south, was never realized due to the First World War, this colliery line already provided a freight rail connection for Kamp-Lintfort . The colliery, which was closed in 2012, was able to transport the coal from there to the Duisburg – Kleve Lower Rhine route and to Homberg to the Rhine Prussia port.

As a result of the closure of the Rheinpreußen 4 pits in 1964 and Rheinpreußen 5/9 1990 as well as the construction of the federal motorway 42 , the direct connection from the Lower Rhine route to the Rheinpreußen port at the level of the Rheinkamper train station was interrupted. The western section, coming from the Friedrich Heinrich colliery, can therefore only be approached via the northern curve that leads in the direction of the Rheinkamper Güterbahnhof.

The eastern section is therefore used as a works railway from the Ineos plant , which is located near the former colliery site (now the Eurotec technology park ), to the Rhine Prussia port.

The trackless section of the embankment with the second curve to the south to the Lower Rhine route, which runs parallel for a short distance between the federal motorway 42 and the L 287, is still there, so that the direct connection from Kamp-Lintfort to the Rhine Prussia port will be restored can.

In 1915, already during the First World War, the Moers – Lintfort – Kamp tram line was opened, which was also used as a freight tram for transporting coal. This tram was on the 1952 O-Bus mode changed, which existed until the 1968th

The level crossing with the Rheinberg – Moers – Hoerstgen-Sevelen railway line is secured by cover signals. There used to be an on-site signal box for this purpose, today (2013) they are remotely controlled from the Moers signal box.

Planning and trial operation

Press appointment at the first scheduled stop of the RB 31 at the Kamp-Lintfort Süd stop

The city of Kamp-Lintfort is committed to ensuring that the remaining tracks of the mine connection railway under the name Niederrheinbahn are used for local rail passenger transport (SPNV). The demand for a local rail connection is justified, among other things, with the foreign students of the Rhein-Waal University and also with many commuters in and around Kamp-Lintfort. The funds of around € 10 million (excluding electrification) were approved by the VRR at the end of October 2016; So that the project can be tackled legally, there is still no approval from the state parliament as a public transport law, but this is considered safe.

Since May 16, 2020, a trial, temporary shuttle service has been running on the existing route to the State Garden Show 2020 in Kamp-Lintfort on weekends and public holidays. A new track will then lead into the city and a terminal stop will be built there, which will also serve the university. Intermediate stops are then to be set up in Utfort - Eick and at the Pattberg slag in Repelen . The city of Kamp-Lintfort and the RATH Group from Düren founded Niederrheinbahn GmbH to take over the infrastructure. In May 2019, this company acquired the existing railway line between Kamp-Lintfort and Rheinkamp station, after which the entire infrastructure was renovated.

This connects the state horticultural show and the Kamp-Lintfort campus of the Rhein-Waal University of Applied Sciences . After the opening of the state horticultural show was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic , the weekend shuttle service started on May 16, 2020.

Maps

Falkplan Duisburg 1: 22500 2003 . Falk, Ostfildern 2002, ISBN 3-88445-117-0 .
Land surveying office of North Rhine-Westphalia (ed.): Kreiskarte Kreis Wesel 1: 50000 . 5th edition. 1991, ISBN 3-89439-578-8 .
Falk plan Moers / Neukirchen – Vluyn 1: 17500 . 7th edition. Falk, Munich, ISBN 3-88445-662-8 .