Dortmund freight bypass

Route number (DB) :

2132 (Nette – Scharnhorst)
2123 (Huckarde – Deusen)

Course book section (DB) :

%

Route length:

12 km or 4 km

Gauge :

1435 mm ( standard gauge )

Power system :

15 kV 16.7 Hz ~

Top speed:

100 km / h

State:

North Rhine-Westphalia

Legend

	Main line from Hamm
11.9	Dortmund Airport
11.1	Dortmund-Scharnhorst station
	Main line to Dortmund Hbf
10.0	Abzw Scharnhorst
	Route from Lünen
(2.4)	Dortmund - Kirchderne
	Dortmund-Kirchderne junction
		(Link 2102)
(0.0) 6.7 (0.0) (1.1)	Dortmund-Obereving
		(formerly connecting line 2101)
(0.0)	Dortmund - Eving
	Route to Dortmund Hbf
(0.7)	Dortmund - Lindenhorst
(1.0)	Anst Dortmund harbor
4.1	BÜ Lindenhorster Strasse
3.9	EÜ Fürst-Hardenberg-Allee
(2.3)	Initially the Fürst Hardenberg mine
	Dortmund-Ems Canal
(4.3)	Line from Dortmund Hbf
(1.9)	Dortmund Gbf
(−0.5)	Abzw Hansa
2.1 (3.9)	Abzw Deusen
1.5	BÜ trunk road
0.3	Some nice ones
	Route to Dortmund-Mengede
(2.9)	Stadtbahn Dortmund (same level)
	Line from Dortmund-Dorstfeld
(1.8)	Buschstrasse junction
	former route to Dortmund-Rahm
	S-Bahn to Dortmund-Mengede
	former route to Herne

The Dortmund freight bypass is a railway line in the north of the city of Dortmund that is used almost exclusively for freight traffic. Freight trains passing Dortmund are routed past the main train station via this bypass , which avoids disrupting passenger traffic and endangering the city center from accidents involving dangerous goods .

Mengede – Scharnhorst route

In 1903 the Prussian State Railway opened the double-track line to Dortmund-Scharnhorst station from the beginning . It threads about 2500 m southwest of the Dortmund-Mengede train station at the Nice junction from the main line of the former Cologne – Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft , which is currently used extensively in local rail transport.

At the Deusen junction , on the one hand, it meets the disused connection line to the former Dortmund freight station, which is located immediately to the north parallel to the current Duisburg – Dortmund line . On the other hand, it meets the connection route to the Buschstraße junction on the route of the former Royal-Westphalian Emschertal Railway from Dortmund Bodelschwingh to Dortmund-Huckarde Süd, which is now used by the S-Bahn line S2 of the S-Bahn Rhein-Ruhr, which is described in more detail in the following section .

From there it runs through the rural north of the city of Dortmund, initially in the immediate vicinity of the former Fürst Hardenberg colliery towards Obereving. There is the only freight yard still operated by Railion in Dortmund , which serves as a transfer station to the Dortmund port railway and for other transfer trips in the area. However, the drainage mountain on its western head is closed. In the immediate vicinity to the south there is a freight yard of the Dortmund Railway , which also operates the traffic in the Westfalenhütte and on the port railway. Two connecting curves to the Dortmund – Enschede railway line and two lines to the port and to the Fürst Hardenberg colliery branch off here, and these are described in more detail below.

Threading of the freight bypass in the Scharnhorst station

Dortmund-Scharnhorst freight yard

Drain mountain at the Dortmund-Scharnhorst freight yard

The Dortmund-Scharnhorst train station is finally reached via the Westfalenhütte plant and along the southern edge of Scharnhorst , which between 1928 and 1986 was called "Dortmund Airport" after the neighboring Brackel airfield .

The line has been electrified since 1963 (Nette – Obereving) and 1965 (Obereving – Scharnhorst). It is still used extensively in regional and - especially on weekends because of the shutdown of the Hamm-Osterfelder Bahn - in national freight traffic. It also serves as a diversion route for passenger traffic in the event of line closures in the Dortmund Hbf area. In 2006 and 2008 - due to construction sites in the area of the main station - all passenger traffic between Wanne-Eickel or Dortmund main station and Hamm was diverted via Dortmund-Obereving on several weekends.

Bridge renewal in July 2008

In 2008 and 2009, the bridge over the Dortmund-Ems Canal was completely renewed and raised due to subsidence , for this reason the route west of Obereving was temporarily closed. The supraregional freight traffic was widely diverted, the regional freight traffic drove via Scharnhorst and from there partly through the Dortmund main station, which, apart from short-term line closures, was used for the first time since the opening of the bypass route for scheduled freight traffic. By underpassing the new Lindenhorster bypass road, the level crossing on Lindenhorster Strasse became superfluous and closed in autumn 2008, with only one possible intersection for pedestrians.

Huckarde Süd – Deusen route

Crossing of the freight bypass line with the U47 light rail line

With a length of just 2.3 kilometers, the connecting line from the Deusen junction to the Buschstraße junction is one of the shortest railway lines in Dortmund. It was built in 1942 to create a direct connection between the bypass line and its stations in the north of Dortmund's urban area, which are so important for freight traffic, to the stations in the south-west of Dortmund.

The connecting line led directly to the Dortmund - Huckarde Süd freight yard , which is now only used as a connection for several lines , which was opened in 1878 together with the Dortmund Süd - Bodelschwingh of the Royal Westphalian Railway Company , and to Rahm on the Duisburg-Ruhrort-Dortmund line .

