Line S8 is an

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line operated by DB Regio on the

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network. It runs from Hagen Hauptbahnhof in the west to Mönchengladbach Hauptbahnhof in the east via Wuppertal Hauptbahnhof,

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and Neuss Hauptbahnhof. It is operated between Düsseldorf and

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at 20-minute intervals using class 422 electric multiple units. One out of three trains continues to Hagen, running hourly. An S 9 service and three

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services ( Wupper-Express, Rhein-Münsterland-Express and

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) 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

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on 1 October 1891 between the Hamm Railway bridge and Gerresheim as part of the construction of Düsseldorf Hauptbahnhof. *from Gerresheim to

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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

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in 1934, and *from Gevelsberg West to Hagen over the Düsseldorf-Derendorf–Dortmund Süd railway, built by the

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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.

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S08 1988 establishments in West Germany