Wanne-Herner Eisenbahn und Hafen

The pan - Herner Eisenbahn GmbH and port ( WHE ) is a rail and port operators from Herne. The company is owned by the city of Herne

History

The community tub and the county Gelsenkirchen founded in 1905, a company named "Channel port pan - Gelsenkirchen -Land", which was planning to build a coal transshipment hub for the surrounding mines in Crange during the planning of the Rhine- Herne Canal and perform. In 1913, the then neighboring town of Herne participated in the project, as a result the company's name was changed to " Hafenbetriebsgesellschaft Herne-Wanne mbH ". The port was opened on 11 November 1914, and reached already in 1916 a handling capacity of over one million tonnes.

In May 1913, the Arnsberg district government had granted the permission to establish between the port and the state railway station on a "next -track-like small car", this connected the new port also with the mine Shamrock 3/4. A little later routes to the mines Carolinenglück in Bochum and Teutoburgia were built in Herne, the Krupp mines and the Hibernia AG connected in the 1920s in Bochum to the railway network.

With the dissolution of the district of Gelsenkirchen in 1926, this and the previously belonging to the municipality tub portion was transferred to the newly founded city of Wanne- Eickel the share capital. Two years later, another harbor will be opened as a random pool of the channel.

The public railway company was called from the year 1957 as a " pan - Bochum- Herne Railway " ( WBHE ), since 1959 called the entire society " pan - Herner Eisenbahn GmbH and port " ( WHE ). Having already since 1952 first diesel locomotives were used, 1963, the last steam locomotives were stored.

Since 1970, whe is a service provider for the Ruhr coal AG, in addition to the coal - mixing system in the western harbor and operation of Steag Group Power Plant Herne were 1972 individual tracks of the WHE and 1984, finally, the main route from the transfer station at the pan - Eickelmann Central Station to the west harbor for RAG- electrified trains.

In 1994, the first plans for a freight village ( LVN ) began in the western harbor. In 1996 performed with the backfilling of the harbor basin first stitch construction for the container terminal, which was taken in 2002 by the whe - subsidiary " Container Terminal Herne " ( CTH ) in operation.

2003, the company workshop of whe was certified by the EBA, from 2005 to the construction of our own workshop in 2008, the trains of Abellio Rail NRW were here waiting.

Since 2010, whe is the industry organization "Network Private Companies ." In 2011, the Stadtwerke Herne took 94.9 % of the company shares.

Operating parts

In previous logo the various operating parts are shown: on a blue background are a yellow anchor ( port operations ), an impeller ( rail operations ) and hammer and chisel (services for the mining industry) shown.

Ports

Since its inception, the company operates the ports bath - tub - East and West, which are located on opposite banks of the Rhine - Herne Canal. Here are along 720 m Loading shore available, where approximately 0.32 million tonnes were handled in 2010. For the envelope whe has a crane with a lifting capacity of 12 tonnes, a locking and loading facilities for dry bulk, a silo for fly ash and a deep bunker.

On the west harbor and the LVN Emscher is next to the bulk cargo to the intermodal terminal.

Railway operation

The WHE operates freight services on a total of 34 km own rail systems and beyond on certain routes on the DB network. For this purpose are (as of 2010 ) eight diesel locomotives are available ( three MaK G 1600 BB, two MaK G 1204 BB, one each MaK G 1202 BB and Deutz KS 55 B and a Windhoff shunting ), also were occasionally rented other machines. The transport performance in 2010 was about 5 million tons, with the largest group of coal and container shipments, besides also the Evonik Degussa in Herne and various smaller businesses are operated in Hafenbreich.

The railway workshop is also located in the western harbor, operating since 1 January 2010 as " ETZ operation GmbH".

Subsidiaries

  • BAV treatment Herne GmbH
  • CTH Container Terminal Herne GmbH
  • ETZ operation GmbH ( Railway Technical Centre Herne )
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