S1 (Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn) Services ran via Düsseldorf Airport Terminal station from 24 May 1998 to 28 May 2000. Services were extended from Düsseldorf to Solingen on 13 December 2009, replacing part of the former line S 7 service. S1 (Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn) Line S1 is a S-Bahn line on the Rhine-Ruhr network. It is operated by DB Regio. It runs from Dortmund west over Essen to Duisburg. From there it travels south to Düsseldorf and Hilden before continuing to Solingen. It is operated at 20 minute intervals, using coupled sets of class 422 four-car electrical multiple units. Line S 1 runs over lines built
Ruhr condition for the establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany. During the Cold War, the Western allies anticipated that any Red Army thrust into Western Europe would begin in the Fulda Gap and have the Ruhr as a primary target. Increased German control of the area was limited by the pooling of German coal and steel into the multinational European Coal and Steel Community in 1951. The nearby Saar region, containing much of Germany's remaining coal deposits, was handed over to economic administration by France as a protectorate in 1947 and did not politically return to Germany until January 1957,