Wuppertal Railway
| Lennep – Krebsöge – Rauenthal | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 VzG route 2703 between Remscheid-Lennep and Wuppertal-Rauenthal
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| Route number (DB) : | 2703 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course book section (DB) : | last 403 (Krebsöge – Rauenthal) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 20.7 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Route number (DB) : | 2704 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course book section (DB) : | last 403 (Krebsöge-Radevormwald) 229b (1964) |
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| Route length: | 18.8 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Oberbrügge – Wipperfürth | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route number (DB) : | 2814 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course book section (DB) : | last 229b ( schlag – Bruges, 1964) 228n (1944) |
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| Route length: | 19.2 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Wuppertal Railway is a historic railway line of Wuppertal-Oberbarmen (formerly Barmen-Rittershausen) about Radevormwald , the wedge stations Krebsöge and stop and Halver after Oberbrügge with a total length of around 43 kilometers. The original main line from Krebsöge to Remscheid-Lennep became a branch line, a second branch line connected the stop with Wipperfürth on the Wippertal Railway .
The Wuppertal Railway was last listed by the Deutsche Bundesbahn as route book 403. On May 27, 1971, the Dahlerau train accident occurred on the Wuppertal Railway, the worst of the German Federal Railways at that time.
history
Planning and construction
The Wuppertal Railway was opened on February 1, 1886, when the first section of the line from the Lennep railway junction with its connections from Cologne , Barmen - Elberfeld , Solingen and Gummersbach to Krebsöge went into operation. It was extended to Dahlerau on December 1 of the same year . Reason for building the increased requirements were at a viable transport infrastructure of the burgeoning industry on the Wupper (see Wupper villages ). In order to avoid the threat of relocation, the Prussian government passed a law on May 21, 1883 under pressure from the local manufacturers and municipalities to build this railway line.
Almost two years later the line was extended to Barmen- Rittershausen (today Wuppertal-Oberbarmen), where there was now a connection to the Wuppertal main line of the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft . Another year later, the section Krebsöge-Radevormwald was opened. This created one of the most scenic stretches in the region, which rose from the bottom of the Wupper valley at 180 meters to 360 meters in Radevormwald and made a mountain railway-like impression on travelers with a change in slopes, deep cuts and bridges.
The remainder to Oberbrügge was opened on July 1, 1910 at the same time as the route fromschlag to Wipperfürth. Further railway construction plans were no longer implemented due to the First World War. The plans to drive from Radevormwald via Ennepetal-Altenvoerde directly to Hagen were well advanced, and a railway construction was also being discussed from Wipperfürth in the direction of Cologne, which would have made a railway connection Lüdenscheid –schlag – Cologne possible. A field railway was used by Radevormwald for the construction of the Ennepetalsperre .
Development after 1945
After the Second World War, the Wupper Bridge in Dahlerau had to be rebuilt. The first to be closed in 1956 was the Lennep – Krebsöge section (popularly known as the Krebsöger Blitz ). With the advent of omnibus traffic, it had lost its importance. A direct train connection required a transfer to Krebsöge and was significantly longer than the bus route on federal road 229 . In addition, the Krebsöger Blitz ran a long stretch parallel to Bundesstraße 229 and would have hindered its expansion. The freight train traffic , which was still important for industry at the time, could easily take place via Wuppertal. As on many branch lines , train traffic on the Wuppertal Railway was mainly carried out with rail buses after its introduction . The middle section between Radevormwald and Halver was shut down as early as the mid-1960s, thereby discontinuing the direct connection between the Bergisches Land and the Brandenburg Sauerland. Shortly before the shutdown, however, a severe winter on the federal road 229 from Radevormwald to Halver caused such frost damage that the rail bus traffic that was already dominant here (1963: 15 pairs of buses, one pair of trains) had to be replaced by trains at short notice.
