Welver–Sterkrade railway
Left kilometer according WfE, right column S -Bahn new * Tower station planned: S 5 ↔ Dortmund Hagen ** Tower station, S -Bahn deep: S 1 to Bochum
The railway line Welver - Sterkrade is a formerly continuous rail route from the Westphalian Welver after Sterkrade in the western Ruhr area, today only four cuts in operation. Due to its course along the Emscher it was also called " Westphalian Emscher Valley Railway ".
The sections of Unna- Königsborn for former Dortmund South Railway Station and from Dortmund - Dorstfeld to Dortmund - Mengede are now expanded throughout as two-track electrified main railway line and serve as a route for the S- Bahn Rhein -Ruhr (lines S 2 and S 4).
There are also two in each case only a few kilometers long sections in Gelsenkirchen and Bottrop and Oberhausen, which has always been used exclusively for the carriage of goods.
- 2.1 Bodelschwinghstraße - Bismarck
- Horst 2.2 - Sterkrade
- 2.3 Welver - Königsborn
History
The line was built by the Royal Westphalian Railway Company ( WfE ) to make the connection to their hitherto mainly the north and east route network leading to the Ruhr area in the west with its lucrative mines and industrial plants.
Werl - Dortmund
Already in 1847 the Cologne -Minden Railway Company had the part Dortmund- Hamm opened their regular route, they followed south parallel to the railway line in 1855 Dortmund- Soest Bergisch- Märkischen Railway Company.
The WfE solidified their own route from Werl to their railway Hamm- Warburg between the two existing routes through and opened on 15 May 1876, the first section to Dortmund. The Westphalian Railway Station was built in the immediate vicinity of two years previously established station of the Rhenish Railway Company ( RhE ), at the time endpoint both the railway line along the Wupper from Dusseldorf as well as the railway line along the Ruhr from Osterath. After the nationalization of the railway companies the result was what today is now disused Dortmund South Station.
Dortmund - Mengede
The RhE had already released on November 19, 1874, the last part of their Ruhr distance of Dorstfeld for passenger traffic. From common Dortmund station from the WfE ( 1920 Bahnhof Dortmund- Huckarde South) and Bodelschwinghstraße WfE initially built to Dorstfeld parallel to the Rhine route own freight line over Huckarde WfE ( last Dortmund- Bodelschwinghstraße, now demolished ) to Mengede (now Dortmund- Mengede ) and she opened September 1, 1878.
Through this planned from the outset as branch line connection to Mengede the WfE got to Hamm another connection to the network of the Cologne -Minden Railway Company (CME ), which in the course of construction their regular route between Duisburg and Dortmund in 1848 set a breakpoint in Mengede had set up.
Bodelschwinghstraße - Sterkrade
- Track, " 16": August 20, 1879 (GV ) Bodelschwinghstraße - Crange ( Shared route 2153 from BME to Bismarck )
- Route 2246: February 12, 1879 (GV ) Bismarck - Hugo
- Route 2246: August 20, 1879 (GV ) Hugo - Horst North
- Route 2246: November 12, 1879 (GV ) Horst North - Osterfeld WfE
- Track, " 18" : March 15, 1880 ( GV ) Osterfeld WfE - Sterkrade WfE
Closures
Shortly after the nationalization of nominally private railway companies, the Prussian State Railways have taken several sections again out of service.
Bodelschwinghstraße - Bismarck
The section between (Dortmund ) Bodelschwinghstraße and Crange was decommissioned on 1 July 1882.
The tracks between Castrop- Pöppinghausen and Herne were first subsequently used as a port of the former Zeche Friedrich the Great, as well as connecting track of pits and the pits 3/4/6 1/2.
This section has been completely dismantled before 1892, built on its route until 1906 the branch channel of the Dortmund- Ems Canal, the northern part of which is today called the Rhine -Herne Canal, the southern part was filled, and for the construction of the federal highway 42 utilized.
Horst - Sterkrade
The section between Horst (Northern ) and ( Oberhausen ) Sterkrade was decommissioned on 15 October 1884 to 1892 completely scaled back, the former route is still marked on Ordnance Survey of this year.
The section between Horst and Osterfeld was taken on October 1, 1901 back into service and later partly used for the Hamm Osterfelder web. After the Second World War, the section was shut down by the Bottrop Hauptbahnhof again and sold 1968-1983 in part, as well as broken down in the area of Bottrop main freight depot.
The route between the Oberhausen Osterfeld districts and Sterkrade along the Westphalian road and the Richard -Wagner -Allee is with a little imagination still be seen on aerial photographs.
Werl - Königsborn
The eastern section from Welver after ( Unna ) Königsborn was dismantled after closure on 29 September 1968, converted into its western part in a hiking trail.
In the renovated reception hall of the station Lenningsen a kindergarten was established.
Current situation
The sections Unna King Born- Dortmund Südbf and Dortmund- Dorstfeld -Dortmund- Mengede were prepared together with the Rhine section Dortmund Südbf -Dortmund- Dorstfeld in the 1990s for the S -Bahn completely new and partly equipped with a new VzG number.
Today, S 4 moves on the section of Unna- Königsborn to Dortmund- Dorstfeld, as well as the S 2 on the section of the Dortmund- Dorstfeld to Dortmund - Mengede. Both lines run at 20-minute standard timing.
The section between Gelsenkirchen- Bismarck or the branch Hugo and Gelsenkirchen -Horst North is now a single-track and non-electrified freight main line and establishes the connection to the network of the RBH Logistics GmbH.
The section between Bottrop Hbf and Oberhausen- Osterfeld Südbf today as part of the railway line Oberhausen- Osterfeld Süd -Hamm a double-track electrified and freight main line and establishes the connection of the two freight yards.
Planning
In the Arnsberg district government made plans that were previously served only at this railway S -Bahn stop Dortmund West to expand a stop at the S -Bahn route Hagen- Dortmund.
Tariff
Passenger traffic on the road sections still in use is included in the transport association Rhein-Ruhr ( VRR). For journeys within the composite area is, therefore, entirely of composite tariff applies. For trips across the network boundaries, a transitional tariff, the NRW tariff or the general German railway tariff applies.
Trivia
On May 25, 1965 stayed Queen Elizabeth II during her first visit to Germany on Lenningsen station in their special train.