Dortmund–Hamm railway

The railway route Dortmund -Hamm is one of the most important and busiest railway lines in Germany. It is the main axis of the rail passenger long-distance, transport and freight between the Ruhr and the northern and eastern Germany.

It is a part of the Cologne -Minden Railway Company (CME ) built trunk route from Cologne - Deutz to Minden, after the company was named. It was opened in 1847 and has since been modernized several times and expanded.

History

After she received the Prussian concession for their eponymous track on 18 December 1843, the Cologne -Minden Railway Company began in the former ( Cologne ) Deutz with the construction of the first section to Dusseldorf, which she was able to open on December 20, 1845.

Only a few weeks later, on February 9, 1846 the second section has already been completed to Duisburg, preliminary endpoint was built on the site of today's Duisburg main station " Cologne -Minden railway station ," the first of three stations later at the same place.

With the next section about Oberhausen, Old Essen, Gelsenkirchen, tub, Herne and Dortmund to Hamm had consciously decided against a route near the former coal mines on the north bank of the Ruhr and to reduce the cost because less hilly and thus easier to be realized path. Nevertheless, it still took well over a year until the May 15, 1847 and this section could go into operation.

In the same year, on 15 October 1847 the last section to Minden and thus the entire 263 -mile, single-track line was completed. On the same day the Royal Hanoverian State Railways opened their rail route between Hanover and Minden.

Extension

The railway route Dortmund -Hamm was since its opening expanded and modernized constantly according to their ever-growing importance for the railway in west-east direction. She is consistently at least two tracks and was provided in the late 1950s over its entire length with electrical overhead line.

The first Federal Transport Plan (1973 ) led the expansion route Dortmund -Hannover- Braunschweig as one of eight planned expansion projects in the field of railways.

In 1986, the scheduled time of operation at 200 km / h was recorded in a 20.1 km long section between Nordbögge ( Hamm ) and Dortmund. In the early 1990s the exception approval was not renewed, the allowed driving on existing crossings with more than 160 km / h. Since then, some of the crossings were replaced by bridges.

The track is equipped since 2005 between the 120.4 and 143.4 kilometers of train control and can be driven with the exception of the section between km 130.4 and 134.1 at 200 km / hr. In between, the speed limit is due to the last two crossings at 160 km / h The conversion of the BU 12 Südkamenerstraße in Kamen, continue for some years, as the necessary land rights do not exist. The plan is an underpass, took place for the first already in 2012 construction work. In this case, the warning signal the entrance was moved and installed a new track separator ( switch for the overhead line ).

Operation

The route is served by the intercity express line 10 from Cologne to Duisburg, Essen, Hannover to Berlin and mostly every two hours of intercity lines or other ICE trains every hour, see also List of Intercity - Express railway stations or list of Intercity railway stations.

In regional transport services, each hourly regional express lines RE 1 "NRW - Express", RE 3 " Rhein- Emscher- Express" and RE 6 " Westfalen- Express", as well as the RE 11 " Rhein- Hellweg - Express". The lines RE 1 and RE 6 only serve the stopover Kamen, see also List of regional railway lines in North Rhine-Westphalia.

Is performed the transport of DB Regio NRW (lines RE 1, RE 6 and RE 11) and by the Euro train (line RE 3 ).

Tariff

The track is located to the train station Kamen in the area of the transport association Rhein-Ruhr ( VRR). In regional traffic between Kamen and Hamm Ruhr -Lippe tariff of the transport association Ruhr -Lippe applies. In addition, transitional arrangements for VRR and Munsterland tariff of the transport association Münster country and cross-regional NRW - tariff apply.