Rheinhausen – Kleve railway line
The Rheinhausen – Kleve railway line (Lower Rhine line) is a formerly continuous railway line on the Lower Rhine in North Rhine-Westphalia .
The line between Rheinhausen and Rheinkamp is double- tracked and classified as a main railway line , until Xanten it continues as a single-track branch line. The last section to Kleve has been out of service since 1990. As far as Millingen (near Rheinberg ), the line is electrified with overhead lines.
Naming
The Lower Rhine route was built in 1903/04 by the Prussian State Railway under the name Hippeland Express . "Hip" means goat in the Lower Rhine dialect , as a typical domestic animal of the Lower Rhine rural population, the name of the railway line also showed the economic structure of the Lower Rhine . This and the comparatively sparse settlement are decisive for the decline of the entire route and the closure of the northern part.
Course of the route
The line, which was officially opened on August 15, 1904, begins at Rheinhausen station , where it is still at the same level today as the Osterath – Dortmund Süd railway line operated by the former Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (RhE), through which it is operationally connected to Duisburg Central Station .
In what is now Duisburg's urban area, it crossed the former Duisburg-Ruhrort-Mönchengladbach railway line at Trompet station (also at the same level) , which before the nationalization last belonged to the former Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (BME).
In the former railway station Menzelen West crosses level free first the former Haltern-Venlo railway , a section of the Hamburg-Venlo train the former Cologne-Minden Railway Company (CME), and shortly after the former railway Boxtel-Büderich the former North Brabantsch- Duitsche Spoorweg-Maatschappij . The route finally ended in Kleve station on the left-hand Lower Rhine route (again RhE).
Partial shutdown
In the 1970s and 1980s, many industrial companies and collieries in Duisburg and other cities in the Ruhr area were shut down, so that fewer commuters used the route and it became increasingly unprofitable over time.
The number of passengers fell so far that the Deutsche Bundesbahn decided to give up part of the route between Kleve and Xanten. Urgent repair work in the northern part was therefore postponed and ultimately no longer carried out. Passenger traffic on this section was stopped on December 29, 1989 and freight traffic on February 28, 1990, and the line was dismantled in 2003.
Work has been underway on the construction of a cycle path on the route since 2010 . This has so far been completed between Xanten and Marienbaum . Another section was completed in Kleve in summer 2012. It will probably take a few years before the cycle path between Xanten and Kleve is fully passable, as these investments depend on state funding and the possibilities for implementation in the neighboring communities. In addition, some of the former railway line plots were sold, so that it will not be possible to drive completely on the old line.
In the development plan of the city of Xanten it is noted that the disused section (Kleve – Xanten) may not be overbuilt in order to enable a possible subsequent reactivation, despite de-dedication according to the regional plan of the administrative district of Düsseldorf (area development plan GEP 99).
Extension from Rheinkamp to Kamp-Lintfort
Since the 2010s, the city of Kamp-Lintfort has been requesting a connection via the mine connection railway ( railway line Zeche Friedrich Heinrich – Rheinpreußen-Hafen ) through a clip that branches off in Rheinkamp. Trains ending in Moers would be extended there. At the end of 2016, the state government gave its promise that this connection should be implemented by 2020. This will connect the future state horticultural show and the Kamp-Lintfort campus of the Rhein-Waal University of Applied Sciences . After the opening of the state horticultural show was postponed by a few weeks due to the COVID-19 pandemic , the weekend shuttle service started on May 16, 2020.
Level crossing in Birten
The unobstructed level crossing on Römerstrasse near Birten, which is difficult to see, is to be equipped with barriers as there have been repeated traffic accidents with vehicles.
Service offer
The Lower Rhine route is used in local passenger transport between Duisburg and Xanten every hour at the intersection in Moers at the usual symmetry minute: 28 and from Duisburg to Moers Monday to Friday and every 30 minutes during the day by the regional train RB 31 "Der Niederrheiner". The 30-minute cycle is tied through in rush hour with two pairs of trains from and to Xanten. On Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays is every hour the Lower Rhine route in passenger regional train RB 31 "The Niederrheiner" from May 16 to October 11 between Duisburg and Kamp-Lintfort South Landesgartenschau 2020 with intermediate stop Bahnhof Rheinhausen - breakpoint Rumeln - Trumpet - Bahnhof Moers run. In addition, since February 2020, the regional express RE 44 "Fossa-Emscher-Express" has been running on weekdays from Moers, which runs every hour via Duisburg and Oberhausen to Bottrop.
Local rail passenger transport was carried out until December 2009 by DB Regio NRW , which used class 643 diesel multiple units in single or double traction.
In December 2009, the NordWestBahn took over the local transport services on this route, as it had won the tender for the Niers-Rhein-Emscher network. Are used railcars of type LINT 41 .
DB class 643 of the DB in Moers station
LINT 41 of the NWB in the Trompet station
literature
- Hans-Paul Höpfner: Railways. Your story on the Lower Rhine . Mercator Verlag, Duisburg 1986, ISBN 3-87463-132-X .
Web links
NRWbahnarchiv by André Joost:
- Route 2330 : Rheinhausen ↔ Kleve
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Line 2505 : Duisburg-Hochfeld Süd ↔ Rheinhausen
(see Osterath – Dortmund Süd railway line ) -
Line 2312 : Duisburg Hbf ↔ Duisburg-Hochfeld Süd
(see Osterath – Dortmund Süd railway line )
further evidence:
- Entry on the Rheinhausen – Kleve railway line in the “ KuLaDig ” database of the Rhineland Regional Council
- Jürgen Stock: Kamp-Lintfort - VRR: Green light for Niederrheinbahn. In: RP Online. October 29, 2016. Retrieved July 17, 2017 .
- Hippeland Express (private website)
Individual evidence
- ↑ DB Netze - Infrastructure Register
- ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .
- ↑ Development plan No. 156 - eastern section. (PDF; 746 kB) City of Xanten, 2011, p. 5 , accessed on July 2, 2020 .
- ↑ RP ONLINE: Test was successful: Niederrheinbahn: Laga shuttle service starts on May 16. Retrieved May 8, 2020 .
- ↑ Reactivation of the Niederrheinbahn: shuttle service to the State Garden Show in Kamp-Lintfort started land.nrw.de, accessed on May 23, 2020
- ^ Xanten: Train collides with taxi at the level crossing in Birten. In: NRZ . November 10, 2019, accessed November 24, 2019 .
- ↑ Bahn wants to talk to the city about the barrier in Birten. In: RP . November 20, 2019, accessed November 24, 2019 .