page_title: Oberhausen-Osterfeld Süd–Hamm railway
section_title: Route
hierarchical_section_title: Oberhausen-Osterfeld Süd–Hamm railway / Route
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: SBB Baureihe 482 mit Güterzug auf der Bahnstrecke Oberhausen-Osterfeld Süd–Hamm bei Recklinghausen Suderwich, Juli 2009
context_page_description: The Oberhausen-Osterfeld Süd–Hamm railway, also called the Hamm-Osterfeld line, is a 76-kilometre long double-track electrified main line railway at the northern edge of the Ruhr in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
  It has a continuous level route with no tunnels. Its eastern and central sections are now only used for freight, while its western section is also for passenger operations.
  The main operator, Deutsche Bahn, has always referred to this line as the Nordstrecke. It was the northernmost route of the former railway division of Essen.
context_section_description: The line begins at Hamm station and the junction of the former tracks from the passenger station and the freight tracks at the western end of Hamm marshalling yard. At Herringen junction a connecting track from Hamm marshalling yard joins from the west. Shortly afterwards is Pelkum station where the colliery railway from RAG-Bergwerk Ost ends. The line to Oberaden station consists of two main tracks with four sets of points for passing. At Horstmar junction there is a single-track line connecting to Preußen station. In Lünen Süd there is still a disused freight yard with a hump and further west a loading facility for several industrial companies and a single-track line connecting line to Lünen Hauptbahnhof.
  Waltrop station has been completely closed. In Recklinghausen Ost there is an abandoned marshalling yard. There are single-track connecting curves from the east to Recklinghausen Hauptbahnhof and Recklinghausen Süd, which were built in 1905 with the line. At Blumenthal junction, there is a single-track line from Recklinghausen Hbf to connecting with the line in the west. In Westerholt there is a transfer station to Zechen- und Hafenbahn der Ruhrkohle AG (Mines and Port Railway of Ruhr Coal Company).
  At Gelsenkirchen-Buer Nord station the line joins a single-track line built in 1968 running from Lippe junction to the Wanne-Eickel–Hamburg line (the Gelsenkirchen-Buer Nord–Marl Lippe railway). Since 24 May 1998, these passenger services on the line have operated as Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn line S 9. The junction is designed to allow for duplication towards Haltern. The S-Bahn station at Haltern was opened in 1998 and replaced the stop at the old station building.
  The Gladbeck West station today is now a junction station served by the S-Bahn and the regional services towards Dorsten on the connecting line to Gladbeck-Zweckel on the Winterswijk–Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck railway. North of the tracks is a freight loading facility with a now decommissioned hump for the Zechen- und Hafenbahn der Ruhrkohle AG.
  Bottrop Hauptbahnhof has been rebuilt several times since its inception. In the area of the freight yard, the line met the Emscher Valley Railway from Welver to Sterkrade of the former Royal Westphalian Railway Company, which was opened in 1879 and was closed in this area in 1968 and was dismantled by 1983, although part of the line operated as a colliery railway. The Hauptbahnhof freight yard still contains a (now abandoned) marshalling yard and a railway sleeper plant. Near the station the single track line to Essen-Dellwig Ost and the mostly double track line via Gerschede and Essen Frintrop (old) junctions to Oberhausen West branch off. The line continues towards Oberhausen-Osterfeld Süd station as a two-track freight line and a separate single-track passenger line.
  At the end of the line is located Oberhausen-Osterfeld Süd station, including one of the largest railway yards of the region, whose importance for passengers is, however, marginal. In Ostkopf the line joins the Emscher Valley Railway from Dortmund to Duisburg-Ruhrort, the one built by the former Cologne-Minden Railway Company. Its western end connects over a two-track freight rail line to Oberhausen West and over a two-track freight and passenger line to Grafenbusch junction, where it connects over a single-track freight line to Oberhausen-Sterkrade via the Holland line, Oberhausen–Wesel–Emmerich–Arnhem, and a single-track passenger line (line 2272) to Oberhausen Hauptbahnhof.
caption: SBB class 482 locomotive in Recklinghausen-Suderwich
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