S3 (Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn)

Route of S13

Legend

0.0

Oberhausen Hbf S 2

4.0

Mülheim-Styrum S 1

5.7

Mülheim West

7.1

Mülheim (Ruhr) Hbf S 1

13.6

Essen-Frohnhausen S 1

14.7

Essen West S 1 S 9

17.1

Essen Hbf S 1 S 2 S 6 S 9

21.8

22.9

24.7

27.6

31.9

33.1

Hattingen (Ruhr) Mitte

Line S3 is a S-Bahn in the Rhein-Ruhr network. It runs from Oberhausen over Essen to Hattingen Mitte. It is operated at 20 minute intervals, using class 422 four-car electrical multiple units.^[1]

Line S 3 mainly runs over three lines built or acquired by the Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company:

from Oberhausen Hauptbahnhof to Essen-Steele Ost over the Witten/Dortmund–Oberhausen/Duisburg railway, opened in 1862,
from Essen-Steele Ost to Bochum-Dahlhausen over the Essen-Überruhr–Bochum-Langendreer railway, which was a former coal railway that was converted to standard gauge in 1865 and taken over by the Bergisch-Märkische Railway in 1870,
from Bochum-Dahlhausen to Hattingen over the Ruhr Valley Railway, opened in 1869.

Its last 1.2 km to Hattingen Mitte runs over the Wuppertal-Wichlinghausen–Hattingen railway opened by the Prussian state railways in 1884 and a short section of line opened by Deutsche Bundesbahn in 1987, including a 100 metre long tunnel.

S-Bahn services commenced between Oberhausen and Hattingen on 26 May 1974. Services were extended from Hattingen to Hattingen Mitte on 3 July 1987.^[1]

Notes

1 2 "S3: Oberhausen - Essen - Hattingen". NRW rail archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 2 October 2011.

References

Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2007/2008 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2007. ISBN 978-3-89494-136-9.

Hattingen (Ruhr) Mitte station

Preceding station		Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn		Following station
Oberhausen Hbf Terminus		S 3		Hattingen Mitte toward Hattingen (Ruhr) Mitte

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