Dortmund–Enschede railway
The train route Dortmund- Enschede ( regionally known as " Westmünsterland train" ) is an international railway line, which was built by the former Dortmund -Gronau - Enschede railway company from Dortmund to Enschede in the eastern Ruhr area in the Netherlands.
History
The Dortmund -Gronau - Enschede Railway Company (short DGE) began the construction of their range east of the city of Dortmund, so that first the main route Dortmund -Hamm the Cologne -Minden Railway Company (short CME) had to be crossed, the Dortmund DGE Station called last station Dortmund Ost.
The first section to the (former) station Lünen North was opened on November 25, 1874, the passenger began more than a week later. Half a year later, the trains were already up Dülmen, also had to deal with the railway line pan - Eickelmann -Hamburg again a range of CME to be crossed, the Dülmen DGE station ( last station Dülmen East) was placed north-west of Cologne -Minden railway station.
The other sections were taken now in rapid intervals in operation, was on August 1, 1875 Coesfeld ( Westphalia ) is reached and on September 30, 1875 Gronau ( Westphalia ), coinciding with the railway line Münster- Enschede the Royal Westphalian Railway Company ( KWE). The last section to Enschede in the Netherlands is built with the KWE in cooperation and opened on 15 October 1875 and operated jointly in the following period.
With the opening of the railway line Duisburg- Quakenbruck by the Rhenish Railway Company four years later also Coesfeld became a junction station. Beginning of the 20th century came with the railway line Empel -Rees -Münster (eastern part also "Tree Mountain Railway" called ), a further range cruising added, whereby the Coesfelder station was a railway junction of western Munster country.
A special feature is the train station Selm - catch. Originally this station was not provided. But since moving to the train home miners from Dortmund and Lünen did not want to take the other way from the station to Selm own apartment, was regularly drawn in the amount of Beifanger route the emergency brake. As the " emergency" braking could not be prevented even by the railway police, in 1946 finally established at the crossing of the railway line with the Sandforter way, another breakpoint, the current station bycatch, which is also called " station emergency brake" in the vernacular.
( temporary ) closure
On the Gronau - Enschede section of people and goods was set on 27 September 1981. After lengthy negotiations, the cross-border passenger traffic was resumed in 2001.
Current situation
The section from Dortmund to Lünen is two-pronged, provided with overhead line and classified as main course.
From Lünen to Gronau limit, the route is single track, not electrified and downgraded to branch line since 2007.
Today, the section Lünen -Gronau limit is part of the DB regional network Münster- East Westphalia (MOW ), headquartered in Münster.
Train services
The route is today served 51 Westmünsterland train every hour from the RB. The train crossings take place in Luedinghausen, Coesfeld and Epe. Because of the one-track arrivals are time offset from the usual symmetry minute to a few minutes. Between Dortmund and Lünen also the RB runs hourly 50 The Lüner in Münster ( Westphalia).
From December 12 2004 to December 10, 2011, the Prignitzer Eisenbahn GmbH operated the passenger with modern diesel railcars of the type of talent. Before that, the DB Regio NRW sailed the line with trains of the series 624 The line was advertised as part of the diesel network Western Munsterland under the auspices of SMICTOM transport Westphalia -Lippe ( NWL ). Since December 11, 2011, DB Regio Westphalia operates this line. As vehicles come as before with the railway Prignitzer modernized diesel railcars of the type of talent DB used.