In 1965, the line from Huckarde Süd to Deusen was electrified, three years later, however, the two remaining branches to Rahm and Bodelschwingh were closed, which meant that the Buschstraße junction could be closed.

With the conversion to the S-Bahn line from Dortmund-Huckarde to Dortmund-Mengede, it was re-established in 1986. Here, however, only one switch is laid, so that trains from the direction of Deusen have to run from the junction to the Huckarde Süd station on the left track, i.e. against the actual direction of travel. Shortly after the junction, the track splits, the rest of the route has two tracks.

About 1.2 kilometers further, there is another special feature: Here the freight line crosses the U47 line of the Dortmund Stadtbahn at ground level , both lines being electrified with different power systems. A gatekeeper is responsible for securing the train journeys on both routes; when the train is traveling, the light rail is prevented from crossing the freight train route with signals and barriers. In order to avoid disruptions, the overhead line above the track that is not used is also switched off. For a long time, consideration has been given to leaving this intersection open and building an overpass or underpass for the tram route, but such a construction measure is currently not specifically planned.

After crossing Emscherallee, the site of the former Hansa coking plant is passed before the route joins the route from Mengede to Obereving at the Deusen junction. Despite the electrification, the route does not play a prominent role in freight transport, many trains take the detour via Wanne-Eickel from or in the direction of Bochum or Witten, only a few train journeys per day pass this route. In the current timetable (autumn 2016) these are the RLG trips on Mon and Wed from Neheim Hüsten to Thu. Obereving and back, as well as once a day Captrain from Do Obereving to Do Dorstfeld. Both are planned services with diesel locomotives, electric locomotive coverings do not occur according to plan, despite overhead lines. These trips take place between 4 p.m. and 10 p.m. Post 3 (securing DB and DSW21 route) is manned Monday and Wednesday from 1.30pm to 10pm and Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 1.30pm to 8pm, not at all on the weekend. In addition, shifts are set if necessary, e.g. B. at construction sites and associated diversions.

Sidings and connecting curves

As already mentioned above, in addition to the Dortmund-Obereving freight station, which is located in the immediate vicinity, several connecting curves and tracks to industrial connections close off. The Dortmund – Enschede railway line could be reached from here both north and south:

Shortly after the construction of the line, a connecting curve from Obereving to the south to Eving station was built in 1906. This curve branches off at the eastern head of the station in a westerly direction, so it runs parallel along the entire station until it branches off to the south and initially crosses under the adjoining Dortmund railroad freight station. After 2.2 km, the Eving train station is reached, and when it was closed in 2003, this curve, which was electrified in 1968, ceased to operate.

A 2.3 km long connecting curve to the Kirchderne junction , on the other hand, branches off at the western head of the station in a north-easterly direction and is still in operation today for freight traffic in the direction of Lünen and as a diversion for the Hamm-Osterfelder Bahn. This curve was only opened in 1942, after the war damage in the city of Dortmund , passenger traffic was also handled here. In 1967 this connecting curve was also electrified.

The connecting line to the Zeche Fürst Hardenberg was also classified as a branch line , it ran from Obereving north parallel to the main line in a westerly direction to Eving to the transfer station of the colliery railway , which it reached after 2.3 km. When the colliery was closed, this line was also closed in the 1960s.

The track from Obereving station in the direction of the harbor was also classified as a branch line. This branches off to the south at the western head of the station and then runs parallel to the track of the port railway to Lindenhorst, where there is a switch connection to the port railway in the direction of the city harbor . Until a few years ago, the siding of a metalworking company was about halfway there. From the junction to the port railway, the track continues to Lindenhorster Straße. The connecting line to the former waste dump in Ellinghausen , where Ikea's European distribution center (Dortmund) was built in recent years , is directly connected to this . Here, too, a port railway track runs parallel to the Hardenberghafen up to the property line. The line to the Dortmund-Hafen junction was legally converted into a station track in 1967 with the closure of the former freight yard in Lindenhorst.

Furthermore, a siding leads to the northeast to a cement works, which is located on the site of the former Westfalenhütte . This branches off from the connecting curve to Kirchderne.

At the Deusen junction, a connecting curve branched off in addition to the two routes mentioned above:

To the south, the Dortmund freight yard near the main train station and the depot located there were connected. The 3.5 km long curve was opened in 1905 shortly after the route from Nette to Scharnhorst, and in 1910 the Prussian State Railroad, as operator, built a second track. In 1963 the curve was electrified together with the "main line" of the freight bypass, but in the following decades the volume of freight traffic fell. In 1990 the second track was dismantled as far as the Hansa junction; with the shutdown of traffic to and from the freight station in 2001, this line, along with others, became superfluous and finally closed in 2004.

Web links

Commons : Güterumgehungsbahn Dortmund - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

NRWbahnarchiv by André Joost:

Description of route 2132 : Abzw Nette ↔ Dortmund-Scharnhorst

western connecting lines:

Description of line 2123 : Dortmund-Huckarde Süd ↔ Abzw Deusen
Description of route 2131 : Abzw Deusen ↔ Dortmund Gbf
Description of route 2133 : Abzw Hansa ↔ Dortmund Gbf / Hbf

Eastern connecting lines:

Description of the route 2101 : Dortmund-Eving ↔ Dortmund-Obereving
Description of route 2102 : Dortmund-Obereving ↔ Abzw Dortmund-Kirchderne

Branch lines:

Description of route 2104 : Dortmund-Obereving ↔ Dortmund Hafen
Description of the route 2105 : Dortmund-Obereving ↔ Anst Fürst Hardenberg