Shortly before the Rhein-Ruhr transport association started operating on January 1, 1980, the section of the Wuppertal Railway, which had been used by a pair of trains since 1976, was shut down in 1979, as were numerous other branch lines (including in the region: Wuppertal – Hattingen , Gevelsberg – Witten ). The Deutsche Bundesbahn justified this with the grandfathering that it had to give up for existing routes when the VRR started operations, and previously parted with allegedly unprofitable connections.
From 1982 the Wuppertalsperre was built between Krebsöge and Kräwinkel , the train stations Krebsöge and Kräwinklerbrücke sank into the water. Alternative routes, as already built in 1964 at Biggesee , were discussed but not implemented. When the construction of the Wuppertalsperre was already in progress, the tracks from Radevormwald to Halver were also dismantled, so that with the cessation of freight traffic in 1980 and the dismantling of the tracks to Wilhelmstal, the city lost its direct rail connection.
Todays situation
Today the Wuppertal Railway is only used on a few sections. The section between Beyenburg and Wilhelmstal before Krebsöge is used in summer as a Wuppertrail with bicycle trolleys . Museum trains will also be rolling later. The fish belly bridge over the Wupper in Beyenburg was repaired by the friends' association and received an official inspection and operating permit. Together with the Bergischer Ring , the purchase of the railway line to the Rauenthal junction has been completed.
In Dahlhausen (Wupper) is located Museum Bahnhof Dahlhausen (Wupper) .
The section between Halver and Oberbrügge was reactivated briefly by the Schleifkottenbahn GmbH. Initially, the intention was to set up a hiking and cycling path on the section, but since 2015 a trolley has been operated there instead.
Until the end of the 1990s, the products of the Erfurt paper and wallpaper factory near Oberdahl were shipped by freight trains between Wuppertal-Laaken and Wuppertal-Beyenburg. However, a slide of the embankment made the route, which had been completely renovated only a few years earlier with the help of grants, impassable. Although the damage was only a few meters away, there was no financing to repair it, and so this freight traffic had to be stopped. This forced the Erfurt paper mill to move raw material deliveries from rail to road at short notice.
A cycle path runs along the railway line from the former “Am Kreuz” stop to the Wuppertalsperre at Kräwinkel. However, the last stretch after Kräwinkel is closed due to a rock fall. In Radevormwald, the bypass road was built on the railway line.
Since November 23, 2009 the Rhein-Sieg-Eisenbahn (RSE) has been the railway infrastructure company for the section Krebsöge - Wuppertal-Beyenburg . After the Friends' Association bought the Wuppertal-Beyenburg - Wuppertal-Rauental section at the end of December 2012 , the RSE also took over the operation for this in October 2013.
In 2020 it became known that in Radevormwald and Wuppertal there were also plans to reactivate the Wuppertal Railway between Wuppertal and Radevormwald for local rail transport. Funds from Regionale 2025, which will take place in the Bergisches Rhineland, could be used for this purpose.
The Zweckverband Nahverkehr Westfalen-Lippe is planning a feasibility study to reactivate the railway line between Halver and Oberbrügge.
Time mirror
Openings
The Lennep - Krebsöge section was opened on February 1, 1886, the Krebsöge - Dahlerau section was opened on December 1, 1886, and the Dahlerau - Beyenburg section was opened on November 1, 1888. Exactly one year later, the Dahlerau - Radevormwald section was opened, and on February 3, 1890, the Beyenburg - Oberbarmen (Rittershausen) section was opened. The last reason to celebrate for a long time was the opening of the Oberbrügge --schlag - Wipperfürth section on July 1, 1910, as well as the branching off line to Radevormwald. At the end of 2000, the state of North Rhine-Westphalia approved the operation of the Schleifkottenbahn GmbH railway company and the company bought the Halver - Oberbrügge section.
