Erfurt S-Bahn

[1] Other contemporary media used terms such as "suburban traffic at the local transport tariff" to describe it.

[6] Starting at Erfurt Hauptbahnhof, the line ran in a semicircle north and east around the city centre.

The existing Erfurt tramway and the supplementary bus lines run by the city's public transport company (Erfurter Verkehrsbetriebe [de]) could no longer meet the growing demand for transport at peak times.

Because the main patronage of the S-Bahn came from workers of the VEB Pressen- und Scherenbau "Henry Pels" (later VEB Umformtechnik Erfurt "Herbert Warnke"; factory currently owned by the Schuler Group), as well as DR employees, traffic was suspended on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays.

Since the travel times by tram to the main station were similarly long but significantly shorter in the direction of the city centre, a separate train connection became superfluous.

[10] Until 1994, double-decker articulated push-pull trains in four-car formation manufactured by VEB Waggonbau Görlitz (basically, a predecessor of the modern-day Bombardier Double-deck Coach) were primarily used on the Erfurt S-Bahn, pulled by DR Class 100 locomotives (from 1992 reclassified as DR Class 202).

This meant that it was not necessary to build a reversing track or turn back siding at the end of the line.

In its final year of operation, two three-car DB Class 614 diesel multiple units were used.