Dortmund Railway

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Dortmund Railway GmbH

logo
legal form GmbH
founding 1899
Seat Dortmund
management Marcel de la Haye (Chairman), Dr. Roland Kitschler
Number of employees 151 (as of 2007)
sales € 29 million
Branch Rail transport
Website https://www.captrain.de/

The Dortmunder Eisenbahn GmbH (DE) is a private railway company from Dortmund . Dortmunder Eisenbahn GmbH is a joint subsidiary of Dortmunder Hafen GmbH and Captrain Deutschland GmbH . The Dortmund Railway has a public network of 50 kilometers of track and connects the former Dortmund steel sites of ThyssenKrupp Stahl AG, the Dortmund Union , Westfalenhütte , Phoenix and the Dortmund harbor. In addition, the railway company has more than 100 kilometers of non-public railway infrastructure, mainly in the ThyssenKrupp plants.

history

Container Terminal Dortmund

The origins of the Dortmund Railway lie in the inauguration of the Dortmund harbor . When the port opened in 1899, it was initially founded as a pure port railway. On July 1, 1907, the Dortmund small railway was also founded. In addition to the operation in the Dortmund harbor, the Dortmund railway took over transport services for the Dortmund coal and steel industry, especially Hoesch AG (see also: Hansabahn Dortmund HHW 6141 ). On January 1, 1980, the DE merged with the Hoesch-Werksbahn, which increased the amount of goods transported from 15.5 to 46 million tons annually. At that time, 82 locomotives, 1,810 freight cars and a route network of 238 kilometers were owned by the DE. With the subsequent decline of the steel industry, the vehicle fleet and the network again shrank significantly. With the commissioning of the Dortmund container terminal , which will be followed by a second in Dortmund Nord in 2016, the structural change is also evident in DE's freight traffic.

Shareholder

Since December 6, 1972, the railway company operated under the name Dortmunder Eisenbahn GmbH as a public railway company (EVU) owned by the Dortmunder Stadtwerke and the Dortmunder Hafen AG. On July 1, 2004 ThyssenKrupp AG got out of the Dortmunder Eisenbahn as a shareholder and the Connex Group (later renamed Veolia Verkehr and today Transdev GmbH ) became the main shareholder. At this point in time, the company was split into an EVU ( DE Transport GmbH ) and a railway infrastructure company ( DE Infrastruktur GmbH ). Since February 9, 2006, the EVU has had the current name of Dortmunder Eisenbahn GmbH . Veolia sold the entire freight transport division in 2009 to the freight transport division of SNCF , which the German subsidiary operates under the name Captrain Deutschland .

The EVU Dortmunder Eisenbahn GmbH is 65 percent owned by Captrain Deutschland GmbH and 35 percent of the shares are held by Dortmunder Hafen AG. DE Infrastruktur GmbH is 81 percent owned by Dortmunder Hafen AG and 19 percent by Captrain Deutschland GmbH.

Infrastructure

The Dortmund Railway network extends into the cities of Dortmund and Bochum. In Dortmund, Dortmund-Obereving is the transfer station to the DB Netz route network . The following connection points are mainly served in the Dortmund port area:

Freight transport

Diesel locomotive of the DE in the port of Dortmund

In external traffic, the Dortmund Railway regularly operates the routes departing from Dortmund and provides services in the Mülheim / Ruhr area (plant logistics) and Gladbeck (acetone and phenol transports). These are mainly the following relations:

  • Dortmund - Bremen (WeserPort)
  • Dortmund - Wilhelmshaven (JadeWeserPort)
  • Dortmund - Rotterdam
  • Dortmund - Duisburg
  • Dortmund - Emmelsum
  • Dortmund - Bochum
  • Dortmund - Hagen
  • Mülheim - Duisburg
  • Bochum - Duisburg
  • Duisburg - Millingen

It also operates hubs in the Duisburg-Wedau and Hagen Gbf train stations .

In addition to borrowed locomotives, DE has 23 of its own diesel locomotives and a further three shunting locomotives from the Captrain pool.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Stefan Högemann: The railway in the Dortmund ports . In: Bahn-Report . tape 33 , no. 195 , May 1, 2015, ISSN  0178-4528 , p. 5–10 ( Bahn Report [accessed on May 1, 2015]).
  2. ↑ See website of DE, History . Retrieved December 21, 2010.

Coordinates: 51 ° 31 '35.4 "  N , 7 ° 26' 52.1"  E