From what I can gather it is a higher freiqency suberban commuter rail in Germany. The closest thing here in America would be SEPTA Silverliner cars on the more busier routes like the Trenton line
That would be correct. S-bahn is ‘suburban’, U-bahn is ‘underground’ i.e. subway.
charlie hebdo will be the ideal person to comment on this.
The entire SEPTA ex-Reqding and ex PRR network qualifies as an S-Bahn. Ditto Metro-North entirely. and LIRR, possibly the latter excepting its non-electrified and freight-only lines and Jamaica - Flatbush Avenue Atlantic Terminal, which is more like rapid transit.
I’d qualify that as “Metro North east of the Hudson”. The Port Jervis trains aren’t S-Bahnlike in my opinion… at least not in New York State.
In my opinion the SIRT is more S-bahn than U-bahn, although that might have been different if the tunnel had been built to connect it to some part of the subway system.
If the PRR and Reading electrifications in Philadelphia qualify, then so do does the Lackawanna’s (including the Gladstone Branch). But that leaves us wondering whether the ‘outer’ part of PATH and the outside two tracks on PRR from Exchange Place also qualify due to the MU local traffic on them… the latter being the ‘opposite end’ of the clocker corridor from the Trenton service SEPTA provides.
All of you are correct. The distinction between S-Bahn and Regional Bahn is increasingly blurred and relates also to funding source: a metro transit authority and/or Deutsche Bahn. And who operates may also vary.
An example of an S-Bahn that blurs the distinction is the S4 running 110 km from Ohringen to Karlsruhe, including some street running as a Straßenbahn in Heilbronn and Karlsruhe.
From what I understand there is a differance between Commuter Rail and S-Bahn in that Commuter rail service runs only during rush hour and S-Bahn runs all day every 20 to 30 min even having freiqiencys as much as 10 mins.https://ilyabirman.net/moscow/rail/ Moscow Central Suburban Commuter Company (ЦППК) has one of the most complete frequint suberban rail systems in the world with a complete loop around the city. This is diiferant again from the Metro Subway system. One could also argue that BART is also a S-Bahn as the original intention was not to be a Metro. The diferance in the United States and Canada is that Commuter rail is operated by Freight Railroad unions and regulated by the FRA and Federal Railroad Adminstartion and light rail and subways are regulated by the Federal Transit Admistration. SEPTA attempt to turn the Fox Chase commuter train from a FRA operation into a FTA operation was met with disaster as the drivers would be cheated out of Federal Railroad Retirement.
DL&W’s electrified lines were definitely S-Bahn-type. And now even more so, withy bsome of these traihns, all under NJT, joining their ex-PRR cousihnhws in runnong to NY Penn Statsion ahnd some even using Sunntyside Yard on occasion.