Moers trolleybus

The Moers trolleybus was a trolleybus system in North Rhine-Westphalia . Starting from the Lower Rhine city of Moers , a network of overland routes extended to Rheinberg - Ossenberg in the north, Duisburg - Ruhrort in the east, Rheinhausen - Friemersheim in the south and Vluyn or Kamp in the west. It was the largest trolleybus operation in Germany , existed from October 27, 1950 to September 28, 1968 and replaced the trams that had previously operated on these routes . Later he was in turn replaced by buses . Three transport companies were involved in the Moers trolleybus , these were the Moers – Homberg GmbH tram , the Moerser Verkehrs- und Betriebsbetriebe (KMV) district and the Duisburger Verkehrsgesellschaft (DVG). The network length was 54.635 kilometers, plus a further 1.35 kilometers belonging to Duisburg. A local peculiarity was the high driving voltage of 850 volts direct current instead of the generally usual 600 volts.

history

The individual route sections went into operation as follows:

opening	route	Overhead line	length	society
October 27, 1950	Rheinberg - Ossenberg	single lane	4.3 km	KMV
02nd December 1950	Lintfort , Gardemann - Rheinberg	two lanes	5.0 km	KMV
December 22, 1950	Lintfort, Rathausplatz - Lintfort, Gardemann	two lanes	1.7 km	KMV
August 11, 1952	Repelen , Linde - Moers, Neumarkt	two lanes	5.0 km	KMV
October 11, 1952	Lintfort, Post - Repelen	two lanes	4.4 km	KMV
October 11, 1952	Moers, Neumarkt - Moers, train station	two lanes	3.0 km	KMV
0November 1, 1952	Kamp - Lintfort	two lanes	1.9 km	KMV
17th May 1953	Moers, train station - Homberg	two lanes	6.2 km	Tram Moers-Homberg
September 26, 1954	Homberg, Bismarckplatz - Rheinhausen Ost train station	two lanes	?	Tram Moers-Homberg
December 11, 1954	Rheinhausen Ost - Friemersheim station	two lanes	9.84 km	Tram Moers-Homberg
18th December 1954	Homberg - Ruhrort	two lanes	2.8 km	Tram Moers-Homberg and DVG
November 15, 1955	Homberg, Bismarckplatz - Homberg, Parkfriedhof	two lanes	2.0 km	Tram Moers-Homberg
0November 6, 1958	Moers, Neumarkt - Vluyn	two lanes	8.5 km	Tram Moers-Homberg
December 18, 1960	Homberg, Parkfriedhof - Moers, Alexanderstraße	two lanes	3.3 km	Tram Moers-Homberg

The network was served by three lines , in 1962 - at the time of the greatest expansion - these operated as follows:

line	route	length	Travel time	Average speed	average distance between stops
2	Rheinhausen - Vluyn	26.6 km	72 minutes	22.2 km / h	416 m
4th	Ruhrort - Kamp	21.051 km	56 minutes	22.5 km / h	427 m
5	Ruhrort - Ossenberg	29.51 km	74 minutes	23.9 km / h	475 m

Line 5 was the longest trolleybus route in Germany. In the rush hour in addition inverted an amplifier line 1 between Ruhrort and Moers.

A total of 57 vehicles were used on the Moers network:

Numbers	owner	Manufacturer	Electrics	Type	Years of construction
101-103	KMV	Henschel / Uerdingen	SSW	ÜHIIs	1950-1951
104-106	KMV	Henschel / Uerdingen	SSW	ÜHIIIs	1952
107-108	KMV	Krupp / Ludewig	SSW	?	1956
109-115	KMV	Büssing / Uerdingen	SSW	ÜBIVs	1956-1958
116-117	KMV	Henschel	Box	HS 160 OSL	1959
118-123	KMV	Büssing / Emmelmann	SSW	President Association (articulated car)	1964
151-161	Tram Moers-Homberg	Henschel / Uerdingen	SSW	ÜHIIIs	1952-1954
162-165	Tram Moers-Homberg	Büssing / Uerdingen	SSW	ÜBIVs	1955-1957
166-167	Tram Moers-Homberg	Büssing / Uerdingen	Box	ÜBIVs	1961
168-172	Tram Moers-Homberg	Büssing / Emmelmann	SSW	President Association (articulated car)	1964
1	DVG	Henschel / Uerdingen	Box	ÜHIIIs	1955
2	DVG	Henschel / Uerdingen	SSW	ÜHIIIs	1953

Ludger Kenning, Mattis Schindler (Hrsg.): Trolleybuses in Germany . Volume 2: North Rhine-Westphalia, Hesse. Kenning, Nordhorn 2011, ISBN 978-3-933613-31-8 .