Dortmund–Hamm railway
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The Dortmund–Hamm Railway is an important and historically significant railway in Germany. It is a major axis for long distance passenger and freight trains between the Ruhr and the north and east of Germany. It is the part of the trunk line built by the Cologne-Minden Railway Company (German, old spelling: Cöln-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, CME) from Köln Deutz to Minden. It was opened in 1847 and has been modernized and developed several times since then.
History
On 18 December 1843, the
Development
The railway line between Dortmund and Hamm has been continually modernized since its opening reflecting its growing importance as an east-west link. It is now at least double track and was electrified in the late 1950s over its entire length.[2] In 1986, a 20.1 kilometre long section between Nordbögge (near Hamm) and Dortmund was cleared for scheduled operations at 200 km/h.
Since the beginning of the 1990s, trains have been permitted to operate in this section over its remaining level crossings at more than 160 km. Meanwhile, some of the crossings have been replaced by over or underpasses. Between the 120.4 and 143.4 km marks, the German train protection system, Linienzugbeeinflussung has been installed.
Services
There are hourly
Notes
- ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
- ^ a b "Köln-Deutz - Hamm (Westf) line". NRW rail archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 15 July 2013.