Shutdowns
| date | Shutdown |
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| November 21, 1956 | Suspension of passenger and freight traffic between Lennep and Krebsöge |
| June 29, 1960 | Suspension of passenger and goods traffic between Wipperfürth and stop |
| May 30, 1964 | Suspension of passenger traffic between Radevormwald and the stop |
| 29th September 1968 | Suspension of freight traffic between Radevormwald and Halver |
| May 28, 1976 | Suspension of passenger traffic between Krebsöge and Radevormwald |
| December 28, 1979 | Suspension of passenger traffic between Wuppertal-Oberbarmen and Krebsöge |
| 1980 | Suspension of freight traffic from Dahlhausen to Radevormwald |
| 1982 | Dismantling of the tracks from Radevormwald to Wilhelmsthal |
| 1989 | Suspension of freight traffic between Wilhelmstal and Remlingrade |
| 1993 | Cessation of freight traffic between Remlingrade and Beyenburg |
| July 31, 1995 | Suspension of freight traffic between Halver and Oberbrügge |
| January 4, 1999 | Suspension of freight traffic between Wuppertal-Beyenburg and Wuppertal-Langerfeld |
Picture gallery
Wuppertal-Rauenthal
Wuppertal-Beyenburg railway station
Dahlhausen (Wupper) train station, Radevormwald
Wilhelmstal stop, Radevormwald
Bergerhof station, Radevormwald, in 2011, the former platform edge and the route can still be seen
The Oberbrugge train station
Viaduct in Dahlhausen, Radevormwald
Restored " fish belly bridge " over the Wupper in Wuppertal-Beyenburg
See also
literature
- Rudolf Inkeller: The Wuppertal Railway: The railway connection Wuppertal - Radevormwald - Bruges (Westphalia) . Leichlingen 2004, ISBN 3-9806103-7-3 .
- Wuppertal Railways Working Group (Ed.): Wuppertal Transport Knot . EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2008, ISBN 3-88255-249-2 .
- Sascha Koch, Horst Kowalski and others: Railways in Oberberg and the history of the Dieringhausen depot . Galunder Verlag, Nümbrecht 2005, ISBN 3-89909-050-0 .
- Bernd Franco Hoffmann: Disused railway lines in the Bergisches Land . Sutton-Verlag, Erfurt 2013, ISBN 978-3-95400-147-7 .
- Axel Ertelt : Mobility on the siding . Alsdorf 2017, ISBN 978-3-947002-51-1 .
Web links
NRWbahnarchiv by André Joost:
www.bahnen-wuppertal.de:
- Description with many pictures
- Photo series about the railway operation in the urban area of Radevormwald
further web links:
- Entry in: Wuppertal monument list
- Description of the monument on the website of the city of Ennepetal
- Museum Railway Bergische Bahnen / Förderverein Wupperschiene eV
Individual evidence
- ↑ DB Netze - Infrastructure Register
- ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .
- ↑ a b Official notices . In: Newspaper of the Association of German Railway Administrations . 50th year, No. 45 , June 15, 1910, p. 756 .
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from June 26, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ A b Fabian Müller: BBFW buys the Rauental - Beyenburg railway line. (No longer available online.) December 21, 2012, archived from the original on December 12, 2013 ; Retrieved December 7, 2013 .
- ↑ Bike path instead of rail taxi. In: bergstadt-kurier.de. November 5, 2014, archived from the original on March 15, 2015 ; accessed on March 31, 2018 .
- ^ Rüdiger Kahlke: Schleifkottenbahn: The old route becomes the new route for draisines. In: Tach! April 28, 2015, accessed August 7, 2020 .
- ↑ Krebsöge-Beyenburg (a) (Wuppertalbahn, NRW). Rhein-Sieg-Eisenbahn, February 22, 2013, archived from the original on December 11, 2013 ; Retrieved December 7, 2013 .
- ^ List of railway line operators. (XLSX) Federal Railway Authority , December 8, 2017, accessed on March 30, 2018 .
- ↑ Manuel Praest: New approach: rail connection between Rade and Wuppertal. Retrieved July 14, 2020 .
- ↑ Florian Hesse: Rail connection: Is there a chance for train traffic to Halver? In: come-on.de. Märkischer Zeitungsverlag , July 18, 2020, accessed on July 20, 2020 .
