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Rheinhausen–Kleve Railway
The Rheinhausen–Kleve railway, also known in German as the ''Niederrheinstrecke'' (Lower Rhine Railway), is a formerly continuous railway on the Lower Rhine in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The line between Rheinhausen and Rheinkamp is duplicated and classified as a mainline railway and then continues to Xanten as a single-track branch line. The final section to Kleve has been out of use since 1990. The line to Millingen has overhead electrification. Name The Lower Rhine line was built in 1903/04 under the name of the Hippeland-Express by the Prussian state railways. "Hippe" means goat in the Lower Rhine dialect, a typical domestic animal in the Lower Rhine. The name of the line reflected the rustic nature of the area at the end of the line. Route The line, which was officially opened in 1904, starts at Rheinhausen station, where it separated at an at-grade junction from the Osterath–Dortmund Süd railway, which was built by the former Rhenish Railway Compan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kleve Station
Kleve is a railway station in the town of Kleve, North Rhine Westphalia, Germany. The station opened on 5 March 1863 on the Lower Left Rhine Railway. The train services are operated by NordWestBahn. History The station was an important international station on the Nijmegen - Kleve - Kevelaer - Krefeld - Düsseldorf route until 1991. In Kleve the line is no longer intact towards Nijmegen, however there are sections which still exist outside the town. The station also had a connection to Rheinhausen until 1990. Until 1982 there was also a line to Zevenaar Zevenaar () is a municipality and a city in the Gelderland province, in the eastern Netherlands near the border with Germany. Population centres * Angerlo * Babberich * Giesbeek * Lathum *Ooy * Oud-Zevenaar *Zevenaar History The earliest signs .... Train services The station is served by the following services: *Regional service Kleve - Kevelaer - Krefeld - Düsseldorf Bus services A number of buses serve the station, in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duisburg-Meiderich Nord–Hohenbudberg Railway
The Duisburg-Meiderich Nord–Hohenbudberg railway is a line in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia that originally ran from Meiderich Nord station to the Hohenbudberg freight yard with a branch to the former Rheinpreußen station on the Lower Rhine Railway and was formerly used primarily for freight. The operating part of the line now forms the Oberhausen West–Meerbeck railway, which connects the Oberhausen West freight yard and the Duisburg-Wedau–Bottrop Süd railway, freight line from Duisburg-Wedau to Bottrop Süd with Meerbeck junction on the Lower Rhine Railway. History After the closure of the Ruhrort–Homberg train ferry on 19 May 1907, a simple ferry across the Rhine was maintained for passengers, but another solution had to be found for freight since the Duisburg-Hochfeld Railway Bridge required a long detour. The Prussian state railways began to construct its new line at Meiderich Nord station from the Duisburg-Ruhrort–Dortmund railway. It ran through ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Witten/Dortmund–Oberhausen/Duisburg Railway
The Witten/Dortmund, Oberhausen/Duisburg railway is one of the most important railways in Germany. It is the main axis of long distance and regional rail transport on the east–west axis of the Ruhr and is served by Intercity-Express, InterCity, Regional-Express, Regionalbahn and S-Bahn trains. Strictly speaking, the line today consists of two parallel two-track lines, one for mainline trains and the other for S-Bahn trains. On several sections of the line the long-distance tracks and S-Bahn tracks follow separate routes. The long-distance tracks follows the historical route built between 1860 and 1862 by the Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company as an extension of its trunk line between Elberfeld and Dortmund. History The Cologne-Minden Railway Company (German, old spelling: ''Cöln-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft'', ''CME'') planned the route of its trunk line, built from 1845 to 1847, to avoid the construction costs of a line through the very hilly land along the valleys ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duisburg-Hochfeld Süd Station
Duisburg-Hochfeld Süd station is a station with a large area of rail tracks in Duisburg in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is connected to several important railway lines. In addition, several tracks connect to Duisburg Central Station and various industrial tracks connect with the station area. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 5 station. History On 23 August 1866, the Rhenish Railway Company (german: Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, RhE) put the section of the Osterath–Dortmund Süd railway from Hochfeld to ''Essen RhE'' station into operation. At the same time the train ferry from Rheinhausen was put into operation. On 1 September 1866 the then ''Hochfeld (RhE)'' station was opened for passenger traffic. Hochfeld became the central railway station of three important RhE lines, the Osterath–Dortmund Süd railway, the Troisdorf–Mülheim-Speldorf railway and the Duisburg–Quakenbrück railway, which also connect with numerous short routes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duisburg-Hochfeld Railway Bridge
