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 1⁄2 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 to Bottrop Nord 0.0 Oberhausen-Osterfeld Nord (former Rh station) to Oberhausen West Duisburg-Ruhrort–Bottrop Süd Emscher Rhine–Herne Canal 1.7 4.3 Osterfeld junction (old) to Oberhausen West 4.5 Essen-Frintrop (old) 6.7 Essen-Frintrop junction to Bottrop Süd 7.4 Essen-Dellwig Ost junction to Bottrop Hbf S 9 Duisburg–Dortmund 7.8 Essen-Dellwig Ost 8.0 Essen-Dellwig Ost crossover 9.1 Essen-Gerschede 10.3 Essen-Borbeck to Essen-Altendorf junction 1.0 11.5 Schönebeck (junction) 11.6 Essen-Borbeck Süd Former Line from Essen-Altendorf (formerly RhE) Former connecting line now platform track Trunk line from Mülheim Hbf (ex BME) S-Bahn line from Mülheim Hbf S 1S 3 13.0 Essen-Frohnhausen (without stopping) 14.1 Essen West Hauptstrecke nach Essen Hbf (formerly BME) Former line from Altendorf (Ruhr) 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.