Emmelsum circular railway and port railway

Emmelsum circular railway and port railway
Track 2 east of the Kreisbahn (right) on the Wesel-Datteln Canal, in the background the bridge of the VzG line 2270 (Oberhausen Hbf - Emmerich border), 2018
Route length:	13 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Route class :	D4
Maximum slope :	6.7  ‰
Minimum radius :	140 m
Top speed:	15 km / h
State (D):	North Rhine-Westphalia
Legend 5.30 Hünxe industrial area NA tank farm (formerly Übf BP refinery ) 4.12 Hünxe / Voerde border (Lower Rhine) Hans-Richter-Strasse / K 12 Marshalling group east 2.30 1.75 Hindenburgstrasse / B 8 Oberhausen Hbf - Emmerich border Frankfurter Strasse / L 396 0.80 0.00 0.00 25.00 Spellen to Walsum NA Kreyenberg Bühlstrasse / K 12 1.00 NA Becker NA Elsinghorst Shunting group west Weseler Street NA Trimet Voerde NA Terminal Contargo 3.50 NA Sappi / Jerich NA container area north quay

The Emmelsum district railway and port railway is an industrial trunk line located in the Wesel district . It runs along the south bank of the Wesel-Datteln Canal and connects commercial operations in Voerde (Lower Rhine) , the Bucholtwelmen commercial area in Hünx and the Emmelsum port with the DB Netz route network . The eastern main track was built to connect the Ruhr refinery of BP and was later extended to the west. In 1985 BP closed the refinery in Hünxe, after the other connections were closed, the east branch has been closed since 2005.

Route description

Connection border in Spellen train station (Niederrhein), 2018

The main track comprises a shorter west and a longer east section as well as the connection to the DB Netz route network. The feeder track (track 1) begins at the Spellen train station (Niederrhein) in the  25,000 (= 0.000) kilometer of the VzG route 2271 ( Oberhausen Hbf  - Wesel ). The infrastructure boundary is marked by a board. The track initially runs parallel to the former Spellen - Wesel track and turns to the east of the Wesel-Datteln Canal behind the Böskenstrasse overpass. At km 0.77, the west branch branches off in the opposite direction (track 2 west). The main track now runs as track 2 east parallel to the canal towards Hünxe. It ends after about 5.5 kilometers in the Bucholtwelmen industrial park on the former refinery site. The double-track shunting group east for changing the direction of travel was located between the overpasses at Hindenburgstrasse and Hans-Richter-Strasse . The line branch is closed from kilometer 2.3, guard maintenance discs are set up on both sides of the track .

The western branch initially leaves the canal in a south-westerly direction at a short distance from Böskenstrasse. The three-track West shunting group is located between the Bühlstrasse and Weseler Strasse level crossings . The track continues to bypass the site of the Voerde aluminum smelter and from the south reaches Schleusenstrasse on the east side. After around 3.6 kilometers, the western branch of the circular path ends at the connections to the Emmelsum port . The three connections to the Westkai (Terminal Contargo), Ostkai (Terminal Sappi / Jerich) and Nordkai (container area Nordkai) are combined as the Emmelsum port railway , so they are a single secondary connection. There are also four other extension lines with current controls.

The greatest gradient on track 1 is 6.7 per thousand, on all other tracks a maximum of 2.5 per thousand. The smallest radius of 140 meters is in the secondary connection container area Nordkai on the west branch. All points are set in place . Vehicle movements take place as a shunting drive , the maximum speed is 15 km / h. The total length of the track system is about 13 kilometers, the usable length about nine kilometers.

history

Transport volume 2000–2011

year	metric tons
2000	480,980
2001	464.420
2002	543.236
2003	538.749
2004	600.195
2005	668.478
2006	782.827
2007	920.988
2008	910.921
2009	736.460
2010	822.082
2011	840.083

The Oberhausen - Wesel line had been interrupted between Spellen and Wesel since the canal bridge over the Wesel-Datteln Canal was destroyed in the spring of 1945. In 1960, BP's Ruhr refinery went into operation on the former Bucholtwelmen military training area . At the same time, the district of Dinslaken built the 4.2 kilometer long eastern trunk line. The Essen Federal Railway Directorate also put the section between kilometer 24.0 (old Spellen station) and kilometer 25.0 back into operation. On May 30, 1960, the Minister of Economics of North Rhine-Westphalia , Hans Lauscher , sent the first train on the line. The management was initially the responsibility of the Deutsche Bundesbahn . The west branch went into operation in 1970.

