I've been thinking, how about a railway line called Walsumrail (in german: Walsumbahn (for TSW 6 or later)) in the old time period where the trains used to serve there opened in 1912 2 years before from the beginning of world war 1. If that wouldn't be possible to make it then how about in the future time period where it will be reactivated hopefully? Some info about this route: The Oberhausen–Wesel railway line, also known as the Walsum Railway , opened in 1912; construction began in 1908. The line was built as a north-south relief route for the main Wesel – Dinslaken – Oberhausen line . Due to its proximity to the Rhine, under construction the line was constructed as an elevated railway, using, among other things, excavated earth from the Rhine-Herne Canal. Story (from Wikipedia): In June 1906, the Ministry of Public Works commissioned the Royal Railway Directorate in Essen to draw up a plan for the Oberhausen – Hamborn – Walsum – Wesel line by September 1, 1906. The line was to be built as a single-track main line , but the possibility of double-track expansion was to be taken into account. The line was intended to improve supplies to the garrison town of Wesel, connect the growing town of Hamborn to the railway network, and serve the newly developed hard coal mines. It was also intended to relieve congestion on the Oberhausen – Dinslaken – Wesel main line. The line was originally intended to join the main line at Möllen , but at the instigation of Spellen's pastor, Spies, it was rerouted via Spellen . On May 29, 1907, the law for the construction of the line was announced. In Wesel, the line could not be introduced into the existing station due to space constraints and was therefore given a separate platform with a reception building, the so-called Hamborn station. For flood protection Because the railway was built as an elevated line, a total of approximately three million tons of earth had to be moved. Half of this was obtained from the excavated material from the Rhine-Herne Canal under construction, thus reducing the construction time by two years. Additional material came from sources such as the Osterfeld colliery and the Gutehoffnungshütte in Sterkrade. The use of scour piles resulted in the embankment being damaged by the material igniting. Foreign laborers were primarily employed during construction. The state police inspection took place on October 3, 1912, and the ceremonial opening took place on October 14, 1912, with a special return trip from Oberhausen to Wesel. Scheduled service began the following day. The third track between the junction Obn and Oberhausen main station went into operation on 1 November 1913. After the end of the First World War, traffic on the Walsum Railway was interrupted several times. Between November 5 and 16, 1919, passenger traffic was suspended in order to use the existing capacity for coal and potato transport. In the spring of 1920, the line was the scene of the Ruhrkampf , so traffic was severely restricted between March 19 and April 3, 1920, and completely suspended in the following week until April 10, 1920. In the initial period after the line was reopened, tickets were only issued in urgent cases. On January 11, 1923, occupied Belgian troops the Ruhr area and, after passive resistance from German railway workers, took over operation of the line up to just before Wesel on their own. In 1924, public-private operation was discontinued and management was handed back to the Deutsche Reichsbahn, which had been founded in 1920 . On 15 July 1926, Möllen station was converted into a stop, and the Reichsbahn took the two signal boxes out of service. In 1930, the bridge over the Wesel-Datteln Canal was built north of Spellen. The bridge was blown up by German pioneers on March 24, 1945. Reconstruction was planned until the 1960s, but the Essen Federal Railway Directorate (BD) did not close the Spellen-Wesel section until March 19, 1969. Also in March 1945, the railway bridge over what is now the Kleine Emscher was blown up and the line between Walsum and Hamborn was interrupted. Via a private siding and the Gutehoffnungshütte industrial railway network. While Hamborn station was still accessible from the direction of Oberhausen, the Walsum – Spellen section was connected to Sterkrade station From May 5, 1948, freight trains again ran on the Hamborn – Walsum section, and passenger trains from May 9, 1948. On May 14, 1950, the Deutsche Bundesbahn downgraded the Walsum–Spellen section to a branch line and introduced train control operations on the section . The train dispatcher in Walsum also assumed the role of train controller on the line. The Sp signal box in Spellen was decommissioned at the same time. The main line section Oberhausen – Walsum was equipped with Indusi at about the same time . On December 13, 1957, general cargo traffic in Möllen and Spellen was discontinued. On May 29, 1959, construction began on the Dinslaken District Railway, which was intended to serve as an industrial main line connecting the factories located on the south bank of the Wesel-Datteln Canal to the railway. After a year of construction, the line was opened on May 30, 1960. For the construction, the main line between kilometers 24 and 25, which had been dismantled in 1945, was rebuilt as a branch line. At kilometer 25, the line merged into a connecting line. The decisive factor for the construction of the main line was the construction of the BP Hünxe refinery . On May 25, 1963, the Deutsche Bundesbahn (German Federal Railway) discontinued passenger, express, and freight services on the Walsum–Spellen section. The Möllen stop was thus inoperative for the next five years. Were used between Wesel and Spellen, as had been the case since 1945. Instead of passenger trains, rail buses On October 1, 1968, the Federal Railway discontinued express freight service on the line. With the 1968 decision to build the Voerde power plant, expanded the Möllen depot STEAG into a diversion point for the delivery of hard coal. The first train arrived on August 18, 1970. In 1985, a second underground bunker for unloading went into operation. At the same time, the Moe relay interlocking station went into operation, replacing the existing interlocking station. The remaining passenger traffic between Oberhausen Hbf and Walsum was discontinued on May 28, 1983. In the same year, the mechanical signal boxes in Oberhausen-Buschhausen were taken out of service and the station was connected as a remote control area to the Ohf relay signal box in Oberhausen Hauptbahnhof. At about the same time, BP shut down the Ruhr refinery in Hünxe. The remaining freight traffic concentrated on serving several connections, including the Grillo works (Duisburg-Hamborn), Walsum mine , Duisburg-Walsum power plant , Haindl paper (Walsum), Voerde power plant (Möllen) and the connections to the Dinslaken district railway and the port of Emmelsum (Spellen). Following the closure of the Walsum mine in 2008 and the Voerde power plant in March 2017, daily train traffic fell to fewer than 20 trips. In 2010, Deutsche Bahn considered using the Walsum Railway between Oberhausen and Wesel as an alternative to expanding the main line. This project was never realized. The city of Dinslaken the proposal, citing increasing rail noise. Firmly rejected at the beginning of December 2017, the line between Oberhausen-Buschhausen (exclusively) and Spellen was connected to an electronic interlocking system. The control equipment is located at Oberhausen West station. The remaining mechanical interlocking systems in Duisburg-Hamborn and Walsum were decommissioned with the connection of the electronic interlocking system. The Oberhausen-Buschhausen stations, which have existed since 1912, Duisburg-Hamborn, Walsum, Möllen and Spellen remained in operation after passenger traffic was discontinued in 1963 and 1983. Spellen station was converted into a junction in 1985 . Since the ESTW was connected, the depot has once again been operated as a station. The reception buildings are still in place and are primarily used privately. The impressive reception building of Duisburg-Hamborn station houses, among other things, a café , and the reception hall is used for wedding celebrations.
Hamborn station building (before 1945). From 1963 to 1983, Walsum was the northern terminus of passenger trains (2016). Abutment for the Spellen – Wesel line on Böskenstraße, behind it the overpass of the Emmelsum district railway and harbor railway (2018) Staircase of the Duisburg-Hamborn Provinzialstraße stop, which was closed in 1983 (2020).
I don't know if it's correct since I used Google Translate to translate it into English because it's only in german and Dutch.
