Lower Rhine transport company

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Niederrheinische Verkehrsbetriebe AG
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Basic information
Company headquarters Moers
Web presence www.niag-online.de
Reference year 2019
owner Rhenus Veniro (51%),
Wesel district (43%),
Kleve district (3%),
Moers (0.63%),
Duisburg (1.26%),
Wesel (1.11%)
Board Werner Kook,
Peter Giesen,
Christian Kleinenhammann
Supervisory board Heinz-Dieter Bartels (chairman),
Michael Viefers (vice chairman),
Harald Winter (vice chairman),
12 other members
Transport network Rhein-Ruhr transport association
Employee about 700
sales unknowndep1
Lines
Gauge 1,435 mm
bus 97
number of vehicles
Locomotives 7 diesel locomotives ,
2 shunting locomotives
Omnibuses 187 owned + 152 rented
other vehicles 115 freight cars
statistics
Passengers 36.5 million
Mileage unknown
Catchment area 2.651 km²
Residents in the
catchment area
1.3 million
Length of line network
Bus routes 2,200 kmdep1
Operating facilities
Depots Moers (bus and train),
Kleve (bus),
Wesel (bus),
Geldern (bus)
Other operating facilities Orsoy Rhine port
Track length 36 kmdep1
NIAG locomotive 3 in duck catching
NIAG locomotive 8 in Moers
Locomotive 31 in Düsseldorf-Rath
Several buses at the bus station of the train station Venlo u. a. a NIAG bus to Duisburg

The Lower Rhine Transport Company , shortly NIAG is a transport company of Wesel and the Rhenus Veniro GmbH & Co. KG , headquartered in Moers . The traffic area includes the districts of Kleve and Wesel as well as parts of the Duisburg city ​​area. Some lines lead to the Netherlands to 's-Heerenberg , Venlo and Nijmegen . Until the end of 2011, NIAG was a company in the VGN , which has since been dissolved , and is a member of the Rhine-Ruhr transport association and the tariff association of federal and non-federal railways in Germany (TBNE).

The transport company was founded in 1968 from the merger of the Moers-Homberg GmbH tram, the Moerser Verkehrs- und supplybetriebe (KMV) district and the Niederrheinischen Automobilgesellschaft mbH (NIAG).

history

Tram Moers – Homberg

Tram Moers – Homberg GmbH was founded on May 16, 1908 by resolution of the two cities on August 7, 1906. The company was registered on June 29, 1908 and on September 6, 1908, it received the concession to build and operate a meter-gauge tram . The company had a capital of 1.5 million gold marks , 50 percent of which was raised by the district and 25 percent each by the two cities. Construction of the railway began in 1907, before the license was granted, and was completed in 1908. On October 1st, a steam locomotive started operating on the 6.025-kilometer route between Moers and Homberg , as the overhead lines were not yet fully assembled and the second track was still missing in several places. This had to happen because on September 30th the Prussian State Railway had ceased operations on the parallel Homberg – Moers railway . Tram operations could then be started on December 11th with ten railcars and six sidecars. The route ran from the train station in Homberg via the Rheinanlagen , Ruhrorter Straße , Augustastraße , Moerser Straße and Homberger Straße to the Steintor in Moers.

In 1907 the bridge from Ruhrort over the Rhine was completed and on October 1, 1908 a connection was made to the tracks of the Kreis Ruhrorter tram , which used the bridge for its tram and had moved its tracks to Goetheplatz . On February 11, 1909, the line was extended to 6.82 kilometers, as from that day the Prussian State Railroad was allowed to cross the tracks. This level crossing lasted until the 1920s. On January 1, 1913, the Moers - Homberg GmbH tram opened a line over the Rhine bridge to Ruhrort; previously, on December 21, 1912, a trial run up to the bridge ramp had been put into operation. In 1914, the route in Moers was extended from the Steintor via Steinstraße , Altmarkt and Neustraße to Neutor . From March 12, 1915, this route was also used by the Moers – Kamp – Rheinberg tram.

From February 8, 1918, freight trains from the Rheinpreußen colliery ran on the Moers - Homberg tram routes. They use a track connection to Krefeld specially created for these journeys , which was electrified on November 15, 1920. On this day, a new line from Homberg via Moers and Kapellen to Krefeld began operations.

