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Rhein-IJssel-Express
The Rhein-IJssel-Express is a Regional-Express service in German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the Dutch province of Gelderland. It runs from Düsseldorf to Arnhem, with a section splitting at to serve Bocholt. VIAS operates the service on behalf of Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr (VRR). There are three other international Regional-Expresses in North Rhine-Westphalia: the Maas-Wupper-Express, the LIMAX (''Liège-Maastricht-Aachen-Express'') and the ''euregioAIXpress'' (between Aachen and Spa). History Until December 2016, the service was branded as Regionalbahn line ''Der Weseler'' (RB 35) from Duisburg to Wesel and operated towards Emmerich, Düsseldorf or Cologne during the peak in the peak direction. It was launched in 1998 with the introduction of the NRW-Takt ( Clock-face timetable). The line was operated with 425/426 class sets and sometimes with locomotive-hauled Silberling carriages by DB Regio NRW. Except for a test service that ran from December 2005 to Jun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bocholt Station
Bocholt is a railway station in Bocholt, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is now the terminus of Der Bocholter rail service. In the past trains ran in four directions, including to Winterswijk in the Netherlands. History The station was opened on 1 July 1878 by the Cologne-Minden Railway Company (''Cöln-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft'', CME) together with the Bocholt–Wesel railway, which branched off its Oberhausen–Arnhem railway (known as the ''Hollandstrecke''–"Holland line") at Wesel. Just over two years later, on 25 August 1880, the ''Niederländisch-Westfälische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft'' (Dutch-Westphalian Railway Company) opened the Winterswijk–Bocholt railway and the station became a through station. At the beginning of the 20th century, the Prussian state railways started building the Empel-Rees–Münster railway (''Baumbergebahn''). With the opening of the first section on 1 August 1901, Bocholt became a junction station and with the op ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oberhausen Hauptbahnhof
Oberhausen Hauptbahnhof is a railway station in Oberhausen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The station was opened in 1847 and is located on the Duisburg–Dortmund railway, Arnhem-Oberhausen railway, Oberhausen–Duisburg-Ruhrort railway and Oberhausen-Mülheim-Styrum railway and is served by ICE, IC, RE and RB services operated by Deutsche Bahn, Abellio Deutschland, NordWestBahn and Eurobahn. History The station was opened in 1847 as part of the trunk line of the former Cologne-Minden Railway Company. The first station building at its present location—a simple half-timbered building and loading facility—was named after the nearby Schloss Oberhausen (palace) and opened on 15 May 1847. It was the first station on the territory of the former Bürgermeisterei of Borbeck; the city of Oberhausen did not exist at this time. The station initially serviced the developing heavy industry, centred on the ''Gutehoffnungshütte'' steel works. The entrepreneur Franz Haniel had in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bocholt Railway Station
Bocholt is a railway station in Bocholt, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is now the terminus of Der Bocholter rail service. In the past trains ran in four directions, including to Winterswijk in the Netherlands. History The station was opened on 1 July 1878 by the Cologne-Minden Railway Company (''Cöln-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft'', CME) together with the Bocholt–Wesel railway, which branched off its Oberhausen–Arnhem railway (known as the ''Hollandstrecke''–"Holland line") at Wesel. Just over two years later, on 25 August 1880, the ''Niederländisch-Westfälische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft'' (Dutch-Westphalian Railway Company) opened the Winterswijk–Bocholt railway and the station became a through station. At the beginning of the 20th century, the Prussian state railways started building the Empel-Rees–Münster railway (''Baumbergebahn''). With the opening of the first section on 1 August 1901, Bocholt became a junction station and with the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friedrichsfeld (Niederrhein) Station
