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Essen–Bottrop railway

Mülheim-Heißen–Oberhausen-Osterfeld Nord
Overview
Locale North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Line number
  • 2182 Mülheim-Heißen–Schönebeck
  • 2280 (Essen West–)Schönebeck–Frintrop
  • 2261 Frintrop–OB-Osterfeld Nord
Technical
Line length 10 km (6.2 mi)
Track gauge 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 12 in) standard gauge
Electrification 15 kV/16.7 Hz AC overhead catenary
Operating speed 80 km/h (50 mph)
Route number 423, 450.9
Route map
0.0
Oberhausen-Osterfeld Nord
(former Rh station)
1.7
4.3
Osterfeld junction (old)
4.5
Essen-Frintrop (old)
6.7
Essen-Frintrop junction
7.4
Essen-Dellwig Ost junction
7.8
Essen-Dellwig Ost
8.0
Essen-Dellwig Ost crossover
9.1
Essen-Gerschede
10.3
Essen-Borbeck
1.0 11.5
Schönebeck
(junction)
11.6
Essen-Borbeck Süd
Former Line from Essen-Altendorf (formerly RhE)
Former connecting line now platform track
13.0
Essen-Frohnhausen
(without stopping)
14.1
Essen West
0.0 00.0
Mülheim (Ruhr)-Heißen
Former line to Mülheim Hbf (formerly RhE)
Source: German railway atlas

The Mülheim-Heißen–Oberhausen-Osterfeld Nord railway is a line that formerly ran continuously in the western Ruhr region from Heißen (now a district of Mülheim an der Ruhr) to Osterfeld (now part of Oberhausen) in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Several sections have been closed, leaving two sections, which are now used as parts of other routes. Between Essen-Borbeck and Essen-Dellwig Ost it is used by line S9 of the Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn and the Regional-Express service RE 14, Der Borkener.

The line was built by the Rhenish Railway Company (German: Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, RhE) as a connecting line between Heißen station on its Ruhr line (Osterath–Dortmund Süd) and RhE Osterfeld (now Oberhausen-Osterfeld Nord) station on its North Sea line (Duisburg–Quakenbrück, opened on 1 December 1872 initially for freight from Heißen to Frintrop. On 1 July 1879, the whole route to North Osterfeld was opened for passenger operations.

During the Second World War, on 27 March 1945 the bridges over the Emscher and the Rhine-Herne Canal were blown up and passenger services were abandoned on the entire line. The footings of the bridges over the Rhine–Herne Canal are still visible.


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