Düsseldorf rail freight bypass

The Düsseldorf freight bypass railway (Güterumgehungsbahn Düsseldorf) is a now partly disused railway line in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

The Cologne-Minden Railway Company had already established a freight line between the then Lierenfeld junction and Wehrhahn in 1863, but this was closed in 1880.

[2] In 1932 the old line was returned to service and connected by a grade-separated junction with the Cologne–Duisburg railway.

[3][4][5][6] The closing of the former Düsseldorf-Derendorf marshalling yard means that the bypass railway has lost most of its purpose.

Concrete pillars have been erected for supporting overhead wire on the western ramp of the southernmost passage under the main line, which gave direct access to Lierenfeld.