criticised the lack of services at the station, leading to an increase in services to ten trains to Krefeld and twelve trains to Duisburg each day. Later, the station was opened for general traffic. The station was initially equipped with two side platforms. While the northern platform for trains toward Krefeld could be reached via an underpass, passengers to Duisburg originally had to cross the line on foot. After the merger of Friemersheim and Hochemmerich into the municipality of Rheinhausen in 1923, a memorandum was produced four years later proposing the merger of the two stations into a central station. The mayor of Rheinhausen reaffirmed the project in 1935, as did the director of the Krupp's works, Bruno Fugmann, the following year. This was endorsed by Deutsche Reichsbahn in 1936, but preparations for war and finally World War II itself ended these plans. In the 1960s, station plans were restarted by the municipal administration (now Rheinhausen-Mitte), but they were only half-heartedly considered by the Deutsche Bundesbahn administration in Krefeld. After the municipal reorganisation and the associated incorporation of Rheinhausen into Duisburg in 1975, these plans were abandoned. With the end of the Krupp's steel works in 1993, the halt lost its importance. Now only two Regionalbahn services an hour stop, running towards Duisburg Hauptbahnhof and Krefeld Hauptbahnhof. The RE42 and the RB31 services are no longer scheduled to stop at Rheinhausen Ost. The station entrance for services towards Rheinhausen and Krefeld contained a restaurant that was called Ritzendiele ("Ritz hall") by the Krupp workers, as well as a ticket office. In 19 September 1994, the building burnt down and it was then demolished and not replaced. Services The station is served by Regionalbahn services, the RB33 (Rhein-Niers-Bahn) and the RB35 (Emscher-Niederrhein-Bahn). They both run hourly between Duisburg and Mönchengladbach, together providing a service every half hour. The RB33 starts from Essen and continues via Mönchengladbach to Aachen and the RB35 continues via Duisburg to Wesel. To the south of the halt there are non-electrified factory lines, which branch off towards the Rhine bridge from the former Krupp's works, now Logport, and from the various companies in the Logport area and Krupp's own former port and from the container terminal that has since been built there. Niederrheinische Verkehrsbetriebe operates bus route 914 (Moers – Friemersheim) and Duisburger Verkehrsgesellschaft operates bus route 922 (Winkelhausen – Friemersheim) at the station. The fares of