Editing Dortmund (section)

===Rail transport===
[[File:HBFDo.JPG|thumb|Dortmund central railway station]]
As with most communes in the Ruhr area, local transport is carried out by a local, publicly owned company for transport within the city, the [[DB Regio]] subsidiary of {{lang|de|[[Deutsche Bahn]]|italic=no}} for regional transport and {{lang|de|Deutsche Bahn|italic=no}} itself for long-distance journeys. The local carrier, [[Dortmunder Stadtwerke]] (DSW21), is a member of the [[Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr]] (VRR) association of public transport companies in the Ruhr area, which provides a uniform fare structure in the whole region. Within the VRR region, tickets are valid on lines of all members as well as DB's [[railway line]]s (except the high-speed [[InterCity]] and [[Intercity-Express]] networks) and can be bought at ticket machines and service centres of DSW21, all other members of VRR, and DB.

The central train station ([[Dortmund Hauptbahnhof]]) is the third largest long-distance traffic junction in Germany. Dortmund has a railway service with {{lang|de|[[Deutsche Bahn]]|italic=no}} [[InterCity]] and [[InterCityExpress|ICE]]-trains stopping at ''[[Dortmund Hauptbahnhof]]'' (Dortmund Main Station). ICE and [[Thalys|TGV Thalys]] high-speed trains link Dortmund with [[Amsterdam]], Brussels (in 2h 30) and Paris (in 3h 50). There are frequent ICE trains to other German cities, including [[Frankfurt am Main]], [[Berlin]] and other cities in the Rhein-Ruhr Region.