On January 1, 1925, the Moers – Homberg tram took over the management of the Homberg tram. In 1926, the Moers – Kamp – Rheinberg tram followed. Thus, the management of these three companies was brought together under one roof and uniform numbering was introduced:

line Line route Travel time
(min)
Cycle
(min)
01 Hülsdonk - Moers - Homberg 30th 15th
02 Ruhrort - Homberg - Rheinhausen - Friemersheim 44 30th
03 Homberg -  Baerl 20th 60
04th Moers -  Lintfort - Kamp 43 20th
05 Lintfort - Rheinberg 20th 60
12 Krefeld - Moers - Homberg - Ruhrort 72 60

In World War II, the line 3 was set on 29 September 1,943th On March 4, 1945, the network was finally so badly damaged that all trips had to be stopped. After the end of the war, tram operations could be resumed in sections until January 14, 1946. The regular service was not maintained for long. On May 16, 1953, it was switched to trolleybus and omnibus operation. Only the route of the former Tram Homberg GmbH was initially operated until it was also discontinued piece by piece by September 25, 1954. The company itself went on May 26, 1968 in the NIAG Niederrheinische Verkehrsbetriebe AG.

statistics
  1911 1928 1937 1951
Railcar 10 12 27 18th
sidecar 06th 12 20th 20th
Route length 6.03 8.63 21.71 17.19
Operating performance in wagon kilometers 383,000 500,000 881,000 1,197,000
Transported people 1,522,000 2,383,000 2,957,000 5,195,000

Homberg tram

Tram Homberg GmbH was founded on June 29, 1908 for the construction of the meter-gauge tram Friemersheim - Homberg - Baerl and entered in the commercial register. The municipality of Homberg held 540,000  gold marks , the municipality of Hochemmerich with 180,000 gold marks, the municipality of Baerl with 90,000 gold marks and the two communities Friemersheim and Bliersheim with 45,000 gold marks each. Construction began even before the final signing of the contract and was inspected by the police on March 30, 1909. Due to an objection from a resident, the section to Baerl was only able to go into operation on May 6, 1910 with a delay. On July 12, 1913 and 1914, further sections were opened, so that the line reached a total length of 16.4 kilometers. The railway existed as an independent company until January 1, 1925, after which the Moers - Homberg GmbH tram took over management. The route was renamed Line 2 (popularly it was still called the Crooked Line ). The company began in 1930 with an extension of the line in Friemersheim to the tracks of the Krefeld tram via Hohenbudberg station and the railway settlement, but never completed this construction project. On October 1, 1933, both companies merged under the name Straßenbahn Moers - Homberg GmbH. The route was taken out of service in 1954 and initially (until 1968) replaced by the Moers trolleybus .

statistics
  1911 1921 1928
Railcar 8th 16 15th
sidecar 2 10 08th
Operating performance in wagon kilometers 439,000 k. A. k. A.
Transported people 916,000 1,512,000 1,212,000

Tram Moers – Kamp – Rheinberg

The streetcar Moers Kamp Rheinberg GmbH was established in November 1912 as a special purpose association of the communities Kamp-Lintfort, Moers, Repelen -Baerl and Rheinberg establishing a regelspurigen founded tram. The company had a share capital of 110,000 gold marks . 49.5 percent of this was provided by RWE , 37.5 percent of the remaining shares were provided by the municipality of Moers, 25 percent each by the municipalities of Kamp-Lintfort and Rheinberg and 12.5 percent by the municipality of Repelen.

The construction of the line was completed in 1914. Since not enough copper could be procured for the contact wire due to the First World War , after negotiations with the Kriegsmetall AG one had to fall back on wire, which the Klever tram provided. This simple wire, however, only allowed one current for a 40-minute cycle.

In 1926, management was transferred to the Moers - Homberg GmbH tram. With the route of the line M of the Rheinbahn to Düsseldorf one had a common final stop.

At times, both railways were connected and were used as a freight tram for coal transport in both world wars .

Moerser Kreisbahn

The Moerser Kreisbahn operated the Rheinberg – Moers – Hoerstgen – Sevelen railway, which opened in 1909/1910 .

District Moerser Transport and Supply Companies

In 1938 the district of Moers incorporated the Moers – Kamp – Rheinberg tram, after RWE AG had left as a partner, together with the Moerser Kreisbahn, the Orsoy port and the waterworks in the newly founded Moerser Verkehrs- und supplybetriebe (KMV).

