Gladbeck-Zweckel stop

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Gladbeck-Zweckel
Platforms, 2014
Platforms, 2014
Data
Operating point type Stop
( stop and junction )
Platform tracks 2
abbreviation EZK
(EGZW [formerly Hp Gladbeck-Zweckel])
IBNR 8002284
Price range 6th
opening May 1, 1905 (Abzw Zweckel)
Sep 24. 1967 (Hp Gladbeck-Zweckel)
location
City / municipality Gladbeck
Place / district Zweckel
country North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
Coordinates 51 ° 35 '20 "  N , 6 ° 59' 6"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 35 '20 "  N , 6 ° 59' 6"  E
Height ( SO ) 60  m above sea level NN
Railway lines
Railway stations in North Rhine-Westphalia
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Gladbeck-Zweckel is a railway stop in the Zweckel district of the North Rhine-Westphalian city ​​of Gladbeck . The operating point includes a breakpoint with a locally connected branch point . Until the 2010 timetable change, these were independent operating points as the Gladbeck-Zweckel stop and the Zweckel branch.

Location and structure

Outdoor area

The stop is at the junction of the VzG route 2236 ( Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck  - Winterswijk ) with the VzG route 2251 ( Gladbeck West  - Gladbeck-Zweckel). The latter is a single-track connecting curve to the VzG route 2250 ( Oberhausen-Osterfeld  - Hamm (Westf) Rbf ).

The next train sequence points are Gladbeck Ost and Gladbeck West in the south and Feldhausen in the north, the neighboring train registration points are Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck, Gladbeck West and Dorsten . The block signals to the south are 4101 from Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck) and 4103 from Gladbeck West. The northern block signals from the direction of Dorsten are 4102 ( regular track and 4104 ( opposite track ) immediately behind the Beethovenstraße overpass, which is also where the access to the stop is located. This has two side platforms, each 120 meters long and 38 centimeters high.

Signal box Abzw

Signal box Abzw, 2014

The Zweckel junction was monitored by the Abzw mechanical signal box from 1911 at 10.93 kilometers. In addition to the form signals and points , the Söllerstrasse level crossing north of the signal box was closed from here. The crossing was used for non-motorized individual traffic, the barriers have - otherwise rare - metal curtains as protection against creeping under and are operated with a hand crank. The signal box and the level crossing are registered as architectural monuments in the monument list of the city of Gladbeck .

The building has two floors, the upper floor with the signal box can be reached via an external staircase. The floor plan is rectangular, the corners are bevelled. The roof is designed as a flat roof and protrudes over the side walls as sun protection. The upper part of the outer walls probably consists of timber framework and is clad with natural slate (street side) and artificial slate panels; the lower part is clinkered . The lever bench comes from Scheidt & Bachmann , the block top and base come from Siemens . The lever bank had two turnout levers, three turnout bolts, four signal levers and a free space (formerly turnout lever). The levers were connected to the tensioning system on the ground floor via double wire cables , from where the wires to the respective switches and signals ran.

The signal box gained national recognition from the 1980s. A dispatcher doing duty there initially provided the windows with flower boxes. In the course of time, the officer and his colleagues decorated the signal box with more plants until it was surrounded by a veritable sea of ​​flowers. Various newspapers described the building as "Germany's most beautiful signal box". Not much of the former splendor has been preserved since the civil servants retired. The city of Gladbeck awarded the “flower signal box” with an environmental award and in 2001 included the building, including the barrier system operated from there, in the city's list of monuments.

In December 2018, the junction was connected to the Coesfeld ESTW and the Abzw signal box was closed. The barrier system was replaced by a modern system.

history

Branch of the connecting curve to Gladbeck West (right) from the Dutch-Westphalian Railway (left), next to it the Abzw signal box, 2014
Level crossing at Söllerstrasse, 2014
A train on the RB43 line to Dorsten, 2014

The line from Winterswijk to Bismarck went into operation on June 21, 1880 after around two years of construction. The route was owned by the Dutch-Westphalian Railway Company , the Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company was responsible for the management , and from 1882 to the Prussian State Railways . From 1889, the Prussian state also owned the route. After the nationalization, the section at Zweckel was initially under the control of the Royal Railway Directorate (KED) Elberfeld , and after several changes, from 1895 onwards to KED Essen .

At the height of the later junction there was a barrier post (post 8) for the first time . The connecting line to Gladbeck West went into operation at the same time as the Hamm-Osterfelder Bahn on May 1, 1905; in the first few years it was used exclusively for freight traffic. Two years after the connecting curve was put into operation, KED Essen expanded the Dutch-Westphalian route to two tracks. When the signal box went into operation in 1911, the level crossing was moved about 40 meters to the north and the post was abandoned.

