The Ringbahn (German for: Circular railway) is a 37.5 km (23.3 mi) long railway line of the Berlin S-Bahn around the city centre of Berlin in Germany. The line is made up of the S-Bahn ring and the freight ring. S-Bahn service on the line is carried out by the S 41 (clockwise) and S 42 (counter-clockwise) circle lines, with 400,000 passengers a day. Due to its distinctive shape, the line is colloquially called "Hundekopf" (dog's head).
The Ringbahn also constitutes the outer border of the "A" zone for the Verkehrsverbund Berlin-Brandenburg transport association's fare structure, and is the outer border of the road traffic control zone for particulate matter control established by January 1 2008.
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