Duisburg–Dortmund railway

The railway Duisburg -Dortmund is an important and historically significant railway in Germany. She is a principal axis of the rail passenger long-distance - transport and freight transport in the northern Ruhr area, including navigated by Intercity-Express, InterCity, Regional-Express, Regional Bahn and S- Bahn Rhein -Ruhr. At her are the main railway stations of Duisburg, Oberhausen, Gelsenkirchen, pan - Eickelmann and Dortmund and the regionally important railway stations Essen- old food and Herne.

She is the middle part of the Cologne -Minden Railway Company (CME ) built trunk route from Cologne - Deutz to Minden, after the company was named. The line was opened in 1847 and has since been modernized several times and expanded. Today it is two-to four-track, electrified and are classified as main course.

History

After she received the Prussian concession for their eponymous track on December 18, 1843, the CME began in the former ( Cologne ) Deutz with the construction of the first section to Dusseldorf, which she was able to open on 20 December 1845. A few weeks later, on February 9, 1846, already the second section was completed in Duisburg, preliminary endpoint was built on the site of today's Duisburg main station " Cologne -Minden railway station ," the first of three stations later the three largest, nominally private Railroad companies in 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 the smoother and more cost-efficient and easier to be realized route. 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.

Spur track after (Duisburg ) Ruhrort

From Oberhausen train station (now Oberhausen Hbf) from built the CME in 1848 a branch railway to Ruhrort to the local docks and agreed with the Ruhrort - Crefeld circle Gladbach Railway Company to build the railway Trajektes Ruhrort -Homberg.

Oberhausen- Netherlands

The Oberhausen train station was also the starting point, which opened on October 20, 1856 railway line to Arnhem via Wesel and Emmerich am Rhein, mistakenly called " Holland route ," although strictly speaking they already ends in Gelderland.

Venlo and Ruhr -Hamburg

The tub station ( today Wanne-Eickel Hbf) was then from 1 January 1870, the starting point for the railway line to Hamburg, sometimes misleadingly called " runway ". This railway line to the German North Sea coast was part of the Paris - Hamburg Railway, which was also built by the CME as Hamburg- Venlo railway under Prussian concession.

" Emscher Valley Railway "

Almost parallel to their regular route built the CME to enhanced accessibility of the coal mines and prosperous industrial plants 1871-1878 along the Emscher a further distance from Duisburg to Dortmund Osterfeld Süd and pan through the northern Ruhr area.

Current situation

The railway Duisburg- Dortmund since its opening expanded and modernized constantly according to their increasing importance for the migrated from the central Ruhr area to the north coal mining. Today the route is electrified at least two tracks and complete its entire length.

The route is today compared to the other east-west connections - especially the central Ruhr route of the former Bergisch- Märkischen Railway Company - of less importance, but has all the same - even in contrast to the Rhenish Railway - to this day as an important axis can claim. Urgently needed, but not carried out modernization measures prevent far more intensive use of the track, so the S-Bahn S 2 moves in parts only once per hour.

Located near the World Heritage Zollverein S- Bahn stop eating Katernberg South was renamed in Essen- Zollverein Nord 2009.

Train services

The long-distance trains use only sections:

The section from Duisburg Hbf to Oberhausen Hbf is traversed by trains of three intercity express lines, usually on the way to Amsterdam, in addition to on their way to Emmerich from the Regional-Express line RE 5 " Rhein- Express", as well as Regional rail lines RB 35 and RB 33 (the latter only to Wesel ).

The all two hours circulating intercity line 35 uses a large part of the route from Duisburg Hbf to pan -Eickel Hbf There are also more isolated IC of the lines 26 and 32, the regional train RE 2 " Rhein- Haard - Express", as well as the regional train RB 42 and RB 46 on the section of Gelsenkirchen Hbf to pan -Eickel Hbf

Is traveled over entire length, the distance only of the regional express line RE 3 " Rhein- Emscher- Express", which in their complete driving distance from Dusseldorf Hbf to Hamm ( Westphalia ) Hbf the route of the main line of the Cologne -Minden Railway Company followed.

The S -Bahn line S 2 runs in regular 20 -minute intervals only on the section between Herne and Dortmund- Mengede, from there to Dortmund it uses the route to Dortmund south of the former Royal Westphalian Railway Company. In Herne one train per hour takes the path to Recklinghausen Hbf on the track piece of Gelsenkirchen Central Station to Herne drives them in alternating 20/40-Minuten-Takt, one train per hour bends in Gelsenkirchen Central Station to Essen Hbf from. Only one out of three trains per hour ( thus every hour ) runs almost the entire historical range between Duisburg and Dortmund Hbf Main Station

Tariff

The entire route is in the territory of the transport association Rhein- Ruhr. For trips in all regional trains of the regional VRR tariff and the NRW rate applies.

Trivia

Along the railway line Duisburg -Dortmund it cums twice to the otherwise rather rare set that two main railway stations contiguous, ie without another station or breakpoint between them. Firstly, this Duisburg Hbf and Oberhausen Hbf, on the other Gelsenkirchen Hbf and pan - Eickelmann are Hbf

Another oddity latter is probably the only Hauptbahnhof that does not carry their name as the main railway station of the city. Pan -Eickel Hbf in Herne is of greater importance than the Herne station. This has historical reasons: The train station of Herne had never been the main railway station, as the city of Herne and the train station were insignificant from the perspective of the web. The station of the formerly independent village tub was, however, since commissioning of the " runway " of ever-increasing importance and has been the merger of several villages to the city of Wanne- Eickel to the main train station. After the incorporation of pan - Eickelmann in the city of Herne, it left the German Federal Railroad in the ancestral name to the one to keep the main station of the city further in the "rank " of a central station, and on the other to save yourself the cost of renaming.