Kray-Wanner Railway

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Course of the Kray-Wanner Railway

The Kray-Wanner-Bahn is a former railway line in the heart of the Ruhr area between Herne-Wanne and Essen-Kray . Today the railway line serves as a cycle path and connects the ore railway line with the Zollvereinweg .

history

The railway line was opened in 1874 by the Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft as a freight train route between their Kray station on the Rhenish Ruhr area line and Wanne station, which at the time was the most important railway junction of the Cöln-Mindener Railway Company in the northern Ruhr area.

The last kilometers of the line ran parallel to the main line of the Cologne-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft and served to connect the mines Bonifacius , Rheinelbe , Alma , Pluto and Königsgrube to the network of the Rheinische Eisenbahn and was also known as the Bonifacius-Wanner Railway . To the east of the Rheinelbe stockpile , the Gelsenkirchen Hbf – Gelsenkirchen-Wattenscheid freight line was crossed.

After only 15 years of operation, the line was abandoned by the Prussian State Railways shortly after the nationalization of the nominally private railway companies in 1889, but initially not dismantled, but leased to the mines on the line as a connection railway. From then on, the railway line was used by the United Rheinelbe & Alma colliery, the Vereinigte Stahlwerke AG and the Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks-AG .

After the Zollverein coking plant was closed in 1993, the Kray-Wanner-Bahn was finally no longer needed. It was converted into an approximately five kilometer long cycle path, which today connects the Erzbahntrasse with the Zollvereinweg away from motorized traffic.

In 2012, the route from the connection to the Erzbahntrasse (city limits Gelsenkirchen / Herne) to Krayer Strasse (Gelsenkirchen) was paved throughout.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Erzbahntrasse and Kray-Wanner-Bahn asphalted" , ADFC Bochum, accessed on May 24, 2012