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}} The Duisburg-Ruhrort–Mönchengladbach railway is a historically significant, but now partly abandoned line in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The line was built by the Ruhrort-Crefeld District Gladbach Railway Company ((ドイツ語:Ruhrort–Crefeld−Kreis Gladbach Eisenbahngesellschaft), RCG), founded in 1847, and is one of the oldest lines in Germany, opened in 1849 and 1851. The greater part of the route, along with the western section of the Ruhr line of the Rhenish Railway Company (''Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft'', RhE), forms the Duisburg–Mönchengladbach line, one of the main line in Germany’s lower Rhine region, connecting the stations of Duisburg and Mönchengladbach. ==History == The ''Ruhrort-Crefeld District Gladbach railway'' was established to bring coal mined in the Ruhr district to consumers in the Lower Rhine region. The RCG therefore concluded a contract with the Cologne-Minden Railway Company (CME), which at that time was the only railway company then operating in the northern Ruhr area. The CME built a branch from Oberhausen to Ruhrort from its trunk line, which was opened on 14 October 1848. The RCG began construction of its line to a point located exactly opposite Ruhrort on the bank of the Rhine in Homberg, now part of the city of Duisburg. The Ruhrort–Homberg train ferry commenced services to Ruhrort station on the east bank of the Rhine on 12 November 1852, carrying carriages and freight wagons over the river. On 15 October 1849, the line was opened from Homberg to Viersen via Trompet, Kaldenhausen, Uerdingen and Crefeld. the final leg to Gladbach (now Mönchengladbach) was completed two years later to the day, on 15 October 1851. In 1853 railway lines were opened to Aachen and to Düsseldorf by the Aachen-Neuß-Düsseldorf Railway Company (''Aachen-Neuß-Düsseldorfer Eisenbahngesellschaft'', AND). On 1 April 1850, even before it had completed its line, the RCG, together with the AND, was nationalised by the Prussian government and became part of the ''Royal Directorate of the Aachen-Düsseldorf-Ruhrort Railway Company'' (''Königliche Direction der Aachen-Düsseldorf-Ruhrorter Eisenbahn''). On 1 January 1866 this company was taken over by the Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company (BME), which was also mostly state-owned. The BME opened a line in 1862 from Mülheim-Styrum station on its Witten/Dortmund–Oberhausen/Duisburg line to Duisburg-Ruhrort and remarked the distances along its track in kilometres from Aachen RHE station (km 0.0) to Dortmund (km 164.3). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Duisburg-Ruhrort–Mönchengladbach railway」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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