Lower Ruhr Valley Railway

Lower Ruhr Valley Railway
Overview
Native name Untere Ruhrtalbahn
Locale North Rhine-Westphalia
Line number 2185 (Kettwig–Mülheim-Styrum)
85 (Ruhrbrücke junction–Mülheim West)
Technical
Line length 14.7 km (9.1 mi)
Track gauge 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 12 in) standard gauge
Operating speed 40 km/h (24.9 mph) (most recent maximum)
Route number Most recently: 231a
Route map

Legend
 Operating points and lines[1] 
Ruhr Valley Railway from Essen-Werden
0.0 Kettwig
(former junction north of the Ruhr)
Ruhr, Kettwiger See
1.0 Kettwig Stausee
Ruhr Valley Railway to Düsseldorf
1.8 Kettwig vor der Brücke
3.0 Schloßhotel Hugenpoet
4.5 Mintard
8.7 Aubergsweg
9.0 Saarn
Brauerei Ibing
11.5 Mülheim-Broich
Connecting curve to Speldorf
Rhenish railway: Mülheim Hbf–Speldorf
Ruhr
13.0 Ruhrbrücke junction
Former passenger line to Mülheim BME
Main line from Mülheim Hbf
14.7 Mülheim-Styrum
Main line to Oberhausen and Duisburg

The Lower Ruhr Valley Railway (German: Untere Ruhrtalbahn) is a former railway in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It was opened on 24 January 1876 by the Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company (Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, BME) along the Ruhr to the southwest of the city of Mülheim an der Ruhr and connects Mülheim-Styrum on the Witten/Dortmund–Oberhausen/Duisburg railway and Essen-Kettwig on the Ruhr Valley Railway.

Passenger services

The first passenger services in 1876 ran from Kettwig over the Kettwig railway bridge and the Ruhr bridge in Mülheim to the Mülheim station of the BME,[2] which was later renamed as Mülheim (Ruhr) and is now Mülheim (Ruhr) West.[3] The passenger service was moved in 1909 to Styrum[4] because the connecting curve to Mülheim BME was upgraded for the expansion of Friedrich Wilhelms-Hütte steel works and Mülheim (Ruhr) West station was in the way. At the end of World War II, the two Ruhr bridges were destroyed.[2] Consequently, passenger services from Mülheim had to stop short of the Ruhr bridge at Kettwig and later a station was built there called Kettwig Stausee ("Kettwig reservoir", below the current S-Bahn station of the same name) as a terminus.[5] In Mülheim, the passenger service was diverted over the Broich connecting curve to Speldorf. After the re-establishment of the Mülheim bridge in 1954 both of the north-west end points (Styrum and Speldorf) were served until the abandonment of passenger services in 1968.[2]

History

Notes

  1. Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
  2. 1 2 3 "Line 2185: Kettwig - Mülheim-Styrum". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 30 July 2013.
  3. "Mülheim (Ruhr) West station operations". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 30 July 2013.
  4. "Line 85: Ruhrbrücke Abzw - Mülheim BM". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 30 July 2013.
  5. "Kettwig Stausee station operations". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 30 July 2013.

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