page_title: Rheinhausen station
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Rheinhausen station / History
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Bf Rheinhausen: Ausfahrt von ET 425 073+425 056 als Zug 10008 nach Mönchengladbach Hbf.
context_page_description: Rheinhausen station is located in the Duisburg suburb of Rheinhausen in the Lower Rhine region of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It lies on the Duisburg-Ruhrort–Mönchengladbach railway and is the starting point of the Lower Rhine Railway towards Xanten.
context_section_description: The first Rheinhausen station was built with the construction of the Osterath–Essen railway of the Rhenish Railway Company (RheinischeEisenbahn-Gesellschaft) and formed the station at the western end of the Ruhrort–Homberg train ferry. It was located in the municipality of Hochemmerich, south of the Duisburg–Hochfeld railway bridge, which was built in 1873, on the site now containing a port and logistics centre called Logport. With the construction of the bridge, the old station was demolished and a new Rheinhausen station was erected on the municipal territory of Friemersheim. This went into operation on 8 October 1877. The Prussian state railways rebuilt the station in 1894 due to the increased traffic volume.
  The station building, which had been erected in 1877 on the Kruppstraße in Friemersheim, was demolished in 1904. The construction of the entrance building was mainly related to the construction of the Rheinhausen–Kleve railway. The new entrance building was built on Windmühlenstraße, not far from the former station building. The station was given the double name of Rheinhausen-Friemersheim on 1 May 1904 at the initiative of the Friemersheim mayor. With the commissioning of a halt at the Friedrich-Alfred steelworks to the east of the station, which was given the name of Rheinhausen, the original station was renamed Friemersheim. In 1923, the municipalities of Hochemmerich and Friemersheim were merged into the municipality of Rheinhausen. In 1936/37, Friemersheim station was renamed  Rheinhausen , while Rheinhausen halt was renamed Rheinhausen Ost.
  In 1915, during the First World War, various offices were added. From the beginning of the 1920s onwards, there was growing criticism of the state of the waiting rooms. At the same time, plans were made to merge the Friemersheim and Rheinhausen stations as a single central passenger station. The redevelopment of the waiting rooms was continually postponed because of the latter proposal. However, the new central station did not eventuate.
  The tunnel under the platforms has remained in the original form from the period when the station building was built. It was extended between 2006 and 2007 to the north side of the railways and under a newly built approach road to Logport called Am Logport. The platforms are now also accessible from the Hochemmerich side through the district around Behringstraße, Lindenallee and Maiblumenstraße.
  In 2014/15, the entrance were adapted for the needs of the disabled, with both the platform and the entrance from Friemersheim equipped with wheelchair-accessible ramps.
  The Rheinhausen (Friemersheim) West signal box was built at the time of the construction of the station building on Windmühlenstraße. It was built on the abutment of an overpass over the railway tracks. The overpass was replaced by the Rheingoldstraße/Bachstraße underpass at the end of the 1950s as the bridge was no longer able to cope with the increasing truck and car traffic because of its restricted width and load capacity. In addition, its clearance was insufficient for the later electrification of the line. The Rmf signal box (Rheinhausen Mittefahrtsleiter), which was built in brick construction and positioned east of the railway station between the railway lines, was put into service in 1890 and replaced in 1973 by a relay interlocking on Kruppstraße.
caption: RE 11 near Mönchengladbach Hbf on platform 3, 2015
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