Wuppertal-Vohwinkel–Essen-Überruhr railway

The railway line Wuppertal- Vohwinkel - Essen- Ruhr is a good 30 -kilometer, double-track and electrified throughout mainline. Also known under the name of Prince William Railway route linking the first railway line the valleys of the Ruhr and Wupper.

Construction of the line

Deilthaler railroad corporation

The in 1831 opened precursor route Hinsbeck (Ruhr) (now Food - Kupferdreh ) to Nierenhof ( today Velbert ), the first railway line The Schlebusch - Harkorter coal train was ever on German soil, built by the " Deiltaler railroad corporation" by the Deilbachtal was Although a little older, but was not operated by an organization formed for this purpose, stand-alone company.

Prince William Railway Society

On June 21, 1844, the Prince William Railway Society had received the concession for the expansion of its existing route between Nierenhof and Hinsbeck ( Essen- Kupferdreh ). The line was standard gauge ( 1435 mm) converted until Vohwinkel continued to be built in the south or in the north Überruhr and handed over to the passenger on December 1, 1847.

Bergisch- Märkische Railway Company

After the Bergisch- Märkische Railway Company (short BME) had already carried out the operation of the route since March 27, 1854, she took over on January 1, 1863, the PWE together with their range.

She built the track in north- eastwards by Steele ( meanwhile Steele Hbf, today Essen- Steele Ost, with connection to her three years ago opened railway line Witten / Dortmund -Oberhausen / Duisburg ), and from there along the Ruhr on Dahlhausen (Ruhr ) to Langendreer BME. The railway track Essen- Ruhr- Bochum- Langendreer was opened on June 1, 1863 five months later.

Station head station

Since opening in 1847 the track had to overcome the slope in the " head-end station " in Siebeneicker valley are " made ​​head ", the need for this was in 1868 with the realignment of the track away, the station was closed.

However, the label head station for the area is still in use to this day, the reception building also exists still and is now in private hands.

Ruhrtalbahn

On 1 February 1872, the BME opened the first part of their Ruhrtalbahn, the railway line Dusseldorf - Oberbilk - food - Kupferdreh, 1874 then a further part, the railway line Essen- Ruhr -Hagen - porch (with connection to the main line Elberfeld- Dortmund).

Both routes are no longer linked to the Prince William Railway, the portions of food Kupferdreh to Essen -Werden and Essen- Ruhr about Altendorf (now Food - Burgaltendorf ) to Bochum - Dahlhausen are shut down and dismantled in part.

Current situation

In the 1970s began to develop the central Ruhr - mainline for the S- Bahn Rhein -Ruhr. On 1 February 1978, a direct connection of Essen- Ruhr in Essen - Steele (then still Essen- Steele West) created with the track in 2193 for the first time, at the same time the passenger on the stretch of Essen- Ruhr in Essen - Steele Ost has been set. The new compound curve, just like the old single-track stretch today.

This opens up completely new opportunities By binding revealed. Instead of going to Essen- Steele Ost (then Essen-Steele, formerly Steele Hbf) and further east the trains from Wuppertal - Vohwinkel were coming out from now on to Essen Central Station. The section of Essen- Steele Ost to branch Bochum- Dahlhausen West was acquired by the S- Bahn line S 3 as early as May 26, 1974.

Since December 15, 2003, this route has been upgraded to the S -Bahn and electrified over entire length. The breakpoint Velbert- Rose Hill was rebuilt and the breakpoint Velbert- Neviges laid. In addition, the 1965 disused railway station Aprath was taken as the breakpoint Wülfrath - Aprath again. At the station closed in 1965 also Dornap now remembers nothing more, because the expansion of the old platforms were removed. This gave way to the set up on the total distance electrification.

The S -Bahn line S 9 runs weekdays at 20- minute intervals, on the weekend of 30 -minute intervals from Wuppertal main station coming all the way from Wuppertal- Vohwinkel by Essen- Ruhr and on about the links 2165 and 2193 for food - Steele. From there it continues on Essen Hauptbahnhof to Bottrop Hauptbahnhof and once an hour on to Haltern am See.

The use of vehicles designed to the operating program accordingly always quite uniform. Drove over two decades exclusively from the 212 series and Silberlingen pull trains formed so came from the early 1990s, instead of the required 212 highly efficient diesel locomotives of the series 216 are used. Which remained until May 1998 and was replaced by the 218 series. The operating program of the now designated as RB 49 diesellokbespannten trains Essen Steele Ost the first section of S into operation 9, amended, that this only an hour and drove north from Essen to Borken held by holders between - same time was with holders - Bottrop Food and Bottrop was kept only at major stations. With the electrification of the old operating program was re-established, the route holders - Bottrop - Food - Wuppertal now again forms a unit and is continuously traversed by the S 9. First pull trains from x - cars were strung used with the 143 series on the line, a few months later reinforced the Electrical Multiple Series 420 Since spring 2009, the traffic is now handled completely with the class 422.

In about two years of construction, the platform was elevated in the stop Kupferdreh. The platform was released on August 6, 2012 for the traffic during the acute phase conversion of two weeks were sometimes used buses. The access ramps of the building have a slope of 35 ‰