While the Cologne-Minden Railway Company (Cöln-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, CME) was building its trunk line between Cologne and Minden via Duisburg between 1843 and 1847, the shareholders of the Ruhrort-Crefeld District Gladbach Railway Company (Ruhrort–Crefeld−Kreis Gladbach Eisenbahngesellschaft, RCG) were looking for a way to bring coal from the Ruhr to industries on the western bank of the Rhine cheaply.
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The CME completed its branch line from Oberhausen to Ruhrort on 14 October 1848.
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Upon taking office, the transport minister Oliver Wittke called for all such proposals to be re-evaluated.
Duisburg-Ruhrort–Mönchengladbach railway, opened from Duisburg to Uerdingen by the Rhenish Railway Company on 23 December 1873, from Uerdingen to northern Viersen by the Aachen-Düsseldorf-Ruhrort Railway on 15 October 1849 and from northern Viersen to Mönchengladbach by the Prussian state railways in 1917; and
To export coal towards Belgium, Netherlands and shipping ports it built a connecting line from Mülheim-Styrum to the river port at Ruhrort, which was completed in 1867.
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Ruhrort-Crefeld District Gladbach Railway Company (Ruhrort–Crefeld−Kreis Gladbach Eisenbahngesellschaft, RCG), founded in 1844, approved by the Prussian government on 21 August 1846 and granted a concession on 8 January 1847 to build the line from Homberg via Trompet, Uerdingen and Viersen to Gladbach.
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The Ruhrort-Crefeld District Gladbach Railway Company built the Homberg am Rhein via Krefeld to Viersen with a length of 33.6 kilometres and opened it on 15 October 1849.