S3 (Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn)

Route of S3

				0.0	Oberhausen Hbf
				4.0	Mülheim-Styrum S1
				5.7	Mülheim West
				7.1	Mülheim (Ruhr) Hbf S1
				13.6	Essen-Frohnhausen S1
				14.7	Essen West S1S9
				17.1	Essen Hbf S1S2S6S9
				21.8	Essen-Steele S1S9
				22.9	Essen-Steele Ost S1
				24.7	Essen-Horst
				27.6	Bochum-Dahlhausen
				31.9	Hattingen (Ruhr)
				33.1	Hattingen (Ruhr) Mitte

Source: German railway atlas^[1]

Line S3 is a S-Bahn in the Rhein-Ruhr network. It runs from Oberhausen over Essen to Hattingen Mitte. It is operated at 30-minute intervals, using Stadler FLIRT 3XL units.^[2]

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.^[2]

References

^ Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas). Schweers Wall. 2009. pp. 137–8. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
^ ^a ^b "S3: Oberhausen - Essen - Hattingen". NRW rail archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 2 October 2011.

[Eisenbahnatlas-1] Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas). Schweers Wall. 2009. pp. 137–8. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.

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

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