S8 (Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn)

Route of S8

					0.0km Hagen Hbf S5S9
				1.0	Hagen (Westphalia)-Wehringhausen S9
				3.0	Hagen (Westphalia)-Heubing S9
				5.3	Hagen (Westphalia)-Westerbauer S9
				6.9	Gevelsberg-Knapp S9
				9.9	Gevelsberg S9
				10.9	Gevelsberg-Kipp S9
				11.9	Gevelsberg West S9
				16.1	Schwelm S9
				17.9	Schwelm West S9
				20.0	Wuppertal-Langerfeld S9
				21.2	Wuppertal-Oberbarmen S7S9
				23.2	Wuppertal-Barmen S7S9
				25.1	Wuppertal-Unterbarmen S7S9
				26.7	Wuppertal S7S9
				27.4	Wuppertal-Steinbeck S9
				30.2	Wuppertal Zoologischer Garten S9
				31.0	Wuppertal-Sonnborn S9
				32.9	Wuppertal-Vohwinkel S9S68
				37.9	Gruiten S68
				41.1	Hochdahl-Millrath S68
				42.6	Hochdahl S68
				45.6	Erkrath S68
				48.2	Düsseldorf-Gerresheim S28S68
				52.2	Düsseldorf-Flingern S28S68
				53.7	Düsseldorf S1S6S11S28S68
				54.6	Düsseldorf-Friedrichstadt S11S28
				55.7	Düsseldorf-Bilk S11S28
				57.5	Düsseldorf Völklinger Straße S11S28
				58.3	Düsseldorf-Hamm S11S28
				60.0	Neuss Rheinparkcenter S11S28
				62.1	Neuss Am Kaiser S11S28
				64.6	Neuss Hbf S11S28
				70.2	Büttgen
				73.9	Kleinenbroich
				76.8	Korschenbroich
				79.6	Mönchengladbach-Lürrip
				81.6	Mönchengladbach Hbf

Source: German railway atlas^[1]

Line S8 is an S-Bahn line operated by DB Regio on the Rhine-Ruhr network. It runs from Hagen Hauptbahnhof in the west to Mönchengladbach Hauptbahnhof in the east via Wuppertal Hauptbahnhof, Düsseldorf Hauptbahnhof and Neuss Hauptbahnhof. It is operated between Düsseldorf and Wuppertal-Oberbarmen station at 20-minute intervals using class 422 electric multiple units.^[2] One out of three trains continues to Hagen, running hourly. An S 9 service and three Regional-Express services (Wupper-Express, Rhein-Münsterland-Express and Maas-Wupper-Express) also operate between Wuppertal-Vohwinkel and Hagen each hour.

Line S 8 runs over lines built by various railway companies:

from Mönchengladbach to Neuss on the Mönchengladbach–Düsseldorf railway, opened by the Aachen-Düsseldorf-Ruhrort Railway Company between 1852 and 1854
from Neuss to near Düsseldorf-Hamm over the new line built with the Hamm Railway Bridge opened by the Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company on 24 July 1870,
from Hamm to Gerresheim over the new line opened by the Prussian state railways on 1 October 1891 between the Hamm Railway bridge and Gerresheim as part of the construction of Düsseldorf Hauptbahnhof.
from Gerresheim to Steinbeck over the Düsseldorf–Elberfeld railway opened by the Düsseldorf-Elberfeld Railway Company between 1838 and 1841,
from Steinbeck to Wuppertal Hauptbahnhof over a link line opened by the Düsseldorf-Elberfeld Railway and the Bergisch-Märkische Railway on 28 December 1848,
from Wuppertal to Schwelm over the Elberfeld–Dortmund railway built by the Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company between 1847 and 1849,
a short section of the Witten–Schwelm railway from Schwelm towards Gevelsberg West opened by Deutsche Reichsbahn in 1934, and
from Gevelsberg West to Hagen over the Düsseldorf-Derendorf–Dortmund Süd railway, built by the Rhenish Railway Company between 1873 and 1879 (except for a section between Hagen-Heubing and Hagen Hauptbahnhof built in 1894 by the Prussian state railways).

S-Bahn services commenced on the whole length of the route on 29 May 1988.

References

^ Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas). Schweers + Wall. 2009. pp. 50, 140–3. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
^ "S8: WHagen - Düsseldorf - M.Gladbach". NRW rail archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 1 October 2011.