Around this time, plans were circulating for a railway connection from Dortmund via Recklinghausen to Wesel . Since the potential neighboring communities endeavored to work out the optimal route for them, there were numerous route drafts. The Ruhr Coal District Settlement Association (SVR) took up one of these projects in the early 1920s and laid down the route as traffic band No. 32 in the general planning documents. The new line was to run from Dortmund, including the Hamm-Osterfelder Bahn, via Buer Nord , Zweckel and Kirchhellen to Friedrichsfeld . According to initial plans, the construction of a tower station was planned in Zweckel . At the instigation of the city of Buer, the SVR expanded the project one year later to include a connecting curve from Zweckel to Buer Nord (traffic line no. 32a). Subsequent objections by the city of Gladbeck were no longer taken into account. Towards the end of the 1920s, the city of Dortmund made another proposal. This envisaged the routing of the trains to Wesel via the existing Haltern-Venloer Bahn , so that it would have only required a three-kilometer new line between Lippramsdorf and Sinsen . After that, the project became quiet and there was no implementation.

Due to the effects of the war, the section from Zweckel to Feldhausen was only passable on a single track between 1945 and 1948. About 20 years later, the breakpoint went into operation on September 24, 1967. Thus, two years after the closure of the Vestische tram line 23 , Zweckel had a rail connection again.

Since the connection from Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck to Essen was discontinued in 1969, passenger traffic from Dorsten to Essen increasingly shifted to the connection via the connecting curve. In the mid-1980s , the German Federal Railroad took the six-lane expansion of Federal Motorway 2 as an opportunity to dismantle the section south of Zweckel on a track. The branch point was thus reduced to the size still available.

From 2011 onwards, the number of voices calling for the breakpoint to be expanded increased. The background to this is the station's lack of barrier-free access, which can only be accessed via stairs. In addition to the construction of ramps or elevators, the expansion plans also include the fastening of the platforms and their extension to a length of 170 meters. Since Deutsche Bahn repeatedly postponed the expansion, the city of Gladbeck implemented a provisional measure at the end of 2013 by paving a beaten path from Haydnstrasse to the train platform to the south. In February 2015, the decision was made to build a ramp on the second platform. Work on this started in May of the same year. With the completion of the construction work in September 2015, both platforms are now barrier-free.

traffic

The Dutch-Westphalian Railway was the only connection through Zweckel from 1880 to 1905. From 1905, individual freight trains used the new connecting curve to the Hamm-Osterfelder Bahn, which provided a direct connection to the western Ruhr area. From 1926 the curve was also used by passenger trains.

With the expansion of the Ruhr Schnellverkehr in 1938, the Deutsche Reichsbahn significantly expanded the timetable, around 50 passenger trains rolled past the junction every day, seven of which were train pairs on the connection to Gladbeck West. After 1941 the Reichsbahn stopped the Ruhr express traffic due to the war, the continuous connection via Gladbeck West to Essen fell victim to this measure.

When the connection from Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck to Essen was discontinued in 1969, north-south passenger traffic increasingly shifted from the Dutch-Westphalian route to the connecting curve, which continued to provide a direct connection with Essen. With the winter timetable in 1987, the German Federal Railroad introduced regular service on the two routes. The connection Borken - Dorsten - Abzw Zweckel - Gladbeck West - Bottrop Hbf was served hourly, with the trains running alternately to Essen Hbf and Oberhausen Hbf. On the other branch, local trains ran every two hours between Dorsten and Wanne-Eickel Hbf.

From 1998, the timetable was further expanded. The connection Borken - Essen was operated as an independent line RE14 every hour and extended to Velbert-Langenberg ; the Oberhausen trains were withdrawn as line RB44 to Dorsten and also ran every hour. Deutsche Bahn extended the trains on the new RB43 line to Wanne-Eickel Hbf to Dortmund Hbf . From 2006 the NordWestBahn took over the management of the lines RE14 and RB43. The RB44 was served by the Prignitzer Eisenbahn from 2002 , and the NordWestBahn has also been running here since 2010. In December 2015, DB Regio NRW took over management of the RB43 line. With the timetable change in December 2019, the RB44 line was discontinued, while the RE14 line in the Dorsten - Essen section was reduced to a half-hourly service.

From the stop there is a possibility to change to bus lines 254 and 257 of the Vestische trams , which can be used to reach the Gladbeck Oberhof bus station and Rentfort .