Friedrichsfeld is a railway station in Friedrichsfeld, part of Voerde, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The station is located on the Arnhem-Oberhausen railway. The train services are operated by Deutsche Bahn and Abellio Deutschland. History The station appears to have been opened sometime between 1880 and 1886 on the Oberhausen–Arnhem line, which was opened by the Cologne-Minden Railway Company (''Cöln-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft'', CME) on 20 October 1856. It was opened under the name of ''Friedrichsfeld'', but it was renamed ''Friedrichsfeld (Niederrh)'' between 1927 and 1936. Transport services Friedrichsfeld station is served (as of 2020) by the following lines (the Wupper-Lippe-Express operates on weekdays only): Buses It is also served by three bus routes operated by ''NIAG'': * 16 (Friedrichsfeld – Heidesiedlung/Oberemmelsum), 5 times a day * 25 (Friedrichsfeld – Möllen - Dinslaken - Hiesfeld), every 60 minutes * 81 (Wesel – Friedrichsfeld – Spellen â ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Voerde (Niederrhein) Station
Voerde is a railway station in Voerde, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The station is located on the Arnhem-Oberhausen railway. The train services are operated by Deutsche Bahn and Abellio Deutschland. History The station appears to have been opened sometime between 1880 and 1897 on the Oberhausen–Arnhem line, which was opened by the Cologne-Minden Railway Company (''Cöln-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft'', CME) on 20 October 1856. It was opened under the name of ''Vörde'', but it had been renamed ''Vörde (Bez.Düsseldorf)'' by 1905. It was renamed ''Vörde (Niederrh)'' by 1914 and ''Voerde (Niederrh)'' by 1936. Transport services Voerde station is served (as of 2020) by the following lines (the Wupper-Lippe-Express The Wupper-Lippe-Express is an hourly Regional-Express service in German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, which forms part of the Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn. It connects Wesel with Wuppertal Hauptbahnhof via Oberhausen and Essen. The line is operated by ... operat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dinslaken Station
Dinslaken is a railway station in Dinslaken, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The station is located on the Arnhem-Oberhausen railway. The train services are operated by National Express Germany and VIAS. Location and importance The station is located at line-km 13.9 of the Oberhausen–Arnhem railway ( Oberhausen Hbf– Emmerich–Arnhem). It has six mainline tracks, of which tracks 301 and 302 are the main through tracks. The station has a 325-metre-long and 76 centimetres-high island platform (tracks 301/302), while track 304 serves as a passing loop towards Emmerich. Tracks 305 to 307 are sidings. The station precincts are managed by DB Station&Service, which categorised it as a class 3 station. The tracks have been remotely controlled from the Emmerich computer based interlocking since June 2013. The previously responsible relay interlocking "Dif" (class SpDrS60) built in 1975 was abandoned at its opening. The signal box still exists. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oberhausen-Holten Station
Oberhausen-Holten is a railway station in Oberhausen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The station is located on the Arnhem-Oberhausen railway. The train services are operated by Deutsche Bahn and Abellio Deutschland. History The ''Haltestelle Holten (Kr. Ruhrort)'' (Holten (Ruhrort district) halt) was opened in 1886 by the Cologne-Minden Railway Company (''Cöln-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft'', CME) on the Oberhausen–Arnhem line, which had been built on 1 September 1853. A now demolished entrance building was built at that time. The area administered by the mayor of Holten had just been divided into areas administered by the mayor of Sterkrade and by the mayor of Beeck (the smaller, western part) and belonged to the district of Mülheim an der Ruhr. At the turn of the twentieth century, the stop was upgraded to a station of III OR class. After the Holtener Bruch was drained by the channeling of the Emscher, there were plans to build one of the first German airports the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oberhausen-Sterkrade Station
Oberhausen-Sterkrade is a railway station in Oberhausen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The station opened on 1 July 1856, is located on the Arnhem-Oberhausen railway. The train services are operated by Deutsche Bahn and Abellio Deutschland. In 1888 the station building from Köln-Kalk was transferred to Sterkrade. This building was badly damaged during the Second World War, so that a new building had to be erected. This was opened in 1952. It is currently owned by a private investor. Location and layout Oberhausen-Sterkrade station is on the Duisburg-Ruhrort–Dortmund railway (line 2206, Wanne-Eickel Hauptbahnhof – Oberhausen-Sterkrade) and the Oberhausen–Arnhem railway (line 2270, Oberhausen Hauptbahnhof – Emmerich border – Arnhem). The neighbouring stations to the south are Oberhausen Hauptbahnhof (line 2270) and Oberhausen-Osterfeld (line 2206), while Oberhausen-Holten station is the next station to the north. The station has six mainline tracks ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emmerich Station
