Railway line Zwolle – Stadskanaal

Zwolle - Stadskanaal
Route length:	106.7 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system :	Zwolle - Emmen: 1500 V  =
Top speed:	140 km / h
Legend Routes from Utrecht and Apeldoorn Route from Kampen 0.0 Zwolle Route to Arnhem Route to Almelo Soestwetering Route to Leeuwarden 4.0 Herfte-Veldhoek 8.1 Marshoek-Emmen 12.2 Dalfsen 14.3 More right 19.0 Vilsteren Route from Deventer Regge 23.1 Ommen 25.0 Sterkamp 28.5 Junne 29.9 Beerze Route from Almelo 33.9 Mariënberg 37.4 Bergentheim 40.0 Breaks Radewijker beek 42.3 Hardenberg 45.4 Baalder-Radewijk 47.9 Gramsbergen Overijsselse Vecht 50.0 De Haandrik Route from Gronau Lutterhoofdwijk 55.3 Coevorden 59.3 Dalen 62.9 Dalerveen Schoonebeek NAM Stieltjeskanaal Hoogeveense Vaart 66.2 Nieuw Amsterdam 70.0 Emmen Zuid 71.5 Emmen Bargeres Orange Canal 71.8 Zuidbarge AKZO Emmen 75.3 Emmen 76.1 78.5 Weerdinge 82.0 Valthe 86.9 Exloo 92.6 Buinen 95.0 Drouwen Route from Assen 100.0 Gasselternijveen 103.7 Tweede Dwarsdiep Route from Zuidbroek 106.7 Stadskanaal Route to Ter Apel Rijksgrens

The Zwolle - Stadskanaal railway is a railway line in the Netherlands. It was opened between 1903 and 1905 between Zwolle and Stadskanaal . The railway line was owned by the Noordoosterlocaalspoorweg-Maatschappij railway company .

Only the part between Zwolle and Emmen is still in operation. However, there are plans to reconnect the line in Emmen with Veendam station and then on towards Groningen . This route, as well as the one between Almelo station and Mariënberg station , is also called Vechtdallijnen .

history

Coevorden station, 1921

The railway line Zwolle - Stadskanaal was laid at the beginning of the 20th century by the NOLS. The Zwolle - Ommen section was commissioned on January 15, 1903, the Ommen - Hardenberg section followed on February 1, 1905, Gasselternijveen  - Stadskanaal on June 15, 1905, Hardenberg - Coevorden on July 1, 1905 and Coevorden - Gasselternijveen on January 1, 1905 November 1905. The section from Gasselternijven to Stadskanaal had already been prepared for a second track during construction . In 1922 the second track in this section went into operation.

Dalfsen station, 2001

After the NOLS was taken over by the Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS) in October 1938, this stopped all traffic on October 2, 1938 between Emmen - Gasselternijveen and on May 15, 1939 between Gasselternijveen and Stadskanaal. The plans of the State Railroad originally provided for passenger traffic on the routes of the former NOLS to be discontinued and individual sections, including ( Almelo  -) Coevorden  - Emmen, to be retained for freight traffic . During the Second World War , the section Gasselternijveen - Stadskanaal on May 25, 1940 and the section Emmen - Gasselternijveen from June 24, 1940 to November 24, 1940 were reopened for tourist traffic due to a shortage of fuel. Freight traffic took place again between August 4, 1941 and September 24, 1942. After the liberation of the Netherlands, passenger trains ran between Emmen and Gasselternijveen from July 26, 1945 to December 5, 1945. At that time, the line served as an alternative to the Meppel - Groningen line, which was closed due to the war . In July 1946 the NS shut down the section between Weerdinge and Buinen. On May 9, 1947, she stopped passenger traffic between Gasselternijveen and Stadskanaal.

In 1964, freight traffic between Gasselternijveen and Buinen ended, followed in May 1972 by the Emmen - Weerdinge and Gasselternijveen - Stadskanaal sections. On the other hand, there was an increase in freight traffic on the remaining route, in particular due to the oil field in Schoonebeek , which was connected in December 1946 via a seven-kilometer branch from Nieuw Amsterdam . In 1961 the Zwolle - Emmen line was converted into a main line. In 1980 the section from Hervte-Verhoeek to Dalfsen received the second track. Between 1985 and 1987 the line was extensively renovated and electrified with 1.5 kilovolt DC voltage , and the section from Mariënberg to Gramsbergen was expanded to double -track. The freight traffic on the branch line to Schoonebeek stopped the Nederlandse Spoorwegen in September 1996, in May 2000 the line was closed. In 2007 the provinces of Overijssel and Drenthe took over responsibility for the route from central government.

