In later years the line was steadily improved and branches were built. In the same year, the route from Langendreer BME east to Dortmund BME was rebuilt and opened for passenger traffic on 5 October 1862. A few weeks later on, the section from Styrum to Duisburg BME opened. On 1 March 1862 the section from Bochum to Steele, Essen BME Mülheim BME, Styrum and Oberhausen BME was opened. On 26 October 1860, the first section was opened from Witten BME to Bochum BME (at one time called Bochum Sud station). In particular it wanted to connect the coal mines north of the Ruhr with a port on the Rhine.Ĭonstruction of the original line It was thus cut off from the coal mines, which is the mid-19th Century were found on the north bank of the Ruhr.īetween 18 Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company ( Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, BME) built its own trunk line in the highly industrialised area in the Wupper valley and the Bergisches Land and decided to extend it to the west through the area between the Ruhr and the Emscher rivers. The Cologne-Minden Railway Company ( German, old spelling: Cöln-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, CME) planned the route of its trunk line, built from 1845 to 1847, to avoid the construction costs of a line through the very hilly land along the valleys of the Ruhr and Wupper rivers and in order to minimise operating costs. 1.5 Redevelopment for long-distance services.

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