Timetable offer 2020
line course Tact operator
RE 14 Der Borkener :
Borken (Westf)  - Marbeck-Heiden  - Rhade  - Deuten  - Hervest-Dorsten  - Dorsten  - Feldhausen  - Gladbeck-Zweckel  - Gladbeck West  - Bottrop Hbf  - Essen-Borbeck  - Essen West  (only trains to / from Dorsten)  - Essen Main station  - Essen-Steele
temporary wing in Dorsten: second train part as RB 45 from / to Coesfeld
Status: timetable change December 2019 		60 min  (Borken - Dorsten)
30 min  (Dorsten - Essen) 		NordWestBahn
RB 43 Emschertal Railway :
Dorsten  - Feldhausen  - Gladbeck-Zweckel  - Gladbeck Ost  - Gelsenkirchen-Buer Süd  - Gelsenkirchen Zoo  - Wanne-Eickel Hbf  - Herne  - Herne-Börnig  - Castrop-Rauxel Süd  - Castrop-Rauxel-Merklinde  - Dortmund-Bövinghausen  - Dortmund -Lütgendortmund Nord  - Dortmund-Marten  - Dortmund-Huckarde Nord  - Dortmund Hbf
Status: timetable change December 2015 		60 min DB Regio NRW

Web links

Commons : Gladbeck-Zweckel stop  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ril 100.0002 - Abbreviations for localities ; As of January 15, 2014.
  2. ↑ Platform information at Gladbeck-Zweckel station. (No longer available online.) Deutsche Bahn AG, September 20, 2014, formerly in the original ; Retrieved November 27, 2014 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.deutschebahn.com  
  3. ^ André Joost: StellwerkArchiv Zweckel Abzw. In: NRWbahnarchiv. Retrieved November 27, 2014 .
  4. ↑ a b monuments. Association for local and local history Gladbeck / Westphalia, accessed on November 27, 2014 .
  5. ↑ Georg Meinert: Signal box Zweckel with old technology at its best. In: WAZ.de. December 27, 2012, accessed December 15, 2014 .
  6. ↑ Michael Bresgott: 100 years of the Zweckel signal box. In: WAZ.de. December 17, 2011, accessed December 15, 2014 .
  7. ↑ Connection of the routes Abzw. Zweckel - Dorsten - Maria-Veen and Dorsten - Borken to the ESTW Coesfeld / delays in the section Dorsten - Coesfeld. In: asm-muenster.de. Münsterland Rail Transport Association, accessed on April 22, 2019 .
  8. ^ Rolf Swoboda: Railway Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck - Winterswijk . Kenning Verlag, Nordhorn 1993, ISBN 3-927587-11-7 , p. 7-9 .
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  10. ^ Rolf Swoboda: Railway Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck - Winterswijk . Kenning Verlag, Nordhorn 1993, ISBN 3-927587-11-7 , p. 33 .
  11. ^ Rolf Swoboda: Railway Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck - Winterswijk . Kenning Verlag, Nordhorn 1993, ISBN 3-927587-11-7 , p. 34-35 .
  12. ^ A b Rolf Swoboda: Railway Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck - Winterswijk . Kenning Verlag, Nordhorn 1993, ISBN 3-927587-11-7 , p. 92-93 .
  13. ^ Rolf Swoboda: Railway Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck - Winterswijk . Kenning Verlag, Nordhorn 1993, ISBN 3-927587-11-7 , p. 80-83 .
  14. ↑ Klaus Oehlert-Schellberg: The Vestische trams . Kenning Verlag, Nordhorn 1995, ISBN 3-927587-49-4 , p. 95-97 .
  15. ^ André Joost: Route archive 2172 - Essen Hbf - Gelsenkirchen Zoo. Retrieved December 14, 2014 .
  16. ↑ Conversion begins in 2012. In: WAZ.de. April 27, 2011, accessed December 14, 2014 .
  17. ↑ Michael Bresgott: A 170-meter platform is mandatory ... In: WAZ.de. September 30, 2012, accessed December 14, 2014 .
  18. ^ Katrin Walger-Stolle: The city ​​bridges the time until the renovation with a temporary solution. In: WAZ.de. November 29, 2013, accessed December 14, 2014 .
  19. ↑ Ramp at Zweckel train station in Gladbeck is finally being built. In: WAZ.de. February 26, 2015, accessed May 23, 2015 .
  20. ^ Rolf Swoboda: Railway Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck - Winterswijk . Kenning Verlag, Nordhorn 1993, ISBN 3-927587-11-7 , p. 94 .
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  22. ^ Rolf Swoboda: Railway Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck - Winterswijk . Kenning Verlag, Nordhorn 1993, ISBN 3-927587-11-7 , p. 53-60 .
  23. ^ André Joost: Line information RE14. In: NRWbahnarchiv. Retrieved December 14, 2014 .
  24. ^ André Joost: Line information RB43. In: NRWbahnarchiv. Retrieved December 14, 2014 .
  25. ^ André Joost: Line information RB44. In: NRWbahnarchiv. Retrieved December 14, 2014 .
  26. ↑ NordWestBahn delivers RB43 “Emschertal-Bahn” to DB Regio NRW. Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr, December 8, 2015, accessed on December 13, 2015 .