Emmerich (german: Bahnhof Emmerich) is a railway station in Emmerich am Rhein, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The Station Emmerich station is the German railway station closest to the Dutch border on the Arnhem-Oberhausen railway. It is served hourly by trains operating the Rhein-IJssel-Express between Arnhem and Düsseldorf. The station is largely used by freight and features both the Dutch and German voltages on most tracks. In the past all trains had to change from a Dutch to a German locomotive and vice versa at Emmerich, but now there are more Dual Voltage locomotives that can operate in many countries, so through running often happens now without stopping. The ICE from Amsterdam to Cologne, Frankfurt/Main and Basel all pass through the station without stopping. With the introduction of ICE 3 trains in 2000 the service between the Netherlands and Emmerich stopped, From the timetable change in December 2005, Dutch train operator Syntus started a weekend service between ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duisburg Hauptbahnhof
Duisburg Hauptbahnhof is a railway station in the city of Duisburg in western Germany. It is situated at the meeting point of many important national and international railway lines in the Northwestern Ruhr valley. Lines The station is situated at the northern end of the relatively straight Cologne–Duisburg Railway, Duisburg to Düsseldorf railway line which has to cope with one of the highest daily loads in continental Europe. This line is slated to be widened to six tracks in the near future. Currently it has four—and in some places five—tracks. Parallel to it to the east is the local line to Duisburg-Wedau, remnant of a Troisdorf–Mülheim-Speldorf railway, relief line to Düsseldorf which only sees a local shuttle service today but is heavily used by freight trains (which usually do not run through the station but bypass it on a freight-only line two miles to the east). The third line from the south is the Duisburg-Ruhrort–Mönchengladbach railway, railway line to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Düsseldorf Airport Station
Düsseldorf Airport (''Bahnhof Düsseldorf Flughafen'') is a railway station in Düsseldorf, Germany on the Cologne–Duisburg line that connects Düsseldorf Airport to Düsseldorf-Stadtmitte and long-distance trains, most of them ICE trains. Opened in May 2000, the new railway station has the capacity of 300 train departures per day. History The federal government provided €14.6 million towards the construction of Düsseldorf Airport station. It was inaugurated on 26 May 2000, in the presence of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and Premier of North Rhine-Westphalia, Wolfgang Clement Wolfgang Clement (7 July 194027 September 2020) was a German politician and a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). He was the 7th Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia from 27 May 1998 to 22 October 2002 and Federal .... The station cost DM 125 million to build and went into operation on 28 May 2000. On 1 July 2002, the SkyTrain was opened. The track is 2.5 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Düsseldorf Hauptbahnhof
Düsseldorf Hauptbahnhof is the main railway station of Düsseldorf, the state capital of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. History The station was opened on 1 October 1891. It replaced the three following stations: *the ''Bergisch-Märkische station'' of the Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company (BME), originally opened by the Düsseldorf-Elberfeld Railway Company in 1838 in the area that is now Graf-Adolf-Platz as a through station on the Düsseldorf–Elberfeld railway, company's east–west line from Elberfeld to its station at Rheinknie. *the ''Cologne-Minden station'' which the Cologne-Minden Railway Company (CME) opened in 1845 southeast of the BME station as a terminus to which branches were built from the company's north–south Cologne–Duisburg railway, Cologne–Duisburg main line, and *the ''Rhenish station'' built by the Rhenish Railway Company (RhE) in 1877 in Düsseldorf-Pempelfort at the end of a branch line from its north–south Troisdorf–Mülheim-Speldorf ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
