Dortmund-Barop station is on Barop Marktplatz in the Hombruch district of the city of Dortmund in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia on the Elberfeld–Dortmund line. The station is currently classified as a category 5 station. It is served by regional services and Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn line S 5. History Freight operations started at Barop with the opening of the main line of the Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company on December 1848. For many years the railway was closely connected with the industrial history of the Barop/Hombruch area. Thus, the station was primarily built for the transport of coal mined in Barop and it was located near the Louise colliery in Hörder Chaussee (now Stockumer Straße), and connected by sidings to the Vereinigte Wittwe & Barop colliery and the Giesbert shaft of the Glückauf colliery, which were nearby. The Henriette colliery, which was about two km away, was probably connected by a horse-hauled tramway when the station opened. On 9 March 1849, passenger services began running on the line. Nonetheless, freight was the centre of operations at the station: not only for the local collieries served by the station, as it was also used by local companies to load and unload freight, especially for the Baroper Maschinenfabrik ("Barop engineering works") from 1856 and the Baroper Walzwerk ("Barop rolling mill") from 1862. In 1861, the station was moved to its present location near the Harkortstraße. The Clausthal shaft of the Vereinigte Louise Tiefbau colliery was connected by a ropeway conveyor to the train station in 1865. Another track joined the station to the Gotthelf shaft of the Glückauf Tiefbau colliery from around 1870. Finally, in 1895 a track was built to the Kaiser Friedrich colliery in Menglinghauser, connecting to Barop station. A gradual decline of the coal mines in the Barop area began from the 1880s. In 1880, the siding was extended to Holthausen colliery in Eichlinghofen and the Wittwe & Barop und Henriette colliery was closed in 1888. Large coal mining in Barop largely ended in 1925 with the closure of the remaining mines. Only the Kaiser Friedrich coking coal mine remained in operation until 1930. Also Baroper Maschinenfabrik was closed after the First World War. Other industries were established on the abandoned land in the next few years. The majority of the volume of freight in 1928 served the rolling mill, which had been acquired by Hoesch AG. A steel footbridge was