On February 23, 2016, a train collided with a mobile lifting platform near Dalfsen, killing the driver.

DM 90 in Emmen, 2001

The station buildings were designed by Eduard Cuypers . Although the Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS) replaced many old station buildings with smaller and more efficient structures in the 1960s and 1970s, a large part of the buildings on this route remained. The Emmen station building was replaced in 1965 by a more prominent and larger building. The one in Coevorden was replaced in 1976. The Emmen Bargeres stop was opened in 1975 and existed until 2011. It was replaced by the Emmen Zuid station. In the same year the Bergentheim train station was closed, the building of which was demolished in 1993.

business

A Vechtdallijnen train in Groningen, 2012

From 1993 trains of the series Stoptreinmaterieel '90 were used. From 2005 on, modernized Mat '64 drove . Trains from the Nederlandse Spoorwegen operate on the route . Regional transport on the route was put out to tender in 2007, from which Arriva emerged as the winner of the 15-year transport contract, and Arriva began operations in 2012. At Stadler Rail ordered Arriva 14  GTW , the first train was completed in June 2012 found. This brought improvements to the range of services, including more trains running in the evenings and on Sundays and public holidays.

Web links

• Martijn van Vulpen: Spoorlijn Zwolle - Stadskanaal. In: martijnvanvulpen.nl. Retrieved February 27, 2019 (Dutch). 

Individual evidence

1. ^ Noordoosterlocaalspoorweg-Maatschappij. In: nols-maatschappij.info. Retrieved May 22, 2012 (Dutch). 
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Martijn van Vulpen: Spoorlijn Zwolle - Stadskanaal. In: martijnvanvulpen.nl. Retrieved February 27, 2019 (Dutch). 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Overzicht van de spoorlijn Zwolle – Stadskanaal. In: stationsweb.nl. Retrieved February 27, 2019 (Dutch). 
4. ↑ Bouw van de NOLS. In: nols-maatschappij.info. May 13, 2017, Retrieved February 28, 2019 (Dutch). 
5. ^ De jaren 20 van de 20e eeuw, bloei van de economie en de opkomst van privé-vervoer. In: nols-maatschappij.info. April 27, 2017, Retrieved February 28, 2019 (Dutch). 
6. ↑ De jaren 30 van de 20e eeuw, dreiging algehele opheffing. In: nols-maatschappij.info. April 27, 2017, Retrieved February 28, 2019 (Dutch). 
7. ↑ De voormalige NOLS-lijnen tijdens de Second World War. In: nols-maatschappij.info. April 27, 2017, Retrieved February 28, 2019 (Dutch). 
8. ↑ De nieopbouw na de Tweede Wereldoorlog. In: nols-maatschappij.info. July 2, 2017, Retrieved February 28, 2019 (Dutch). 
9. ↑ ^{a b} De jaren 60 van 20e eeuw, afname van het vervoer per trein. In: nols-maatschappij.info. March 31, 2018, accessed February 28, 2019 (Dutch). 
10. ↑ De jaren 70 van de 20e eeuw. In: nols-maatschappij.info. April 27, 2017, Retrieved February 28, 2019 (Dutch). 
11. ^ Martijn van Vulpen: NAM-lijn Nieuw Amsterdam - Schoonebeek. In: martijnvanvulpen.nl. Retrieved February 27, 2019 (Dutch). 
12. ↑ Crash with a lifting platform. One dead in a train accident in the Netherlands. In: spiegel.de. Der Spiegel , February 23, 2016, accessed on February 28, 2019 . 
13. ↑ E. Cuypers. In: stationsweb.nl. Retrieved February 28, 2019 (Dutch). 
14. ↑ station Emmen. In: stationsweb.nl. Retrieved February 28, 2019 (Dutch). 
15. ^ Station Coevorden. In: stationsweb.nl. Retrieved February 28, 2019 (Dutch). 
16. ↑ station Emmen Bargeres. In: stationsweb.nl. Retrieved February 28, 2019 (Dutch). 
17. ↑ Jaren 00 van de 21e eeuw. In: nols-maatschappij.info. April 27, 2017, Retrieved February 28, 2019 (Dutch). 
18. ↑ Bergentheim station. In: stationsweb.nl. Retrieved February 28, 2019 (Dutch). 
19. ↑ Stadler: Roll-out of the first GTW for Vechtdallijnen (NL). In: eisenbahn-kurier.de. June 12, 2012, accessed May 19, 2013 . 
20. ↑ Blauwnet. Uitgevoerd door Arriva. In: arriva.nl. Retrieved February 27, 2019 (Dutch).