Bocholt–Wesel railway

The railway line Wesel -Bocholt (also called Bocholt Railway, ) is a single-track branch line in North Rhine -Westphalia from Wesel on the Lower Rhine to Bocholt in Westmünsterland.

History

Already in the middle of the 19th century had plans to Bocholt to connect (including cotton industry ) to the new railway network, the 1856 opened Holland haul the Cologne -Minden Railway Company (CME ) but resulted from Wesel along the Rhine in Bocholt over over Emmerich am Rhine to Arnhem. Several initiatives brought Cologne and Münster business not on the required capital for its own railway line.

On May 26, 1875 finally received the CME the concession for the construction of a branch line from Wesel to Bocholt, which was opened July 1, 1878 for passenger traffic.

The two years later opened railway line Winterswijk -Bocholt the Dutch Westphalian Railway Company made ​​from the terminus a through station. Another ten years later, after the nationalization of most private railway companies, Bocholt was by building the tree mountain path of the Prussian state railways of Empel -Rees to Münster ( Westfalen) even for crossing station.

Since the end of the 20th century, with the closure of these two routes of Bocholt station again railhead.

Operation

The route is operated in the transport of the regional train RB 32 " The Bocholt ". There are connections to the regional train RE 5 " Rhein- Express" in Oberhausen, Duisburg and on to Koblenz in Wesel.

Will be conducted of rail transport by DB Regio NRW every hour, on Saturday afternoons and Sunday mornings every two hours. Used diesel railcar DB Class 628.4, which may just 80 km / h despite its maximum speed of up to 120 km / h on this track.

In freight transport, the siding of the precast concrete plant max Bögl in Hamminkeln is operated. The function of ongoing construction projects, mostly tunnels, necessary journeys leads the Bocholt Railroad Company, Inc. on behalf of DB Schenker by. Following itself is stationed by the precast concrete works a switcher.

The track is now part of the DB regional network Münster- East Westphalia (MOW ), headquartered in Münster.

In the local press was on 16 May and 20 May 2011 that the transport association Rhein- Ruhr has been a feasibility study which will examine the electrification of the railway Bocholt. After the expansion, if necessary, the operation of the regional train RB 32 is set and the regional train RB 33 is to be extended. This extension has, according to the terminus Bocholt is a continuation in the future with a umsteigefreien connection to the Ruhr. In January 2012, a feasibility study was prepared. In a press release dated March 22, 2013 for the award of the Lower Rhine network to Abellio Rail GmbH from 2016 VRR announced that the feasibility study for the electrification of the Bocholt web have been much more positive than expected. So this electrification would cost at a minimum speed of 80 km / h ' only ' 12 million euros, with a design speed of 100 km / h 15 million euros, which is far below the initial estimates of 20 million euros. With the electrification of the railway Bocholt would be integrated into the Lower Rhine network. The aim of the further planning of the VRR is to complete the electrification to December 2016.

Gallery

Breakpoint Blumenkamp

Station Dingden

Station Bocholt