Lower Rhine Railway
*) Excluding grip on KBS 498
The Lower Rhine route is a formerly continuous railway on the Lower Rhine in North Rhine -Westphalia.
The route is expanded to double track between (Duisburg ) Rheinhausen and Rheinkamp and classified as railway main line until it runs Xanten further than single-track branch railway line. The last section to Kleve since 1990 out of service. Until Millingen ( in Rheinberg ) the route is electrified with catenary.
Naming
The Lower Rhine line was built in 1903 /04 under the name Hippe -Express of the Prussian state railways. " Hippe " means goat in the Lower Rhine dialect; as a typical pet of the Lower Rhine rural population showed the name of the railway line and the economic structure of the Lower Rhine, which led largely to the end of the total distance.
Course of the route
The 1904 officially opened route that starts at Rhein Bahnhof; there she cares to date at the same level from the railway Osterath - Dortmund Süd the former Rhenish Railway Company ( RhE ) via which it is operationally by committed up to Duisburg Train Station.
On today's Duisburg city they crossed in Trompet station ( also on the same level ), the former railway line Ruhrort -Mönchengladbach, which belonged to before the last nationalization of the former Bergisch- Märkischen Railway Company ( BME).
North of the village Alps it crosses level free first the former railway line holders -Venlo, a section of the " Paris - Hamburg train" the former Cologne -Minden Railway Company (CME ), and shortly thereafter the former railway line Boxtel - Buederich the former North Brabantsch - Duitsche Spoorweg - Maatschappij. The track eventually ended in Kleve station on the left Lower Rhine route (again RhE ).
Partial closure
In the 1980s, many industrial plants and mines in Duisburg and other cities of the Ruhr area were shut down, so that fewer commuters took the track and it was less profitable over time.
Ridership declined so far that the German Federal Railroad decided to abandon a portion of the distance between Kleve and Xanten. Urgent repair works in the northern part were therefore postponed and eventually no longer performed. The passenger traffic on this section was discontinued on 29 December 1989 and the freight service on 28 February 1990, built the track back in 2003.
Since 2010, working on the construction of a bike path on the route. This is so far completed between Xanten and Marie Baum and in due course to Kleve still partly under construction. Completion is expected in 2012.
Service offer
The Lower Rhine route is the transport between Duisburg and Xanten daily at hourly intervals with intersection Moers to the usual symmetry Minute: Mondays to Fridays and Saturdays during the day 31 " The Lower Rhine " used every 30 minutes from the regional train RB 28 and from Duisburg to Moers. The 30 -minute intervals is bound in the Rush Hour with two pairs of trains from or to Xanten.
The rail transport was carried out until December 2009 started by DB Regio NRW, the Bombardier Talent DMU DB Class 643 in single or double traction.
Since December 2009, the North Western Railway took over the local transport services on this route, as it has won the tender of the Nier -Rhein- Emscher- network. For use railcars are of type LINT 41
LINT 41 of the NCA in Trompet Station