built across the railway next to the Harkortstraße level crossing. Long after the incorporation of Barop into Dortmund, this event was reflected in the renaming of the station Dortmund-Barop in May 1950. In the 1980s, a renewed decline of freight transport in Barop began. General freight traffic was abandoned and the freight shed was used for a few years as a fruit market. The rolling mill was closed, as was the yard of the Uhde company. Even the station building, which opened in 1861, and the pedestrian bridge were demolished. Since 29 May 1994, Barop station has been served by line S 5 of the Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn, running between Dortmund and Hagen. Until 2002, Barop yard handled freight, since then the station has been served only by the S-Bahn. Due to this decline of freight traffic, the remaining points were taken out of service in June 2006 and the entrance and exit signals were decommissioned and replaced by block signals. Therefore, it is considered as a halt (Haltepunkt) from an operational point of view. The vacant land left after the demolition of the sidings is for sale. Station The station is close to inner Hombruch and on the edge of the larger urban district of Barop. The station is currently classified as a category 6 station. The code for the operating point is EDBA (E = former railway division of Essen, D = Dortmund, BA = Barop). Train services Since 1994, line S 5 services operated by DB Regio NRW have served the station, originally operated during the day at intervals alternating between 20 and 40 minutes; since the timetable change of December 2009, the interval is regularly 30 minutes. This means that only one train an hour continues through Witten Hauptbahnhof as line S 8 to and from Hagen, Wuppertal, Düsseldorf and Mönchengladbach. Bus route 446, which is operated by Dortmunder Stadtwerke at 60-minute intervals, stops near the station. Also bus route 448 from Witten-Rüdinghausen to Dortmund-Löttringhausen stops near the station, which is operated at 30-minute intervals until the early evening. The two nearby stations of the Dortmund Stadtbahn at Barop Parkhaus and Hombruch Harkortstraße give much better connections within Dortmund, so Barop S-Bahn station plays a relatively small role in inner-city transport. References Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn stations S5 (Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn) Railway stations in Dortmund Railway stations in Germany opened in 1897