Düsseldorf – Neuss light rail line

U75
continue towards Düsseldorf-Eller (see trunk line 2 (Düsseldorf tram) ) Branch route 1 towards Oberbilk Düsseldorf Central Station (Dhb) S 1 S 6 S 11 S 28 S 68 Oststrasse (Oss) 707 Steinstrasse / Königsallee (Sts) 701 705 706 Heinrich-Heine-Allee (Hho) U 71 U 72 U 73 U 83 Branch route 1 towards Duisburg / Stockum Courtyard garden ramp Tonhalle / Ehrenhof (clay) Rhine crossing at Oberkassel Bridge Luegplatz (Lup) Barbarossaplatz (Bap) Branch towards Meerbusch / Krefeld (see K-Bahn ) Belsenplatz (Blp) Drususstrasse (Drs) Heeerdter Hospital (Hkr) Nikolaus-Knopp-Platz (Nkp) Heesenstrasse (Hns) Aldekerkstrasse (Adk) Planned trunk route 5 towards D-Messe / Flughafen (U81) Branch to the Rheinbahn depot Handweiser Handweiser (Hdw) D-Vogesenstraße (Vog) Am Kaiser (Amk) S 8 S 11 S 28 Blücherstrasse (Blu) Planned trunk route 5 towards Rheinparkcenter (U81) Junction of Wendeschleife Theodor-Heuss-Platz on line 709 Neuss main station (Neh) 709 S 8 S 11 S 28 Junction towards Neuss Stadthalle on line 709 Sweeping system Neuss Hauptbahnhof - U75
709 (Neuss city center)
Wendeschleife Theodor-Heuss-Platz - 709 Theodor-Heuss-Platz continue towards Düsseldorf-Oberkassel - U75 Neuss main station (Neh) U 75 S 8 S 11 S 28 Junction Kehranlage Neuss Hauptbahnhof - U75 Niedertor (Ndt) Bell hammer (Gha) Neuss Market (Nmkt) State Theater (Ltt) Junction Wendeschleife Neuss, Stadthalle - (709) Neuss City Hall / Museum (Nsh) Junction Wendeschleife Neuss, Stadthalle - (709) continue towards Düsseldorf over Josef-Kardinal-Frings-Brücke - 709

The Düsseldorf – Neuss light rail line connects Düsseldorf-Eller with the west of Düsseldorf and downtown Neuss and is part of the Düsseldorf light rail system .

history

GT8SU on the U75 line at the final stop Neuss Hbf

The line from Düsseldorf via Oberkassel to Neuss was built and opened on August 5, 1901 by the Rheinische Bahngesellschaft . Due to the resulting low demand from the Neuss – Oberkassel state railway , it ceased operations a year later on October 1, 1902. The route of the tram initially ran along the Rhine- Dyke past Heerdt . In 1912 the company decided to run the tram through Heerdt in order to avoid damaging the dike.

In 1929 the south bridge was opened. The tram line that had previously ended in Düsseldorf at the Südfriedhof was extended to Neuss. On October 12, 1929, the then line 16 took the ring traffic from Düsseldorf Central Station via Oberkassel, Heerdt, Neuss, Unterbilk and Graf-Adolf-Platz back to Düsseldorf Central Station.

In 1945, the continuous operation of line 16 had to be stopped due to the Second World War and the associated destruction of the Oberkassel Rhine Bridge . Only in 1948 could operations be resumed with the construction of a new temporary bridge over the Rhine. This bridge remained in place until the cable-stayed bridge was rebuilt in 1976.

The ring line was later split up into lines 16 and 26. Line 16 ran from Düsseldorf via Oberkassel to Neuss and ended at Neuss City Hall. Line 26 took over the southern part and ran from Düsseldorf main station via Unterbilk, Südbrücke, and Stadthalle Neuss to today's Theodor-Heuss-Platz at Neuss main station . On May 27, 1972, lines 16 and 26 were combined to form line 5.

In the 1980s, the ring traffic was cut forever. Line 5 remained on the northern part of the ring that ran through Oberkassel. A new line took over the southern part over the south bridge. With the opening of the inner city tunnel in 1988, line 5, which was renamed 705 when the VRR was founded in 1980, disappeared underground. It now ran from the Neusser Stadthalle via Neuss Hbf, Heerdt, Oberkassel, through the inner city tunnel, on via the Stahlwerkstrasse ramp. to the Düsseldorf-Oberbilk / PhilipsHalle S- stop and back. With the opening of the tunnel extension from the main train station to Ronsdorfer Strasse on September 26, 1993, the line became the new U75 light rail line and got a new terminal in Eller .

The last change to this line took place in September 1999. The U75 no longer runs through Neuss city center and has since ended at Neuss main station. For this purpose, a new sweeping track was built south of the stop or Krefelder Straße. Since then, the route through the city center to Neuss town hall has only been served by tram line 709, which continues to connect Neuss with Düsseldorf via the Josef-Kardinal-Frings-Brücke (formerly Südbrücke).

literature

• Volkmar Grobe: Düsseldorf light rail. From the beginnings of track-guided traffic to the rapid transit railway connecting cities . Ek-Verlag, Freiburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-88255-848-7 .