Oberhausen–Duisburg-Ruhrort railway

Oberhausen–Duisburg-Ruhrort railway
Overview
Locale	North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Line number	2274
Technical
Line length	9 km (5.6 mi)
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Operating speed	100 km/h (62 mph) (maximum)
Route number	447
Route map line to Wesel line to Gelsenkirchen 0.3 Oberhausen Hbf line to Essen line to Duisburg 2.5 Duisburg-Obermeiderich Oberhausen West–Duisburg-Wedau line Oberhausen West–Duisburg Hbf line line to Oberhausen West Rhine-Herne Canal 3.5 Duisburg-Meiderich Ost junction 3.9 Duisburg-Meiderich Ost former line to Mülheim-Styrum 5.3 Duisburg-Meiderich Süd line to Moers former line to Duisburg-Neumühl 7.4 old Duisburg-Ruhrort Hafen former line to Duisburg-Ruhrort Hafen station 8.9 Duisburg-Ruhrort (former station) former Ruhrort-Homberg train ferry former line to Mönchengladbach Source: German railway atlas

The Oberhausen–Duisburg-Ruhrort railway is a line in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It runs from Oberhausen via Duisburg-Meiderich to Duisburg-Ruhrort.

The line is now classified as a main line, although it is not electrified and west of Duisburg-Meiderich Sud station it is entirely single-track.

The Cologne-Minden Railway Company (Cöln-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, CME) opened the first railway in the Ruhr with the completion of its trunk line in 1847. This allowed coal mined in the Ruhr to be brought to consumers in the Lower Rhine. It entered into a contract with the Ruhrort-Crefeld District Gladbach Railway Company (Ruhrort–Crefeld−Kreis Gladbach Eisenbahngesellschaft, RCG) to vuild a line to Ruhrort and to establish a train ferry between Ruhrort and Homberg. The RCG agreed to build a line from Homberg to Mönchengladbach. The CME opened its branch line from Oberhausen Station via Meiderich to Ruhrort on 14 October 1848. Under the contract the train ferry was to become operational within four years of the completion of the line.

After the Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company (Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, BME) took over the RCG, together with the Aachen-Neuß-Düsseldorf Railway Company (Aachen-Neuß-Düsseldorfer Eisenbahngesellschaft) of the Royal Directorate of the Aachen-Düsseldorf-Ruhrort Railway Company (Königliche Direction der Aachen-Düsseldorf-Ruhrorter Eisenbahn) in 1866, it built a line to Ruhrort, starting from its Mülheim-Styrum station. This meant that BME lines connected to the ferry terminals on both shores, and so the CME line to Oberhausen abruptly lost its usefulness.

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