Essen-Überruhr – Bochum-Langendreer railway line
The Essen-Überruhr – Bochum-Langendreer railway line is now only partly used for railway operations in the Ruhr area .
Essen-Überruhr - Bochum-Dahlhausen
The Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft took over the Prinz-Wilhelm-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft in 1863 and connected its Wuppertal-Vohwinkel-Essen-Überruhr line via the new Ruhr Bridge with its own line at Steele station , which was completed in 1862, and continued to build the line Dahlhausen .
The resulting hub station had different names over the years: Königssteele, Steele Nord, Steele Hbf, and finally, since 1979, Essen-Steele Ost . Up until 1978, all trains on the Wuppertal-Vohwinkel - Velbert - Essen Hbf connection had to change direction.
In 1978 the German Federal Railroad took a direct connection curve (route 2193) from the Ruhr Bridge to Essen-Steele West station, and since then Essen-Steele station has been in operation. The old line ends in Steele Ost in the freight station, which has been located to the south since the renovation for the Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn , was still needed for demand freight trains and is now no longer passable, although it is still there.
At the Gleisdreieck in the eastern part of the Essen-Steele Ost train station, there was a 900-meter-long connection (route 2166) to the bypass, the so-called "U-Bahn", which connected the Ruhr Valley Railway directly with the route to Bochum. Also used by passenger trains for a few years in the post-war period , this track, which was otherwise intended for freight trains, was finally abandoned in the 1990s.
On the Wuppertal-Vohwinkel - Velbert - Essen route, from the timetable change in December 2019, the S 9 and RE 49 lines will travel the Essen-Überruhr to Essen-Steele section. The S-Bahn line S 3 to Hattingen runs along the Essen-Steele Ost section to Bochum-Dahlhausen . As part of the remodeling for the Rhine-Ruhr Express this connection is height-free expanded so that the Streckengleis Dahlhausen - Essen-Steele Ost passes under the route of the line S1.
Bochum-Dahlhausen - Bochum-Langendreer
Hasenwinkel coal way
The Hasenwinkeler Kohlenweg was a coal collecting railway for goods traffic in Bochum . Since the early days of Ruhr mining, various coal mines had moved their products on their route through the Neveltal for further transport to the Ruhr . The railway line emerged from a horse-drawn tram from the Sonnenschein and Hasenwinkel collieries . In 1811, the Gute Hoffnung smelter supplied cast-iron rails and trams for a line of tracks known as the “English coal railway”.
The opening of the Ruhr Valley Railway of the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (BME) in 1863 prompted the mines to convert their own line into a standard-gauge railway by 1865 and to introduce it to Dahlhausen station , then to extend it to Laer station from 1868 . From its handover on October 10, 1870, it served the Dannenbaum and Julius Philipp collieries . From the Langendreer station of the BME to the Vollmond colliery , a connecting line went into operation in 1861, to which the new line could connect.
The Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft took over the line in 1870. The Weitmar station , opened in 1875, served the mines Prinz Regent , Carl Friedrich Erbstollen and Vereinigte General & Erbstollen . In addition, from 1884, when the Prussian State Railways took over the two previous competing companies, a new line from the Bochum Nord station of the Rhenish Railway Company flowed into Weitmar station . In 1894, the only railway tunnel in Bochum was opened with the siding to the Friedlicher Nachbar colliery , which with a length of 350 meters created a connection between Nevel and Deimketal in an arc under Hattinger Straße.
Opelbahn
The end of the Ruhr mining industry led to the closure of the line between Dahlhausen and Weitmar in 1969. Until 1979, around two kilometers of the track from Dahlhausen continued to be operated as a station track for the Wolff company in Bochum-Linden , i.e. under simplified operational conditions.
When Adam Opel AG settled in Bochum in 1960, the section between the Weitmar, Laer and Langendreer stations was adapted for the needs of the Opel factory Ⅰ , on the site of the former Dannenbaum colliery, and its own works railway . The power plant in Weitmar supplied u. a. Opel with energy, was still supplied with coal from Langendreer in 1984, then from Bochum Nord train station until 1996. The section between Laer and Weitmar only served as a reserve line, with which the connection of the Opel plant Ⅰ to the other parts of the plant , the Langendreer station and the public rail network should be guaranteed at all times.
Bike and hiking trail
The route of the Hasenwinkel coal route between Dahlhausen and Hattinger Strasse not far from the Schlosspark Haus Weitmar was converted into a cycle and hiking route after 1979 . The older, originally only gravel, surfaces of the cycle path have been renewed with an asphalt surface by 2019 . A short section of track was preserved as a demonstration object. The tunnel to the former Friedlicher Nachbar colliery was filled in in 2000 due to an acute danger of collapse. The keystone of one of the two tunnel portals has since been in the Dahlhausen Railway Museum .
The short section between Haus Weitmar and the west head of Weitmar train station, crossed by Hattinger Straße and Franziskusstraße, fell into disrepair after 1969 and remained impassable until 2017.
In 1999 the Weitmar freight yard was completely shut down. The Springorum cycle path was built on the route to Bochum North from 2013 . Weitmar station has been built over with a housing estate on An der Holtbrügge since 2016, and the Springorum cycle path runs past it north. With the help of the Erzbahn , the Springorum-Bahn and the Hasenwinkeler Kohlenweg, it is possible to cross the entire city of Bochum with the exception of the inner city area in a north-south direction on former railway lines.
The tracks between the Laer and Weitmar stations have been dismantled. The route in the area west of the Laer train station is partly built over by the A448 motorway (Opelquerspange).
At the end of 2000, the line from the Langendreer freight yard to Laer was converted into a station track. After the closure of the Opel plant Ⅰ, parts of it will still be held for the Laer substation of the electricity network operators Amprion and Westnetz , succeeding the companies RWE and VEW .
literature
- Harald Vogelsang: The Bochum-Dahlhausen depot . Verlag Eisenbahn-Kurier, Freiburg 1988, ISBN 3-88255-430-4 .
Web links
NRWbahnarchiv by André Joost:
- Description of route 2165 : Essen-Überruhr ↔ Bochum-Langendreer
- Description of the route 2166 : Essen-Steele Ost, turnout 81 ↔ turnout 92
- Description of the route 2167 : Abzw Bochum-Dahlhausen Bez West ↔ Bochum-Dahlhausen train station
Deutsche Bahn AG:
- Description of Langendreer train station (PDF file; 310 kB)
Railroad cycling by Dr. Achim Bartoschek:
Individual evidence
- ↑ DB Netze - Infrastructure Register
- ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .
- ↑ Gerhard Knospe: Works Railways in German Coal Mining and Its Steam Locomotives, Part 1 - Data, facts, sources . 1st edition. Self-published, Heiligenhaus 2018, ISBN 978-3-9819784-0-7 , p. 686 .
- ↑ Mining history educational trail in Dahlhausen: Plate 24, coal collecting railway "Hasenwinkeler Kohlenweg" Location: Am Sattelgut, confluence of the street Krampenhof. In: Bergmann's Table Bochum South. Retrieved July 16, 2019 .
- ↑ Stadtwerke build a new substation in Laer. Stadtwerke Bochum GmbH, February 7, 2019, archived from the original on July 16, 2019 ; accessed on July 16, 2019 .