Duisburg light rail
| Basic data | |
| Country | Germany |
|---|---|
| city | Duisburg |
| Transport network | VRR |
| use | |
| operator | DVG |
| Gauge | Standard gauge (1435 mm) |
| Power system | 750 V = ( overhead line ) |
The Duisburg Stadtbahn is part of the overall Rhein-Ruhr Stadtbahn concept . For the urban area of Duisburg , a largely crossing-free, normal-gauge local transport system was planned, running on its own rail track in high and low elevation , which was to connect the most important districts of Duisburg with one another. The construction work for this began in 1969. A complete implementation of the plans at that time is no longer expected from today's perspective. The current network consisting of a largely implemented light rail line and two lines in the tram lead-in operation should remain in this way for the time being.
planning
An east-west connection was planned, which was to lead from Duisburg to Mülheim an der Ruhr in the east and to the city of Moers on the left bank of the Rhine in the west.
For the south of Duisburg the intention was to reach the city center via Wanheimerort and Hochfeld . Two routes were to lead from the center to the north: one route via Ruhrort and Marxloh to Oberhausen - Holten , another via Meiderich and Alt-Hamborn to Dinslaken .
While in other cities such as Dortmund the expansion plans were almost completely implemented, an insufficient share of state grants meant that not even a tenth of the original plans were implemented in Duisburg.
financing
The concept of the Rhein-Ruhr Stadtbahn was implemented in the 1960s against the background of federal and state funding programs . Although the city council had voted in 1974 after an initial rapid expansion of the line in the south of the city in favor of the construction of the subway into the city center, this made slow progress in the mid-1970s in the wake of the economic crisis of the years .
The city was overwhelmed by the high financing requirements, as the financial resources originally promised by the federal and state governments for the expansion of the city rail system were reduced. It was not until 1983, eight years after the start of construction, that essential parts of the tunnel were completed in the shell, and commissioning was expected in 1987. But it was not until July 11, 1992 that the underground route under Duisburg city center could be opened. Today the light rail network is owned by a US company as part of cross-border leasing .
Construction of the light rail in Duisburg
In 1967 the Duisburger Verkehrsgesellschaft AG (DVG) began converting its tram network into a light rail . The plan was to expand the lines in the direction of Düsseldorf and Mülheim and a connection to Moers in terms of light rail. They should disappear in a tunnel in the city center and otherwise be laid on a separate track. As a result of this conversion, five routes were closed between 1971 and 1992 and switched to bus services .
The concrete implementation of the program began on December 16, 1970, when 800 m of the light rail line was laid in a cut in the area of the Sittardsberg station. The construction proceeded rapidly at first. In 1974 the section from Sittardsberg to Huckingen was created. As far as St. Anna Hospital , the expansion was carried out at ground level on its own railway body and from there as an elevated railway . As part of this construction project, a train station was built on Angerbogen near the city limits of Düsseldorf. A new district of Duisburg with a planned population of 20,000 was to be created here, and there were also considerations to locate the new University of Duisburg there. Since the construction of the estate did not begin until after 2002, there is still a 10.5 million euro ghost train station there today .
The inner city tunnel with five underground stations was opened on July 11, 1992: Steinsche Gasse , König-Heinrich-Platz , Duisburg Hbf , Duissern and Rathaus . In the vicinity of the König-Heinrich-Platz underground station there is a civil defense room for 4,500 people, which protects against nuclear, biological and chemical attacks . After the aboveground route on Düsseldorf and Königstraße was closed, it was expanded to a (complete) pedestrian zone .
Between the train stations König-Heinrich-Platz (abbreviation of the upper level: Kpo , lower level: Kpu ) and Duisburg Hbf (abbreviation of the upper level: Dho , lower level: Dhu ) the driving tubes run on two floors. The König-Heinrich-Platz underground station is in line operation, i.e. Kpo for lines U79 and 903, Kpu for line 901. If a train ends there, it uses the lower level (Kpu) to get into the sweeping system to get.
The Duisburg Hbf underground station is one-way: On the upper level (Dho), trains to the north of Duisburg (U79 to Meiderich and 903 to Dinslaken ) and east (901 to Mülheim) depart . The lines through the city center and further north (901 to Laar ) and south (U79 to Düsseldorf and 903 to Hüttenheim ) run on the lower level (Dhu).
Simultaneously with the opening, the tram route of the then line 2 between Duisburg-Hochfeld Süd station and Platanenhof, which was closed in 1979, was put back into operation. With the completion of a bridge over the Hochfeld freight yard in 1991, a continuous connection from Hüttenheim to the city center was set up under the new line 903 without a detour via Grunewald and Neudorf. The discontinued route through Neudorf of the former tram line 904 has been replaced by the bus line 934, which connects the Neudorf district with the city center, but due to the use of an alternative route, is much worse and only connects every 15 minutes. The travel time on the U79 tram line has increased due to the tunnel opening from the Kremerstr. extended by three minutes.