The formerly independent company Kreisbahn Dinslaken was transferred in 1995 as a new branch of the company to the port of Emmelsum in the Wesel district . When DeltaPort was founded , the following picture of the owner can be found: The Kreisbahn is owned by the Wesel district, the owner of the Hafenbahn is DeltaPort, which is also responsible for the technical management of the entire main track. In order to improve the connection from the north, a connection to the Oberhausen - Emmerich line is planned.

East branch

The BP refinery was by far the largest branch. In 1985, the last year of operation of the refinery, the secondary connection comprised two entry tracks, four loading tracks, four exit tracks, three sidings, two so-called bitumen tracks and a transfer track. There were also two loading tracks for liquefied gas , a sulfur track, a track for cleaning the tank wagons and nine scales . The refinery had five internal combustion locomotives of the type MaK 240 B , as the steam locomotives of the Federal Railroad were not allowed to enter the plant. In 1965, BP announced a daily output of 100–150 tank wagons, corresponding to around 300,000–500,000 tons per year. With the connection of the refinery and the Wesel oil port to the pipelines of the Nord-West-Oelleitung and the Rhein-Main-Rohrleitungstransportgesellschaft at the end of the 1960s and the beginning of the 1970s, the percentage share of the railways fell. The refinery manufactured block trains ran to Hamburg-Waltershof , Hanover-Linden Hafen , Seelze Rbf and Kassel-Bettenhausen , among others . Single cars were moved to the Oberhausen West train station and mainly went to the chemical parks in Marl and Dormagen . In 1980, the transfer group recorded 40,219 tons in the entrance and 675,729 tons in the exit. In January 1983, BP stopped processing crude oil in Hünxe, and the refinery closed at the end of 1985. Up until 1991, around 10,000 tons of anti-knock agents were still running on the railway to Hünxe. From 1992 the site was still used as a tank farm , and since then it has been serviced by road. In addition to the Ruhr refinery, there were five other adjacent connections on the east branch, including a branch of the Grillo works .

In 1996 the Wesel district took over the main track of the former BP connection, which was 1.1 kilometers in length, and had it repaired. Thus there was a connection to the Hünxe industrial and commercial park, which was being built on the site of the former refinery. The district expects an expansion of the operation through further connections in the area. The eastern section has been closed since 2005, the track was initially passable up to kilometer 1.75, later up to kilometer 2.30.

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  Sh 2 discs at km 2.30 in platform 2 east, 2018

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  Shunting group east in the blocked section, 2018

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  Overbuilt main track on the east branch, 2018

West branch

The older connections on the west branch include the Voerde aluminum works (today: Trimet Aluminum ) and the Kreyenberg connection. The aluminum plant went into operation in 1971 after the US company Kaiser Aluminum decided to settle in Germany. The operator was Kaiser-Preussag Aluminum (KAPAL). Along with the start-up of the plant, the east quay of the Emmelsum port went into operation on May 30, 1971. The official opening of the West Quay and the entire port took place a year later on May 20, 1972 by North Rhine-Westphalia's Interior Minister Willi Weyer . During the construction, the West Shunting Group received tracks up to 650 meters long, as KAPAL initially intended to have clay delivered as a raw material by rail. In the exit there were aluminum slabs that were sent to the rolling mill in Koblenz-Lützel . In the early 1990s, the connection was not served. The connection is served several times a week by the Brohl Valley narrow-gauge railway to and from Koblenz-Lützel .

