Lines
The route network of the Hamburg S-Bahn has a length of about 144 km and a total of 68 stations. It consists of two trunk routes crossing the city in an East-West-direction – the Northern Hamburg-Altona link line and the Southern City S-Bahn – and six connecting routes (two in the western part of the city and four in the eastern part). The trunk routes connect with eact other at Altona and Hauptbahnhof. 113.2 km of the network are separated from other rail services, 31.9 km are operated together with regional and cargo traffic. About 12.5 km of the network lie within tunnels, 7.9 km are single-track routes.
The S-Bahn operates four main (S1, S21, S3, S31) and two additional lines during peak hours (S11, S2). Lines with single-digit numbers go through the inner-city tunnel ("City-S-Bahn") via Jungfernstieg, lines with two-digit numbers use the Verbindungsbahn via Dammtor.
Until 2002, some Regionalbahn services were given S-Bahn numbers. The locomotive-hauled service between Hauptbahnhof and Ahrensburg was called S4 (now R10); the service between Altona and Elmshorn was S5 (now R60 and R70), and—before the extension of electric services to Aumühle in 1969—the service between Bergedorf and Friedrichsruh was S6 (now R20). The name S3 was used for Regionalbahn services between Hauptbahnhof and Maschen and Neugraben (now R30 and R50) until the opening of the Harburg S-Bahn in 1983/1984.
(Stations with name written in bold face in the following table offer a turning option)
| Line | Start – End | Stations |
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Wedel
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| Blankenese – Ohlsdorf
(– Poppenbüttel) |
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| Altona – Bergedorf (peak time only) |
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| Elbgaustraße – Aumühle |
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| Pinneberg – Stade |
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| Altona – Berliner Tor / – Harburg-Rathaus (– Neugraben) |
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