Duisburg-Meiderich Süd railway station

• Oberhausen Hbf - Ruhrort ( KBS 447 )
• Oberhausen West Moers- Meerbeck ( last KBS 476)
• Mülheim- Styrum - Ruhrort ( last KBS 448 )

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The station Meiderich South is a regional station in the district of Duisburg Mittelmeiderich in the western Ruhr Area in North Rhine -Westphalia.

It lies on the today only served by passenger rail line Oberhausen -Duisburg- Ruhrort in the amount of the branch of the freight line Oberhausen West Meerbeck.

History

Private railways

The Cologne -Minden Railway Company (CME ) inaugurated on 14 October 1848, a rail line Oberhausen -Duisburg- Ruhrort. This was a branch line to the railway line Duisburg -Dortmund, part of the original route of the Cologne -Minden Railway Company. They should primarily serve to transport coal to the Rhine and was executed sequentially first with no intermediate stops. After the completion of the Ruhr place - Homberger Trajektanstalt on 12 November 1852, the route was interesting to passengers, and so opened the CME in 1856 the breakpoint Meiderich at today's Bahnhofstrasse.

1866 took over the Bergisch- Märkische Railway Company ( BME), the Royal Directorate of Aachen- Dusseldorf - Ruhrorter Railway, together with its railway Ruhrort -Mönchengladbach. Starting from Styrum station extended the BME their Ruhr route first to Meiderich and ten months later to Ruhr place.

Together with the first section opened the BME on January 8, 1867 immediately adjacent to the breakpoint of the CME Meiderich station and built in the same year, the first station building. 1872 extended the BME their range of Styrum after Ruhrort to a second track, in 1881 followed by the second track along the route of the CME CME Oberhausen train station (now Oberhausen central station) to Ruhr place. Thus led now four tracks from the train station Meiderich the Ruhr place.

Prussian State Railways

After the nationalization of the ( at least nominally ) private railway companies and the merger of the individual route networks of the Prussian state railways, the old station building was constructed in 1895 replaced by a new building on today's off- the - mark- road. This has already been torn down in 1910 because the track line was set up to be done without crossing the road. The following year, then the still -existing station building was completed; it is regarded as "one of the best preserved examples ' of the, home style ' built railway building. " In the same year on November 1, 1911, the renamed Meiderich South Station.

At this time, the station became the transport hub north of the Ruhr. 1905 was a connection to the Duisburg- Ruhrorter Hafenbahnhof been created, this was 1908, a second track. On September 1, 1913 followed by the West, the link to the branch office Buschmannshof to a year earlier built railway line Meiderich North Hohenbudberg, and in the east to the train station Oberhausen West ( formerly station Oberhausen RhE ) on the railway line Duisburg- Quakenbruck or railway Duisburg - Wedau Bottrop Süd.

On May 15, 1929 link from the newly constructed Baerl stop on the road to Hohenbudberg was taken to the branching point Meerbeck on the Lower Rhine route into operation on 29 May In 1929 drove the first passenger from South Meiderich to Moers station.

German Federal Railroad

After the Second World War, the second track of the distance from Oberhausen West to Meerbeck ( VzG 2331 ) Meiderich between South and East Meiderich was mined, used in this section primarily from freight transport. But in 1969, the second track of the distance from Oberhausen to Ruhrort ( VzG 2274 ), which mainly served the passengers on this stretch, rededicated to the freight line.

With the distance from Oberhausen West to Meerbeck held on 1 December 1970, the electrification entry into the station, On 14 December 1970 followed the route of Oberhausen Hauptbahnhof. Ten years later, on 28 April 1980 on the routes to and from the port Styrum station were provided with catenary. At this time the station Meiderich South had already lost due to the colliery in the Ruhr dying much of its importance, the ever-increasing road transport over the road did the rest.

On June 30, 1985, the second track of the formerly Bergisch- Märkischen routes between South and Meiderich Ruhr place was dismantled. At the former Cologne -Minden line the second track was dismantled in this section on November 1, 1989.

Already on 23 September 1983 the passenger traffic between Meiderich South and Moers after only 50 years had been discontinued. On April 1, the setting of the traffic carried on the route between Ruhrort and Mülheim (Ruhr ) Styrum; the closure of the route followed on 1 May 1996. This had become necessary due to the construction of the tunnel in the Ruhr Stadtbahn Duisburg. To obtain sufficient space for the ramp leading to light, immediately east adjacent to the railway station embankment of the track to Mülheim (Ruhr ) Styrum has been completely removed.

The freight traffic on the route to Ruhrorter harbor station was moved to a more direct connection to the railway track Duisburg- Wedau Bottrop Süd as of 22 May 1997 the route then decommissioned on 1 March 1999.

Current situation

Of the original five platform tracks, the tracks are only 4 and 5 remained at one island platform. The southern island platform was also dismantled after the removal of the embankment.

The freight line between Oberhausen West and Meerbeck heads north past the platform. To the east of the platform is part of the station branching point Meiderich South, here the freight line is operatively connected to the distance from Oberhausen Hauptbahnhof to Ruhrort on which today takes place only passenger.

The station building with the station forecourt is located south of the railway tracks. Not it is no longer used in its original function for some time. It was sold, here is a catering and since 2012 the practice of a physical therapist. The access tunnel to the platforms ended on since the time of the reception building directly next to this with direct access to the forecourt.

Since the former entrance to the platform was not accessible and a reorganization would not have been economically, the old access tunnel was closed. Instead, a staircase was created along with an elevator directly from the Sing road that passes under the railway station to the east of the station forecourt. The new approach is thus located 100 meters north of the newly created central connection point of bus and light rail.

Location

Unlike the name suggests the station is not in the south of Meiderich, but in the center of the district, on the same level as the current breakpoint Meiderich East and only just located one kilometer south of the former station Meiderich North.

The station forecourt is framed on the north by the reception building, east of the singing street and on the south by the Von-der- Mark Street. The barrier-free access to the platform is controlled from the singing street. At the southern end of the forecourt there is a shortcut hall with several bus stops and the underlying Metro Station Meiderich station.

Operation

In rail transport the train station is only offered by the regional train RB 36, called " Ruhr place - train " operates every half hour. In 2010, the North Western Railway won the tender in 2025 and is a diesel railcar of type LINT 41.

In public transport Metro Station is approached Meiderich station of a light rail line, a tram line and several bus lines:

All the station -use transport lines can be used with the ticket of the transport association Rhein- Ruhr.