Hamburg S-Bahn, Edited Version, Hamburg, Sachsen, Germany, 2014

On the first afternoon of my Hamburg trip, I spotted some of the S-Bahn trains running in and out of Hauptbahnhof. The other notable mainline station is Altona, although the Stadtbahn, or S-Bahn system serves all the smaller stations associated with it. S-Bahn systems in German cities function as a combination of transit and commuter services, often using the same rights of way as mainline RegionalBahn, Intercity, Eurocity, ICE, and other longer-distance services. Hamburg also has an Untergrundbahn, or U-Bahn services, which are subway services.