Dortmund rail freight bypass

The freight rail bypass Dortmund is a railway line in the north of the city of Dortmund, designed solely for the carriage of goods. Freight trains pass through the Dortmund are routed through this bypass path at the Central Station past, whereby an impairment of the passenger traffic as well as a threat to the city center is avoided by dangerous accidents.

Route Mengede - Scharnhorst

In 1903 the Prussian State Railway has opened two track from the start line between Mengede and the Bahnhof Dortmund- Scharnhorst. The route from threaded to the branching point of the leading Cute from Herne to Dortmund Hauptbahnhof former main line of the Cologne -Minden Railway Company.

At the branching point Deusen she meets the one on the disused link to the former Dortmund freight station which is directly north is parallel to today's railway Duisburg -Dortmund. Secondly, it applies to those described in the following section link to the branch office bush road on the route of the former Royal Westphalian Emscher Valley Railway from Dortmund Bodelschwinghstraße to Dortmund - Huckarde South, which is now used by the S-Bahn line S2 S-Bahn Rhein- Ruhr.

From there it passes through the rural north of the city of Dortmund initially in the immediate vicinity of the former Zeche Fürst Hardenberg in the direction of Upper Eving. There is the only one in Dortmund still operated by Railion freight station, which serves as a transfer station for the Port of Dortmund railway and for further transfer trips in the area. The hump on his head West, however, is shut down. In the immediate neighborhood south of it there is a goods station of Dortmund railway, which also operates the traffic in the Westfalenhütte and on the port rail. Here branch or chain connecting two curves for railway route Dortmund - Enschede and two routes to the port and to Zeche Fürst Hardenberg from, which are described in detail below.

About the factory premises of Westfalenhütte and on the southern edge of Scharnhorst along the Bahnhof Dortmund- Scharnhorst is finally reached, which was referred to 1928-1986 after the nearby airfield Brackelsberg as " Dortmund Airport ".

Since 1963 ( Cute top Eving ) or 1965 ( upper Eving - Scharnhorst ) the track is electrified, it is active to this day in the regional and - driven on at national freight transport - especially on weekends because of the shut-down of the Hamm- Osterfelder web. She also serves on closed roads in the Dortmund main station as a detour route for passenger traffic. All passenger between the pan - Eickelmann or Dortmund Hbf and Hamm several weekends diverted via Dortmund top Eving - Thus, in the years 2006 and 2008 - due to construction in the area of the main station.

In the years 2008 and 2009, the bridge over the Dortmund -Ems canal was completely renewed and increased due to mining subsidence, for this reason the track was temporarily west of Upper Eving not passable. The supra-regional goods traffic was diverted wide area, the regional freight drove over Scharnhorst and from there part by the Dortmund main station, which was thus prohibited from short-term road closures for the first time used since the opening of the bypass route for the planned freight. The railway crossing Lindenhorster road was through an underpass of the new Lindenhorster ring road in autumn 2008 redundant and decommissioned, only a crossing opportunity for pedestrians will remain here.

Route Huckarde South Deusen

With only 2.3 kilometers of track length, the link from the branch to the branch Deusen bush road is one of the shortest railroads in Dortmund. It was built in 1942 to provide a direct connection of the bypass path with its so important to freight stations in the north of the Dortmund urban area to the train stations in the southwest of Dortmund.

The link led directly to today used only as a connecting several routes freight station Dortmund- Huckarde South, who in 1878 opened the Royal Westphalian Railway Company, together with the Dortmund South Bodelschwinghstraße, as well as cream on the railway line Ruhrort -Dortmund.

In 1965, the stretch of South Huckarde was to Deusen electrified, three years later, however, the two remaining route branches after cream and Bodelschwinghstraße shut down, so that the branching point bush road could be closed down.

With the conversion to the S- Bahn line from Dortmund - Huckarde to Dortmund - Mengede this in 1986 but was re-established. However, only one switch is relocated, so trains from Deusen must run from branch to Huckarde South Railway Station on the left track, so opposite to the actual direction of travel. Shortly after the branch shares the main track, the rest of the route is expanded to double track.

About 1.2 miles further found another peculiarity: Here the freight line crosses the line at ground level U47 Stadtbahn Dortmund, both routes are electrified with different current systems. A crossing guard is in charge here on two routes for securing the train rides, train rides in the rail will except with signals also prevented with barriers at the crossing of the freight line. To avoid interference, as well as the overall direction is switched off by the each not busy track. Already for a long time thought about to discontinue this intersection and to build an over or underpass for the rail line, however, such a construction project is not currently specifically provided.

After crossing the Emscherallee the site of the former coking plant Hansa is happening before the track at the tap point Deusen in the route of Mengede to Upper Eving opens. Despite the electrification of the route for freight transport does not play a prominent role, many trains from or towards Bochum and Witten to go via pan - Eickelmann, only a few trains a day pass through this route.

Sidings and connecting curves

As mentioned above, include in Dortmund top Eving station located next to the parallel in the immediate vicinity of the train yard Dortmunder Eisenbahn several connecting curves and tracks to industry connections from. The train route Dortmund- Enschede was from here, both north and south direction will be achieved:

• Shortly after the construction of the line connecting curve of Upper Eving to the south was built in 1906 to Eving station. This curve branches at the eastern station head off in a westerly direction, ie in parallel along the entire train station until it branches off to the south and initially traverses the subsequent goods station of the Dortmunder Eisenbahn. After 2.2 km the Eving station is reached, and the operation of these 1968 electrified curve was adjusted with its decommissioning in 2003.

• A 2.3 km long connecting curve to the branch point Kirchderne contrast branches on the western railway station head off in a northeasterly direction and is still in operation for freight towards Lünen and as a diversion option for the Hamm Osterfelder web. This curve was opened in the year 1942, after the war damage in the city of Dortmund and passenger traffic was handled along here. In 1967, these connecting curve was electrified.

• The connecting train to Zeche Fürst Hardenberg was also classified as a branch line, led by top Eving north parallel to the route tracks to the west until after Eving to the transfer station of the colliery railway, which they reached after 2.3 km. With the closure of the mine also this route in the 1960s was shut down.

• Also classified as a side track was the track from the top Eving station in the port. This branches off at the west station head towards the south and then runs parallel to the main track of the railway to the port Lindenhorst where a switch connection to the port rail is towards the city harbor. Approximately half way was until a few years ago the siding of a metalworking company. From the main road from the port rail, the track continues to Lindenhorster road. This closes directly to the railway siding to the former slag heap in Ellingshausen, where in recent years the European distribution center from Ikea was built. Until the property line here, a track of the port railway runs parallel to Hardenberg harbor. The route to the junction Dortmund Harbour was established in 1967 transformed with the decommissioning of the former freight depot in Lindenhorst legally in a station track.

• Further still leads a siding northeast to a cement plant that has settled on the former site of Westfalenhütte. This branches off from the connecting curve after Kirchderne.

Also at the branching point Deusen -chain addition to the two above-mentioned routes connecting curve from:

• To the south here the Dortmund goods station was tethered near the central station and the depot is located there. The 3.5 km long curve was opened in 1905, shortly after the route from Nice by Scharnhorst, in 1910 built the Prussian state railway operator as a second track. In 1963, the curve was electrified with the " main line " of the freight bypass track, but declined in the following decades, the volume of freight traffic. In 1990, the second track was built back up to the branch Hansa, with the closure of the traffic to and from the train yard next to others this route in 2001 was unnecessary and finally decommissioned in 2004.