S4 (Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn)

Route of S4

Legend

|  |  |

0.0

| Unna

|
|
|
|

|  |

1.1

| Unna West
|  |

3.9

| Unna-Königsborn
|  |

7.2

| Massen
|  |

8.7

| Dortmund-Wickede
|  |

10.2

| Dortmund-Wickede West
|  |

11.8

| Dortmund-Asseln Mitte
|  |

14.2

| Dortmund-Brackel
|  |

15.1

| Dortmund Knappschaftskrankenhaus
|  |

16.8

| Dortmund-Körne
|  |

17.8

| Dortmund-Körne West
|  |

20.1

| Dortmund Stadthaus
|  |

21.3

| Dortmund Möllerbrücke
|  |

22.3

| Dortmund West
|  |

23.1

| Dortmund-Dorstfeld S1S2
|  |

25.9

| Dortmund-Marten Süd
|  |

27.9

| Dortmund-Germania
|  |

28.8

| Dortmund-Somborn
|  |

30.3

| Dortmund-Lütgendortmund
|  |  |  |  |  |
Source: German railway atlas[1]

Line S 4 is an S-Bahn of the Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn, running from Unna to the Dortmund suburb of Dortmund-Lütgendortmund. It is operated by DB Regio on behalf of Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr. It is operated at 30-minute intervals (15-minute intervals in the peak between Dortmund-Lütgendortmund and Unna-Königsborn) using class 422 four-car electrical multiple units.[2]

Line S 4 runs over several lines:

* from Dortmund-Lütgendortmund to Dortmund-Germania over the new S-Bahn line (2213), opened by Deutsche Bahn on 2 May 1993,[3]
* from Dortmund-Germania to Dortmund Stadthaus over the Rhenish Ruhr line, opened by the Rhenish Railway Company on 19 November 1874,[4][5]
* from Dortmund Stadthaus to Unna-Königsborn over the Welver–Sterkrade line opened by the Royal Westphalian Railway Company on 15 May 1876,[6]
* from Unna-Königsborn to Unna over the Fröndenberg–Kamen line opened by the Prussian state railways between 2 January 1899 and 1 November 1900.[7]

S-Bahn services commenced between old Lütgendortmund station and Unna station on 3 June 1984. The section from Germania to old Lütgendortmund station was closed on 31 August 1987 and operations on the new line to Lütgendortmund commenced on 23 May 1993.[2]

Extension of the S 4 line from its current western end in the tunnel at Dortmund-Lütgendortmund was formerly planned to be implemented with a target of opening it in 2015. This would have included an extension of the single-track tunnel to the immediate south of Dortmund-Bövinghausen station. The S 4 would run from there to Herne on the Duisburg-Ruhrort–Dortmund railway (the Emscher Valley Railway of the Cologne-Minden Railway Company) and there take over the Herne–Essen branch of the current S 2 line. The Emschertal-Bahn (RB 43) Regionalbahn service would only operate between Herne and Dorsten. The eastern section of the Emscher Valley Railway between Dortmund-Bövinghausen and Dortmund Hauptbahnhof would be used by a new line of the Dortmund Stadtbahn. For a long time funds have been available for the construction of the line to Bövinghausen, however, the financing for the operation of the line is not guaranteed. The Emschertal-Bahn runs between Dortmund-Bövinghausen and Herne every hour, but the S2 would run between Herne and Essen every twenty minute as an S-Bahn service, so the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr would have to fund the increased services through savings in other areas. Upon taking office, the transport minister Oliver Wittke called for all such proposals to be re-evaluated. The line extension has been removed from the integrated transportation plan for North Rhine-Westphalia; a resubmission is possible from 2015.

## References[edit]

1. ^ Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas). Schweers + Wall. 2009. p. 139\. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
2. ^ a b "S4 : Lütgendortmund - Dorstfeld - Unna". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 18 October 2011.
3. ^ "Line 2213: Dortmund-Lütgendortmund ↔ Dortmund-Dorstfeld". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 18 October 2011.
4. ^ "Line 2151: Bochum Präsident - Dortmund Abzw Flm". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 18 October 2011.
5. ^ "Line 2126: Dortmund-Dorstfeld - Dortmund Süd". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 18 October 2011.
6. ^ "Line 2112: Welver - Dortmund Süd". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 18 October 2011.
7. ^ "Line 2852: Fröndenberg - Unna". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 18 October 2011.

Unna-Königsborn station

Authority control databases |

* VIAF

|