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 |
|---|---|---|
Wedel
|
|
|
| Blankenese – Ohlsdorf
(– Poppenbüttel) |
|
|
| Altona – Bergedorf (peak time only) |
|
|
| Elbgaustraße – Aumühle |
|
|
| Pinneberg – Stade |
|
|
| Altona – Berliner Tor / – Harburg-Rathaus (– Neugraben) |
|
Read more about this topic: Hamburg S-Bahn
Famous quotes containing the word lines:
“[Children] do not yet lie to themselves and therefore have not entered upon that important tacit agreement which marks admission into the adult world, to wit, that I will respect your lies if you will agree to let mine alone. That unwritten contract is one of the clear dividing lines between the world of childhood and the world of adulthood.”
—Leontine Young (20th century)
“While you are divided from us by geographical lines, which are imaginary, and by a language which is not the same, you have not come to an alien people or land. In the realm of the heart, in the domain of the mind, there are no geographical lines dividing the nations.”
—Anna Howard Shaw (1847–1919)
“Every living language, like the perspiring bodies of living creatures, is in perpetual motion and alteration; some words go off, and become obsolete; others are taken in, and by degrees grow into common use; or the same word is inverted to a new sense or notion, which in tract of time makes an observable change in the air and features of a language, as age makes in the lines and mien of a face.”
—Richard Bentley (1662–1742)