Essen
General Information
The local public transport is reliable and provides good connections across the city and the wider region. The Regional train services is split between a couple of companies and my experience is that only DB is reliable with the other services not great |
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RuhrBahn for for | 
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| web | www.ruhrbahn.de for http://www.vrr.de | |
| description | Modern fleet of buses filling in the gaps in the Tram/U-Bahn/S-Bahn network | |
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RuhrBahn for Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr (VRR) |
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| web | www.ruhrbahn.de for www.vrr.de | |
| description | A mix of modern low floor and some high-floor trams covering a number of lines across the city. In the city centre itself the trams run in pre-metro mode in tunnels under the city centre | |
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RuhrBahn for Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr (VRR) |
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| web | www.ruhrbahn.de for www.vrr.de | |
| description | The U-Bahn network consists of four lines that cross the city and head out to the neighbouring communities. The trains are made up of a mix of high-floor trams and some of the first generation of DLR trains that London sold off in the mid-1990s | |
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Deutscher Bahn |  |
| web | www.bahn.de | |
| description | About half the train services, including the S-Bahn are operated by DB and these services appeared to be reliable when I used them. | |
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Rhein Ruhr Express |  |
| web | www.rrx.de | |
| description | Several of the S-Bahn and Regional Express line contracts have been awarded to RRX which is run by the Dutch railway using it's Abellio subsidiary. Services - when they operated - were comfortable with modern trains, but I experienced delays and cancellations with their services worse than I've ever had with Deutscher Bahn. | |
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