After the Second World War, the necessary renovation measures on the tram route were no longer carried out and the tram was replaced on August 10, 1952 by the Moers trolleybus . Whose timetable was, as before, 243e under the table number, the tram in the course book of the German Federal Railroad listed. The company finally merged with the Moers – Homberg – Rheinhausen tram in the Niederrheinische Verkehrsbetriebe on May 26, 1968.

statistics
  1920 1928 1936 1951
Railcar 12 12 12 12
sidecar 06th 12 12 12
Route length 18.46 18.46 18.24 12.16
Operating performance in wagon kilometers 769,000 500,000 404,000 703,000
Transported people 2,730,000 1,295,000 811,000 2,003,000

Niederrheinische Automobilgesellschaft mbH (NIAG)

In 1924, the city of Duisburg , the districts of Geldern , Kleve , Rees , Moers and a number of towns belonging to the districts named Niederrheinische Automobilgesellschaft mbH (NIAG). The seat of the company was Moers. The NIAG saw its task in supplying the districts on the left Lower Rhine with a wide-meshed bus service. The first German cross-border bus route from Duisburg to Venlo in the Netherlands was also created .

The following lines gradually emerged:

Line route opening
SonsbeckGeldern 0April 8, 1925
Duisburg -  Kevelaer May 28, 1925
Moers -  RheinbergWesel June 10, 1925
Wesel - Kevelaer August 15, 1925
Duisburg - Venlo September 13, 1925
Moers -  RheinhausenUerdingen September 13, 1925
Geldern -  Kaldenkirchen 0February 7, 1926
Kamp - Geldern May 15, 1926
Moers - Sonsbeck May 15, 1926
Walbeck - Geldern 0April 1, 1927
Sonsbeck -  Kleve 0February 1, 1928
Kalkar -  Goch 0February 1, 1928
Moers - Meerbeck -  Ruhrort - Duisburg 0February 1, 1928
Kalkar - Resserschanz April 14, 1928
Sevelen - Geldern 0April 1, 1926 1)
Geldern -  Wachtendonk 0October 6, 1929
Reeserschanz -  Xanten 0October 6, 1929
Kalkar - Kleve 0December 1, 1930 2)
Zyfflich - Kleve 0April 4, 1936
ad 1) taken over from the Moerser Kreisbahn

ad 2) taken over by the Klever tram

Rail transport

On the Rheinberg - Moers - Neukirchen-Vluyn - Schaephuysen line [-Hoerstgen-Sevelen abandoned ] , NIAG now only operates occasional rail traffic. Since 1968 there has only been freight traffic.

The St. Tönis (- Krefeld Süd) - Krefeld Nord - Hülser Berg line , which was connected to Moers via Niep until the beginning of the 1950s, has been called the "Schluff" museum railway since 2010 by the Krefeld public utility company ( SWK Mobil ) Excursion traffic operated.

At least special trips were carried out in passenger traffic: On the Moers - Orsoy - Rheinberg route between May 1 and October 3, 2008, there were again five pairs of trips on 13 Sundays and public holidays. In 2007 there was already sporadic excursion traffic with platform trucks and historic rail buses on the Moers - Orsoy - Rheinberg routes and on December 9th with the Christmas Market Express from Neukirchen to Moers. A second run of the nostalgic train with more than 1,200 passengers took place on "Ascension Day" 2007. Here the nostalgic trains to the Moerser Kirmes ran back to Vluyn for the first time since 2001 , as this route for freight traffic was reactivated since April 2008. After that, the nostalgia trips were no longer carried out because the ailing rail buses were scrapped.

