Network
The network of the Rhine Neckar S-Bahn is about 290 km long and is one of the largest S-Bahn networks in Germany. The core area is located in the states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Baden-Württemberg. At Homburg (Saar), it touches the Saarland and it has three stations in Hesse between Neckarsteinach and Hirschhorn. Four of the six lines run together on the Schifferstadt–Ludwigshafen–Mannheim–Heidelberg section. From this core section trains run on five branches with termini in Homburg, Osterburken, Karlsruhe, Germersheim and Eppingen.
Services on the Rhine Neckar S-Bahn operate on weekdays at intervals of 30 or 60 minutes. The class 425 electric multiple units are equipped with a toilet and a have fewer doors than class 423s. They have a floor height of 780 mm. The S-Bahn lines are shared with the other passenger and freight traffic. Services operate at regular intervals and the stations have been consistently upgraded for barrier-free access.
| Line- number |
Route | Length | Stations | Railway lines |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| S 1 | Homburg (Saar) – Osterburken |
200 km | 51 | Palatine Ludwig Railway, Rhine Valley Railway, Neckar Valley Railway, Neckarelz–Osterburken line |
| S 2 | Kaiserslautern – Eberbach (– Mosbach (Baden)) |
110 km (133 km) | 31 (36) | |
| S 3 | Germersheim – Karlsruhe |
104 km | 25 | Schifferstadt–Wörth railway, Palatine Ludwig Railway, Rhine Valley Railway |
| S 33 | Bruchsal – Germersheim |
32 km | 11 | Bruhrain Railway |
| S 4 | Germersheim – Bruchsal |
083 km | 27 | Schifferstadt–Wörth railway, Palatine Ludwig Railway, Rhine Valley Railway |
| S 5 | Heidelberg – Eppingen |
043 km | 17 | Elsenz Valley Railway, Steinsfurt–Eppingen line |
| S 51 | (Heidelberg –) Meckesheim – Aglasterhausen |
019 km 0(39 km) | 07 (14) | (Elsenz Valley Railway,) Meckesheim–Neckarelz line |
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