Hattinger line (coal railway)

This line began in Wuppertal territory at Wichlinghausen station and led via Schee and Sprockhövel to Hattingen station. From Wuppertal's point of view, the line actually consisted of two operational sections, firstly the aforementioned connection from the Wupper valley to the Ruhr city and secondly the Wichlinghausen - Silschede route, which branched off from the Hattinger line at Schee station. Because of the transport between the mining towns and the Bergisch industrial towns, the entire line was often referred to as the "coal railway". The 22.4-kilometer railway line from Wichlinghausen to Hattingen was opened five years after the Rhenish line was opened on May 20, 1884. In Wuppertal city area, the Hattinger line was threaded out of Wichlinghausen station (originally called Ober-Barmen (Rh)) in a northeasterly direction and initially led in a large bend parallel to the tracks of the Rhenish line to the east. Behind the sinkholes towards Jesinghausen, the route then branched off and climbed in a large S-shaped course to the city limits, which runs over the “watershed” tunnel Schee. At around the settlement of Bracken there was the Nächstebreck stop (initially also called Bracken), the only station in Wuppertal territory on this line. Behind the tunnel there was the Schee junction station. The route continued to the Sprockhövel station and then in several turns via Bredenscheid to the Hattingen terminus. This station (now with an S-Bahn) is on the southern Ruhr Valley Railway from Hagen-Vorhalle via Witten-Bommern and Bochum-Dahlhausen to Essen-Steele, on which museum trains have been running for many years. The 8.9 kilometer long branch line from Schee to Silschede was opened on November 1st, 1889. Below are a few impressions of various places on the track.
(Source bahnen-wuppertal.de/html/hattinger-zeile.html)

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