Line directory

NIAG express buses
line Line route
SB10 (Mon-Fri Kamp-Lintfort New Town Hall) Mon-Sat Neukirchen-Vluyn Südring - Moers-Hülsdonk - Duisburg Central Station east entrance
SB30 Duisburg central station east entrance - Moers - Kamp-Lintfort New Town Hall (MO-SA Geldern train station)
SB58 Emmerich - Kleve - Kranenburg - Nijmegen (NL)
SB70 Kamp-Lintfort - Rheurdt - Kerken Aldekerk train station
SB80 Moers - DU-Rumeln - Krefeld-Uerdingen
Status: December 2019
NIAG bus routes
line Line route
01 Kamp-Lintfort - Rheinberg
02 New Town Hall - Gestfeld - Geisbruch - Waldfriedhof - Kamperbrück
LinienBus and TaxiBus 3 Moers - MO-Hülshorst - MO-Kapellen - MO-Vennikel - DU-Kaldenhausen Krölls (Mon – Fri school time LinienBus) (On holidays, Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays TaxiBus)
04th MO-Repelen - MO-Eick - MO-Meerbeck - MO-Hülsdonk
TaxiBus 4 MO-Rathaus - MO-Königlicher Hof - St. Josef Hospital - Max-Planck-Str.
LinienBus, and TaxiBus 6 Vluyn - Neukirchen - Niep - Luit - (MO-FR school time Moers-Kapellen)
07th Kamp-Lintfort - Rheurdt - Neukirchen-Vluyn (MO-FR school days Moers)
08th Vierbaum - Budberg - Rheinberg
09 Alps - Drüpt - Milingen - Rheinberg
16 Voerde-Spellen - Friedrichsfeld - Rathausplatz - Voerde Klosterkamp
17th Oberlohberg - Hiesfeld - Dinslaken Bf - Dinslakener Bruch
19th Lohberg - Dinslaken Bf - Averbruch
25th Business park south - Dinslaken-Hiesfeld - Möllen - Voerde - Friedrichsfeld
26th Barmingholten - Hiesfeld - Dinslaken
29 Venlo (NL) train station - Straelen - Niederdorf - Neukirchen Vluyn, Vluyner Südring (continue as line 929 to Duisburg)
31 Aldekerk - Rheurdt - Issum - Geldern
32 (MO-FR school days in Moers) Kamp-Lintfort - Issum - Geldern
33 Straelen - Aldekerk
34 Straelen-Herongen - Wachtendonk - Aldekerk
35 Geldern Bf - Geldern-Walbeck - Straelen
36 Geldern - Sonsbeck - Xanten
37 Wesel - Alps - Sonsbeck - Kevelaer
38 Rheinberg Bf - Annaberg - Alspray - Millingen - Alps
39 Alps - Rheinberg-Millingen - Kamp-Lintfort
41 Xanten - Veen - Alps
43 Xanten - Sonsbeck - Sonsbeck-Labbeck - Uedem
45 Uedemerbruch - Uedem - Kalkar
46 Kleve White Gate - Kalkar
47 Goch - Kalkar - Rees
48 Kalkar - Grieth - Huisberden
50 Brienen - Kleve Bf - Materborn - Goch-Nierswalde
51 Bedburg-Hau - White Gate - Kleve Bf - industrial area
52 Kleve Warbeyen - Kleve Ring School
53 Geldern - Veert - Betting - Kevelaer - Kervenheim - Uedem
54 Uedem - Kleve
55 Kleve - Kranenburg
56 Kleve Bf - Upper Town - White Gate - Bedburg-Hau
57 Kleve Bf - Materborn
59 Kleve Bf - Zyfflich - Wyler - Kranenburg
60 Kleve Bf - Millingen aan de Rijn (NL)
69 Geldern Bf - Straelen - Herongen
81 Wesel - Friedrichsfeld - Spellen - Mehrum - Löhnen - Voerde
82 Wittenberg - Scherpersfeld - Wesel Martinistraße
83 Wittenberg - Fusternberg - Wesel train station - Lackhausen
85 Wittenberg - Lauerhaas - Wesel Bf - Feldmark - Flüren
86 Wittenberg - Lauerhaas - Wesel Bf - Flüren - Bislich - Rees
88 Rees - Bees - Praest - Vrasselt - Emmerich
89 Scherpersfeld - Wesel School Center North
90 Emmerich Bf - Speelberg Kapaunenberg
91 Emmerich Bf - 's-Heerenberg (NL)
93 Emmerich - Dornick - Praest
94 Emmerich Bf - Borghees -Hüthum - Elten
95 Rees - Haldern - Wertherbruch - Loikum - Mussum - Bocholt
96 Wesel - Blumenkamp - Hamminkeln - Wertherbruch / Brünen
97 Rees - Cleves
063 Geldern Bf - Straelen - Wachtendonk - Kempen Bf
911 Kamp-Lintfort - Moers - DU-Homberg - DU-Ruhrort distribution circle
912 Neukirchen-Vluyn - Moers - DU-Homberg - DU-Rheinhausen market
913 Moers-Hülsdonk - DU-Baerl - Orsoy - Rheinberg - Annaberg
914 Moers - MO-Schwafheim - DU-Rheinhausen Markt (MO-FR Friemersheim - Logport / industrial area Hohenbudberg)
915 DIN-Lohberg - Dinslaken Bf (- DU-Walsum Overbruch Franz-Lenze-Platz)
918 Voerde - VOE-Möllen - Dinslaken Bf - DIN-Hiesfeld - OB Holten
921 Moers Königlicher Hof - DU-Oestrum - Rheinhausen - Hochfeld - city center - DU-Hbf east entrance
929 Duisburg central station east entrance - DU-Ruhrort Friedrichsplatz - DU-Homberg - Moers - Neukirchen-Vluyn Südring (further as line 29 to Venlo (NL) MO-FR 3 ×, SA 2 × a day)
Status: December 2019
City lines NIAG
line Line route
SL 40 Lüttingen - Xanten Bf - Hochbruch
SL 42 Xanten - Wardt - Vynen - Marienbaum - Obermörmter - Kalkar
SL 42A Appeldorn - Kehrum - Hönnepel - Niedermörmter - Appeldorn
SW 1 Weeze Bf - Airport - Wemb
Status: December 2018
Citizens' buses NIAG
line Line route
BAL Alps - Bönninghardt - Veen - Xanten
BEM Emmerich Bf - Leegmeer - industrial area
BHL Hamminkeln - Wertherbruch - Bocholt
BHM More - Mehrhoog - Hamminkeln
BKR Kranenburg - Düffel - Zyfflich
BKT Twisteden - Bahnhof - Kevelaer Nord
BRB Wallach - Borth - Ossenberg - Millingen - Rheinberg - Budberg - Orsoy
BSO Veen - Sonsbeck - Labbeck - Xanten
BUE Uedem - Kirsel - Keppelen - Uedem - Uedemerbruch - Labbeck
BHB Hamminkeln - Brünen - Marienthal - Havelich - Brünen
BKA 1 Kalkar - Wissel - Grieth
BKA 2 Kalkar - Hönnepel - Niedermörmter - Appeldorn
BKA 3 Kalkar - Kehrum - Neulouisendorf
BKA 4 Kalkar middle
Status: December 2018
Call collective taxis NIAG
line Line route
AST Goch Goch - Asperden - Nierswalde - Kessel - Hassum - Hommersum
AST Hamminkel 1 Hamminkeln - Hülshorst - Mehrhoog
AST Hamminkel2 Hamminkeln - Brünen - sub-base - Marienthal - Havelich - Nordbrock
AST Hamminkel 3 Hamminkeln - Loikum - Wertherbruch
AST Hamminkel 4 Hamminkeln - Ringenberg - Dingden
AST Kalkar1 Kalkar - Louisendorf - Pfalzdorf - Goch
AST Kalkar2 Kalkar - Till - Wissel - Grieth
AST Kalkar3 Kalkar - Niedermörmter - Rees - Appeldorn - Kehrum - Neulouisendorf
T57 Kleve Kleve Bf - Big Market - Schwanenburg
AST Kleve1 Kleve - Materborn - Reichswalde - Nierswalde
AST Kleve2 Kleve - Pfalzdorf - Bedburg - Hau
AST Kleve3 Kleve - Griethausen - Brienen
AST Kleve5 Kleve - Cattle - Düffelward - Keeken - Bimmen
AST Kranenburg Kleve - Donsbrüggen - Nütterden - Frasselt - Kranenburg - Wyler
AST Wesel 1 Wesel - Lackhausen - Blumenkamp
AST Wesel2 Wesel - Up to now
Status: December 2018

