Düsseldorf-Derendorf–Dortmund Süd railway
The Düsseldorf-Derendorf–Dortmund Süd railway is a partially closed line in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia from Düsseldorf-Derendorf station to Dortmund South station. Parts of it are still busy, including two sections used for the Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn.
Ruhr Viaduct in Herdecke
In Wuppertal-Barmen the line crosses the urban area on the Steinweg Viaduct
Class 515 battery-powered railbuses at Wuppertal-Lüntenbeck running towards Vohwinkel in 1989
The overgrown station at Dorp
The Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn is a polycentric and electrically driven S-bahn network covering the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Region in the German federated state of North Rhine-Westphalia. This includes most of the Ruhr, the Berg cities of Wuppertal and Solingen and parts of the Rhineland. The easternmost city within the S-Bahn Rhine-Ruhr network is Unna, the westernmost city served is Mönchengladbach.
DBAG Class 422 type at Dortmund Hauptbahnhof
An X-Wagen control car at Essen Süd in July 2014
A Class 111 locomotive leads an orange-and-white S-Bahn service across the Hohenzollernbrücke into Köln Hauptbahnhof in 1985
S-Bahn Rhein-Ruhr Series 422 at Angermund station