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---- Left column: chainage according to KWE Right column: modern S-Bahn chainage * Dortmund–Bochum * * Dortmund–Hagen |} The Welver–Sterkrade railway is a former through railway line from the Westphalian town of Welver to Sterkrade in the western Ruhr region, which is now broken into four disconnected sections. Because its route ran along the Emscher river it was known as the ''Westphalian Emscher Valley Railway''. The sections from Unna-Königsborn to the former Dortmund South station and from Dortmund-Dorstfeld to Dortmund-Mengede is now an entirely two-track electrified railway and is served by the Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn (lines S 2 and S 4). There are two sections, each of only a few kilometres, in Gelsenkirchen and in Bottrop and Oberhausen, which have traditionally been used exclusively for freight. ==History == The line was built by the Royal Westphalian Railway Company ((ドイツ語:Königlich-Westfälische Eisenbahn), KWE) to connect its network, which at that time mostly ran through northern and eastern Westphalia, to the Ruhr area in the west in order to serve the lucrative traffic from its coal mines and factories. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Welver–Sterkrade railway」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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