Due to the joint traffic with the Rheinbahn on the U79 line , the tunnel sections are operated with line train control (LZB). Since the route of the U79 between the stations Neuer Friedhof and Kesselsberg does not have any crossings, operation in LZB mode would be possible. The infrastructure for this is installed, but not currently in operation.
In 2000 the Duisburg Stadtbahn was extended by two underground stations: Auf dem Damm and Meiderich Bahnhof . The new route begins right at the end of the existing tunnel route behind Duissern station. The ramp in Rübenstrasse previously used by lines 902 and 903 was dismantled. During the approximately six weeks of work, a single track was driven between Duissern and Auf dem Damm. With the discontinuation of the section between Meiderich Süd Bahnhof and Duissern on the surface, the last single-track section that was used as planned also disappeared. The travel time between Duissern and Auf dem Damm is four minutes. The route leads under the port facilities . The total travel time on the U79 was shortened by seven minutes thanks to the LZB-controlled top speed of 80 km / h for the B-car between Duisburg Hbf and Meiderich station. The GT 10 NC-DU originally only reached a top speed of 70 km / h, which has fallen further to 60 km / h after installing the low-floor center parts.
Due to cuts in financial allocations and delays in the Ruhrgebiet urban railway project, only the U79 line from Duisburg-Meiderich station to Düsseldorf University has been implemented as a real urban railway line in Duisburg. After the conversion of the southern line of the U79 to operation with high-floor vehicles of the type B light rail vehicle in connection with the opening of the tunnel in the city center in 1992, the platforms of the stations Neuer Friedhof, Münchener Straße, Sittardsberg and Kesselsberg were raised to 90 cm above the top of the rails . The Mühlenkamp stop was modified accordingly in early 2000. The St. Anna Hospital stop further south was expanded into a real train station, including lifts, after lengthy planning in February 2005. Of the 20 stations of the U79 in the Duisburg city area, 14 have an elevated platform that allows entry at ground level. The upgrading of this line with dynamic passenger information and elevators (2006 U-Bahnhof Münchener Strasse in the Buchholz district in high elevation) will be continued continuously.
The routes on lines 901 and 903 have also been modernized again and again since the early 1990s. For example, when new stops, some of which are more than 40 years old, were and are being used more and more 26 cm high central platforms. The dynamic passenger information (DFI) can now also be found in the districts outside the city center such as Marxloh, Obermarxloh and Laar. When renewing track systems, attention is paid to increasing the center-to-center distance between the tracks so that vehicles up to 2.65 meters wide can be used in the future. Because of the very small track center distance in some places, the 2.3 meter wide N 8C light rail car could not be used in the Duisburg network, which led to the custom-made 2.2 meter wide GT 8 NC-DU light rail car .
The planned further construction of the tunnel in Meiderich in the course of the lines 902 and 903 in the direction of Dinslaken to the Landschaftspark Nord has meanwhile been rejected by the Düsseldorf district government.
Line network
Line network 1988
| line | route |
|---|---|
| 79 | Duisburg Hbf - König-Heinrich-Platz or Friedrich-Wilhelm-Strasse - Grunewald - DU-Huckingen - D-Wittlaer - Kaiserswerth - Jan-Wellem-Platz - Düsseldorf Hbf (with red line number ) |
| 901 | Obermarxloh Loop - Marxloh Pollmann - Beeck Monument - Laar Church - Ruhrort Bf - König-Heinrich-Platz - Duisburg Hbf - DU-Zoo / Uni - MH-Speldorf - Mülheim city center |
| 904 | Laar church - Ruhrort train station - König-Heinrich-Platz - Duisburg main station - Neudorfer Markt - Grunewald - Hochfeld Süd train station - Wanheimerort - Hüttenheim loop |
| 909 | Dinslaken Bf - DU-Walsum - Marxloh Pollmann - Hamborn Town Hall - Meiderich Süd Bf - Duisburg Hbf - König-Heinrich-Platz - Grunewald - Huckingen Albertus-Magnus-Straße |
Line network current
| line | route | Tact |
|---|---|---|
| U 79 |