The Duisburg–Hochfeld railway bridge (german: Duisburg-Hochfelder Eisenbahnbrücke) spans the Rhine in the German city of Duisburg on the Duisburg-Ruhrort–Mönchengladbach line. The first bridge was built by the Rhenish Railway Company and put into operation at the end of 1873. It was replaced by a new bridge in 1927, which was badly damaged during the Second World War, but rebuilt and is still serves rail traffic between the Ruhr region and Aachen. History On 23 August 1866, the Rhenish Railway Company (''Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft'', RhE) opened its line between Osterrath and Essen to connect the coal mines in the Ruhr region with its railway network, which at that time was mainly located on the west bank of the Rhine. This line included the Rheinhausen–Hochfeld train ferry. Prior to the Austro-Prussian War, the Prussian military opposed the building of fixed bridges across the Rhine for military reasons, except in fortified cities such as Cologne, Mainz, Ko ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rheinhausen Ost Station
Rheinhausen Ost (east) is a station designated as a ''Haltepunkt'' (halt) in the Duisburg suburb of Rheinhausen in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It was built in 1907 after the commissioning of the Rheinhausen–Kleve railway on the left (western) bank of the Lower Rhine for workers of the Krupp’s steel works. The station was directly at the main entrance to the steel works, ''Tor 1'' (gate 1), which is now heritage-listed. History Its construction resulted from the visit of the German Emperor Wilhelm II to the Krupp’s steel works, which took place one year before, on 9 August 1906. A temporary halt was set up at the location of the later station. "At 10:05 am, the emperor arrived at the halt in the imperial special train and was received by the board of directors of Krupp", according to an ''Extrablatt des Allgemeinen Anzeigers für den Kreis Mörs'' ("special edition of the general gazette of the District of Mörs"). On departure, the men's c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rheinhausen Station
Rheinhausen station is located in the Duisburg suburb of Rheinhausen in the Lower Rhine region of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It lies on the Duisburg-Ruhrort–Mönchengladbach railway and is the starting point of the Lower Rhine Railway towards Xanten. Location The station is not in central Rheinhausen, but in the suburb of Friemersheim. However, Friemersheim was incorporated into the new city of Rheinhausen in 1934 and has been part of the Duisburg borough of Rheinhausen since 1975. In front of the station is a shopping mall, which leads to Friemersheim market. The Kruppsee (lake) and its environs is a recreation area next to the line towards Krefeld. Behind the station are extensive residential areas, which are part of central Rheinhausen. History The first Rheinhausen station was built with the construction of the Osterath–Essen railway of the Rhenish Railway Company (''RheinischeEisenbahn-Gesellschaft'') and formed the station at the western end of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flying Junction
A flying junction or flyover is a railway junction at which one or more diverging or converging tracks in a multiple-track route cross other tracks on the route by bridge to avoid conflict with other train movements. A more technical term is "grade-separated junction". A burrowing junction or dive-under occurs where the diverging line passes below the main line. The alternative to grade separation is a level junction or flat junction, where tracks cross at grade, and conflicting routes must be protected by interlocked signals. Complexity Simple flying junctions may have a single track pass over or under other tracks to avoid conflict, while complex flying junctions may have an elaborate infrastructure to allow multiple routings without trains coming into conflict, in the manner of a highway stack interchange. Flying junction without crossings Where two lines each of two tracks merge with a flying junction, they can become a four-track railway together, the tracks paired by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Osterath–Dortmund Süd Railway
The Osterath–Dortmund-Süd railway is a historically significant line in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Parts of it are closed, much of it is now used for freight only, but several sections are still used for Regional-Express, Regionalbahn or Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn services. The nearly 76 kilometre long line was built in three stages between 1866 and 1874 by the Rhenish Railway Company (german: Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, RhE), creating a third major east-west line through the Ruhr area. It was intended to compete effectively with the established and profitable lines of its competitors—the Duisburg–Dortmund railway, Duisburg–Dortmund line of the Cologne-Minden Railway Company and the Witten/Dortmund–Oberhausen/Duisburg railway, Ruhr line of Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company, but it was not successful. History The Rhenish Railway concentrated for a long time left on the territories next to the Rhine, leaving the Ruhr area with its coal mines and emergi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duisburg-Ruhrort–Mönchengladbach Railway
The Duisburg-Ruhrort–Mönchengladbach railway is a historically significant, but now partly abandoned line in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The line was built by the Ruhrort-Crefeld District Gladbach Railway Company (german: Ruhrort–Crefeld−Kreis Gladbach Eisenbahngesellschaft, RCG), founded in 1847, and is one of the oldest lines in Germany, opened in 1849 and 1851. The greater part of the route, along with the western section of the Ruhr line of the Rhenish Railway Company (''Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft'', RhE), forms the Duisburg–Mönchengladbach line, one of the main line in Germany’s lower Rhine region, connecting the stations of Duisburg and Mönchengladbach. History The ''Ruhrort-Crefeld District Gladbach railway'' was established to bring coal mined in the Ruhr district to consumers in the Lower Rhine region. The RCG therefore concluded a contract with the Cologne-Minden Railway Company (CME), which at that time was the only railway compa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
