Dülken – Brüggen railway line
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| Route number : | 2513 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course book section (DB) : | ex 246a | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 14.7 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Dülken – Brüggen railway was a single-track branch line that connected the Dülken district of Viersen with the municipality of Brüggen . The railway line was popularly called Brüggener Klimp .
history
The railway line opened on October 1, 1890.
Passenger traffic ceased in 1966. In 1975 freight traffic was also stopped on the Waldniel –Brüggen section ; this section was closed on September 28, 1984. The last freight customer on the remainder of the route was the Roesler Draht company (today Betafence ) in Waldniel. The Dülken – Waldniel section was shut down on May 7, 1998 by the Federal Railway Authority and redesigned.
In the 1980s, a Schwalmtalbahn interest group made efforts to operate a museum train on the railway line. Uerdingen rail buses were parked in Amern station. However, since the remaining tracks were dismantled very quickly, such an operation could not be realized.
Since June 2014, the Alleenbahnradroute has been on the former route as part of the BahnRadweg Kreis Viersen . Between Waldniel and Amern there has been a cycle path alongside the route for some time.
course
The route began in Dülken. From there it branched off from the railway line from Viersen to Venlo . Shortly after the train station, you cross Bücklerstrasse. After a large arch and a few level crossings, the Dülken West stop was reached. The breakpoint was only built in 1957. The railway then stops directly at Waldniel . Shortly before the station, the Roesler Draht siding swings into the station area. After leaving the Waldniel train station , it went downhill to the Kranenbach. This was crossed directly behind the level crossing . From there, the route was winding and past some homesteads. A siding to the Roesler Draht company also branched off in the Amern station area . These were two different production sites. The Uerdingen rail buses were parked in the siding. Behind the station, a street was under and the Kranenbach crossed again. After leaving a small forest area, the Born stop was reached. From then on the route ran straight to the underpass of Brüggener Straße . Shortly before the station area there was still a siding from the Laumans company. Particularly noteworthy is the Kaldenkirchen – Brüggen small railway , which is also standard- gauge , and which came from Kaldenkirchen via Bracht and Oebel to the Brüggen train station and still had no connection to the Klimp standard-gauge line . The missing connection led to the suspension of passenger traffic on the small railroad in 1930 ; freight trains ran between Kaldenkirchen and Oebel until 1964.
meaning
The line was built primarily to transport roof tiles and clay pipes from Brüggen as well as for steel fences from Amern and Waldniel. In addition, potatoes and beets from neighboring farmers were loaded from the loading street in Waldniel. There were special potato trains that took the trains from Waldniel with steam locomotives and brought them to Mönchengladbach . The railway line made it possible to transport the aforementioned clay pipes and roof tiles from Brüggen quickly and in large quantities. Some brickworks in and around Brüggen still bear witness to this time. When the railroad was replaced by trucks in the post-war period, the route became increasingly unprofitable until it was finally closed.
Passenger traffic played only a minor role on this route. In 1963 ten pairs of trains ran. The trains ran continuously to Viersen, rail buses were used. The larger cities could be reached more quickly by car and bus.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Achim Bartoschek: Railroad cycling: (Viersen-Dülken -) Schwalmtal-Waldniel - Brüggen. Retrieved August 14, 2018 .
literature
- Thomas Barthels, Armin Möller, Klaus Barthels: Railways on the Lower Rhine . Barthels, Mönchengladbach 2007, ISBN 978-3-9810183-3-2 .
Web links
- Timetable and course book from 1944 by Peter Köker
- Line 2513 (Dülken – Brüggen) in the NRWbahnarchiv by André Joost
