X-Wagen coaches of S-Bahn Rhein-Ruhr
at Cologne central station |
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Overview | |||
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Locale | Rhine-Ruhr, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany | ||
Transit type | Commuter rail | ||
Number of lines | 13 | ||
Number of stations | 124 | ||
Annual ridership | 130 million Düsseldorf/Rhine-Ruhr: 98 million Cologne: 32 million |
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Headquarters | Düsseldorf, Germany | ||
Website |
www.s-bahn-rhein-ruhr.de www.s-bahn-koeln.de |
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Operation | |||
Began operation | 1967 | ||
Operator(s) | DB Regio NRW, Regiobahn (S28) | ||
Headway | 20 min. | ||
Technical | |||
System length | 676 km (420.05 mi) | ||
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The Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn (German: S-Bahn Rhein-Ruhr) is a polycentric S-Bahn network covering the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Region in the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia. This includes most of the Ruhr (and cities such as Dortmund, Duisburg and Essen), the Berg cities of Wuppertal and Solingen and parts of the Rhineland (with cities such as Cologne and Düsseldorf). The easternmost city within the S-Bahn Rhine-Ruhr network is Unna, the westernmost city served is Mönchengladbach.
The Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn network operates in the areas of the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr (VRR) and Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg (VRS) tariff associations, touching areas of Aachener Verkehrsverbund at Düren and Verkehrsgemeinschaft Ruhr-Lippe at Unna. The network was established in 1967 with a line connecting Ratingen Ost to Düsseldorf-Garath. Currently, the system consists of 13 lines (11 lines operated by DB Regio NRW, S28 operated by Regiobahn and S7 operated by Abellio Rail NRW).