subsidiary company

literature

  • Dieter Höltge: Trams and light rail vehicles in Germany, Volume 9 Niederrhein without Duisburg EK-Verlag, Freiburg i.Br. 2004, ISBN 3-88255-390-1 .

Web links

Commons : NIAG  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. General figures NIAG online (accessed April 12, 2019)
  2. organs NIAG online (accessed on April 12, 2019)
  3. General figures NIAG online (accessed April 12, 2019)
  4. Bus & Bahn NIAG online (accessed April 12, 2019)
  5. Numbers Eisenbahn NIAG online (accessed on April 12, 2019)
  6. Bus & Bahn NIAG online (accessed April 12, 2019)
  7. Eisenbahn NIAG online (accessed April 12, 2019)
  8. Bus & Bahn NIAG online (accessed April 12, 2019)
  9. Port of NIAG online (accessed April 12, 2019)
  10. Logistics Infrastructure NIAG online (accessed April 12, 2019)
  11. http://www.mec-du.de/resources/Bhf+Rheinhausen+Umfeld+mit+Strassenbahn.jpg Photo of the Rheinhausen (Friemersheim) train station with tram
  12. Source: Extra-Tipp am Sonntag of January 31, 2010, p. 16, KR / KE, ERK2-4-5 (publisher's special page), Verlag City- Werbungblatt Krefeld GmbH, extra-tipp-krefeld.de
  13. Excursions with the Schluff nostalgia train , www.niag-online archive, accessed on April 12, 2019.