( U DU-Meiderich Bf 1 -  U Auf dem Damm -) U Duissern 2 - U Duisburg Hbf -  U König-Heinrich-Platz - U Steinsche Gasse - Platanenhof - Musfeldstrasse - Kremerstrasse - Karl-Jarres-Strasse - Grunewald - Grunewald depot - Kulturstraße - Im Schlenk - Waldfriedhof - Münchener Straße - Sittardsberg - Mühlenkamp - St. Anna Hospital - Angerbogen (never opened) - DU-Kesselsberg 3 - D-Froschenteich - Wittlaer 4 - Am Mühlenacker - Kalkumer Schlossallee - Klemensplatz - Kittelbachstraße - Alte Landstraße - Lohausen - Freiligrathplatz  - Messe Ost / Stockumer Kirchstraße - Nordpark / Aquazoo - Reeser Platz - Theodor-Heuss-Brücke - Golzheimer Platz - Kennedydamm - U Victoriaplatz / Klever Straße - U Nordstraße - U Heinrich-Heine-Allee - U Steinstraße / Königsallee - U Oststraße - U Düsseldorf Hbf 5 (- U Oberbilker Markt / Warschauer Straße - U Ellerstraße - U D-Oberbilk - Kaiserslauterner Straße - Provinzialplatz - Werstener Dorfstraße - Südpark - D-Universität Ost / Botanical Garden 6 )High-floor operation of the Rheinbahn and DVG ; former D-Bahn ; Sections 4–5 belong to the Düsseldorf night network ; A special timetable applies during the school holidays. 10-minute intervals in the section 1-4 during the HVZ 15-minute intervals in the section 2-6 Sat 5-19 pm and in Section 4-5 Mon-Fri 21-0 pm (from 08.29.2018, before 8 p.m. to midnight), Sat 8 p.m. to midnight and Sun 5 a.m. to midnight, intervals of 30 minutes in section 2–6 Mon – Fri 7–10 p.m. and Sat 7–8 p.m. and in section 1–2 Sat 9 a.m. And Sun 12 pm–7pm |
15 min (1–3) 10/20 min (3–4) 10 min (4–6) |
| 901 | DU-Obermarxloh - Marxloh Pollmann - Bruckhausen - Beeck - Laar - Ruhrort Bf - Ruhrort Friedrichsplatz - Kaßlerfeld - City Hall - König-Heinrich-Platz - Duisburg Hbf - Zoo / Uni - Mülheim - Raffelberg - Speldorf - Broich Castle - MH-Stadtmitte - Mülheim Hbf | 15 minutes |
| 903 | Dinslaken Bf - Duisburg-Vierlinden - Walsum Town Hall - Fahrn Schwan - Marxloh Pollmann - Hamborn Town Hall - Landschaftspark Nord - Meiderich Bf - Auf dem Damm - Duissern - Duisburg Hbf - König-Heinrich-Platz - Steinsche Gasse - Pauluskirche - Hochfeld Süd Bf - Wanheimerort - Wanheim-Angerhausen - Hüttenheim | 7.5 / 15 min |
Line 902
Line 902 ran from 2000 between Walsum and König-Heinrich-Platz or Grunewald as a repeater for line 903. The stops on the newly built section along the former Boxbartbahn between Platanenhof and Düsseldorfer Straße were passed through without stops, as these only have elevated platforms. Today the amplifiers run between Walsum and Rheintörchenstraße as line 903.
Since the trains on lines 901 and 903 cannot go directly to the depot in Duisburg-Grunewald, the outgoing and incoming trains on both lines are internally managed as 902 and officially begin their service on the respective level in Duisburg main station. In addition, special trains in stadium traffic at home games of MSV Duisburg between Watereck and Grunewald are also run as line 902.
Expansion plans for the future
According to an article in the NRZ on February 14, 2013, the Duisburger Verkehrsgesellschaft is thinking about the further expansion of the rail network; in particular, the tram cars should also drive over the Rhine bridges. An expert has already analyzed the need. Building bridges by rail is justified by the existing demand. The buses would already be driving to Rheinhausen and Homberg at frequent intervals . And the number of passengers should continue to rise in the future. The connection to the university or the inner harbor are also currently under discussion. The plans are based on expert reports by the IVV engineering group from Aachen, the results of which resulted in an internal strategy paper. According to the target paper for “Duisburg 2027”, local public transport should become more important and the number of passengers should also grow in this context. Because so far the Duisburg-based company has made more than half of their journeys by car, and just eleven percent use buses and trains. The existing lines are already reaching their capacity limits, around half of all passengers are transported by DVG on the U79, 901 and 903 trains. The 903 is at times so overcrowded that it is no longer possible to ride along.
See also
literature
- Dieter Höltge: Trams and light rail vehicles in Germany. Volume 4: Ruhr area from Dortmund to Duisburg . EK-Verlag, Freiburg 1994, ISBN 3-88255-334-0 .
- Zeitzeugenbörse Duisburg eV: The Duisburg tram. Erfurt 2014, ISBN 978-3-95400-361-7 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Local traffic - DVG may want to expand the tram network in Duisburg. In: NRZ. February 14, 2013.
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