Duisburg-Meiderich Nord–Hohenbudberg railway

The railway line Meiderich North Hohenbudberg is a former primarily used by freight rail line in Germany from Meiderich North Station to the freight depot Hohenbudberg with branch line to the former Rhenish Prussia station.

It connects today as railway Oberhausen West Meerbeck the goods station Oberhausen West on the freight line from Duisburg- Wedau to Bottrop Süd with the branching point ( Moers ) Meerbeck on the Lower Rhine route.

History

Following closure of the Trajekts Ruhrort -Homberg on May 19, 1907 Although a simple ferry over the Rhine was for passenger maintained for freight but had to find another solution, as well as the Duisburg- high fields railway bridge could be reached only indirectly.

The Prussian state railways began the construction of their new track in Meiderich Nord train station on the railway line Ruhrort -Dortmund. She led the midst of the densely populated areas of Ruhrort and Beeck through and crossed the Rhine between Beeckerwerth and Baerl over the house Knipp railway bridge.

In Baerl station, the track forked level free, a branch line ran west to the Rhine Prussia station on the Lower Rhine line (direction North ). The actual distance in turn led centrally between the densely populated areas of Homberg and Moers through. They met in the amount of the branching point Asberg on the Lower Rhine line (direction south) and followed this up to the branching point oestrum.

After the railway line Ruhrort -Mönchengladbach cross was it about the Bergheim Station east of Toeppersees for freight and shunting yard Hohenbudberg. In this form, the route was opened on October 1, 1912 for freight.

A year later, an additional connection from the branch office Buschmannshof over the station Meiderich South was taken to the freight station Oberhausen West into operation on 1 September 1913.

Between 1917 and 1920 the Rhenish Prussia station was decommissioned in favor of half a mile further north breakpoint Utfort. 1923, the branch line was then swung south to the newly established branch office Meerbeck.

Passenger

Having now described the structural requirements for a continuous connection had been created on May 29, 1929, the passenger of Oberhausen Hbf via Duisburg -Meiderich South one hand, the train station, and opened the other hand for Moers station from Oberhausen- Osterfeld Süd station on Meiderich North Station.

The people across Meiderich North was reinstated already on 2 October 1932. About Meiderich South, however, he ran on, apart from the time the end of the Second World War, in which the house - Knipp - railway bridge was destroyed.

Since the 1960s, the passenger was on the track performed only by battery railcar of the DB Class ETA 150 and then adjusted now finally on 23 September 1983.

Current situation

The section between Baerl and Hohenbudberg was decommissioned on 25 August 1969 over a year later, on 1 October 1970 saw section between Meiderich North and the branching point Buschmannshof. All tracks have now been completely dismantled.

The remaining stretch has since been tied by the freight station Oberhausen West to the branching point Meerbeck on the Lower Rhine route and via the freight station of Duisburg- Beeck. This was planned as a marshalling yard despite largely completed earthworks taken as a provisional arrangement with about 15 tracks in operation and has not been rebuilt after destruction in the Second World War. Today, a total of four tracks of which are retained, which is separated a siding, the other since October 2013 for traffic again after a long period of prohibition. The DRS2 interlocking is remotely controlled from the signal box Mathilde in Oberhausen West.

As of 1998, the northern bridge track was out of service, the freight was single track between the former breakpoint of Duisburg- Beeckerwerth and the control center over Duisburg- Baerl instead. Construction work on re-starting the second track began in May 2012, with completion in December 2012 accounted for the operating agency Duisburg- Baerl.

Chainage

Now Due to the relocation of the route it takes today to one kilometer jump in the amount of home - Knipp - bridge, where the chainage jumps from 3,800 to 13,070 ( the same regional border of the former Federal Railway Directorates Cologne and Essen ).