Ruhr Industrial Heritage Trail - Bochum Central Station, Bochum Dahlhausen Railway Museum, Cologne-Minden Railway Company, Dortmund Port, Dortmund U-To (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 39. Chapters: Bochum Central Station, Bochum Dahlhausen Railway Museum, Cologne-Minden Railway Company, Dortmund Port, Dortmund U-Tower, Duisburg Canals, Duisburg Central Station, Duisburg Inner Harbour, Essen-Hugel station, Florianturm, Gasometer Oberhausen, German Inland Waterways Museum, Hagen Central Station, Hagen Westphalian Open-Air Museum, Halde Rheinpreussen, Henrichenburg boat lift, Hohenhof, Konig Brauerei, Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord, LVR Industrial Museum, Museum fur Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Museum Kuppersmuhle, Oberhausen Central Station, Old Kupferdreh station, Rhine Orange, Ruhr Industrial Heritage Trail - Duisburg: Town and Harbour, The Industrial Heritage Trail, Villa Hugel, Walsum power plant, Werhahnmuhle, Westfalenhallen, Witten Central Station, Zeche Carl, Zollern II/IV Colliery, Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex. Excerpt: Duisburg Central Station () is a railway station in the city of Duisburg in western Germany. It is situated at the meeting point of many important national and international railway lines in the Northwestern Ruhr valley. The station is situated at the northern end of the relatively straight Duisburg to Dusseldorf railway line which has to cope with one of the highest daily loads in continental Europe. This line is slated to be widened to six tracks in the near future. Currently it has four-and in some places five-tracks. Parallel to it to the east is the local line to Duisburg-Wedau, remnant of a relief line to Dusseldorf which only sees a local shuttle service today but is heavily used by freight trains (which usually do not run through the station but bypass it on a freight-only line two miles to the east). The third line from the south is the railway line to Krefeld and Monchengladbach. This crosses the River Rhine and then splits into the main line and a..