Today's Kreyenberg connection went into operation in 1970 by Pintsch Bamag AG , but was transferred to Klöckner-Humboldt-Deutz that same year . KHD set up a production facility for the manufacture of marine engines on the site west of Bühlstrasse with two branch connections. At the end of the 1980s, the southern connection was already idle. In 1991, KHD sold the site to a Voerder waste disposal company. The company had a Köf II (no. 6784) as there were no other traffic on the circular route at that time, so the company picked up its wagons from Spellen. In 1994 a private person acquired the site and left the management of the operations to the Wesel-Datteln-Kanal Umschlagsgesellschaft, including handling raw sugar . The south connection was dismantled at the end of the 1990s.

The transhipment point of the Austrian paper manufacturer KNP-Leykam (from 1998: Sappi ) went into operation on the Westkai in 1995 . Cellulose is imported and high-quality paper is exported. The material is transported to and from Rotterdam by barge . In 2003 the connection was lengthened by 150 meters twice. In 2005 the branch connection Nordkai went into operation, in 2010 a third track at the connection Westkai. Sappi is usually served with two block trains per day. Since 2017, the Dortmunder Eisenbahn has also been serving the Nordkai for handling containers from and to Dortmund-Obereving .

Other connections include the Elsinghorst and Becker companies at the level of the shunting group West. Around 1970 there was another connection at Gehrstraße.

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  Auxiliary connection Kreyenberg, track 2 west and track 1 (from left to right), 2018

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  West exit from the shunting group West, 2018

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  Side connection of the Emmelsum port railway with access to the Ostkai (left) and Nordkai (right) terminals, 2018

literature

• Heinrich Wuwer: 100 years of Hochbahn. The railway line Oberhausen - Hamborn - Walsum - Möllen - Spellen - Wesel . Ed .: Heimatverein Voerde. Voerde 2013.

Web links

Commons : Kreisbahn und Hafenbahn Emmelsum  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

literature

1. ↑ DeltaPort (Ed.): Joint instructions for the railway service of the connecting railway to the port of Emmelsum (Kreisbahn and Hafenbahn Emmelsum) - operating instructions . June 1, 2018, p. 5-7 ( deltaport.de ).
2. ↑ ^{a b} Own operation Kreis Wesel - Kreisbahn. In: Kreis-wesel.de. Retrieved July 25, 2018 . 
3. ^ Port of Emmelsum. In: Kreis-wesel.de. Retrieved July 26, 2018 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b} Heinrich Wuwer: 100 years of elevated railway. The railway line Oberhausen - Hamborn - Walsum - Möllen - Spellen - Wesel . Ed .: Heimatverein Voerde. Voerde 2013, p. 78-79 .
5. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Heinrich Wuwer: 100 years of the elevated railway. The railway line Oberhausen - Hamborn - Walsum - Möllen - Spellen - Wesel . Ed .: Heimatverein Voerde. Voerde 2013, p. 87-94 .
6. ↑ City of Voerde - The Mayor (Ed.): Development plan No. 63 2nd simplified change - Lippe-Seiten-Kanal / Alte Hünxer Straße - justification . April 26, 2007, p. 2–3 ( voerde.de [PDF]).
7. ↑ DeltaPort (Ed.): Joint instructions for the railway service of the connecting railway to the port of Emmelsum (Kreisbahn and Hafenbahn Emmelsum) - operating instructions . June 1, 2018, p. 3 ( deltaport.de ).
8. ↑ Business parks. In: wesel.de. City of Wesel, accessed on July 19, 2018 . 
9. ^ Heinrich Wuwer: 100 years of elevated railway. The railway line Oberhausen - Hamborn - Walsum - Möllen - Spellen - Wesel . Ed .: Heimatverein Voerde. Voerde 2013, p. 79-84 .
10. ^ Heinrich Wuwer: 100 years of elevated railway. The railway line Oberhausen - Hamborn - Walsum - Möllen - Spellen - Wesel . Ed .: Heimatverein Voerde. Voerde 2013, p. 84-87 .
11. ^ Port of Emmelsum. BZ Bahn (Ed.): System plan of the track systems . February 1, 2012.
12. ↑ ^{a b} Own operation in the Wesel district - DeltaPort GmbH & Co KG. Kreisbahn / Hafenbahn Emmelsum (Ed.): System plan of the track systems . June 1, 2018.
13. ↑ vehicle Portrait young 13,222th In: deutsche-kleinloks.de. Retrieved July 26, 2018 .