Frankfurt Airport loop
The airport S -Bahn Frankfurt is a two-track, electrified, 15.8 km long railway line, which is operated by the Frankfurt S-Bahn.
Traffic
The airport S-Bahn connects the S- train network of the city of Frankfurt am Main starting from Frankfurt Central Station to the Frankfurt airport and Kelsterbach. The connection line runs up to the area airport, located in a tunnel above ground.
Operation
The S-Bahn route is claimed by the S -Bahn lines S8 and S9 and the regional trains of the RMV line 80, and the S -Bahn line S7 in the section Hauptbahnhof Stadium. The S-Bahn trains run at 15 minute intervals to Wiesbaden Hbf alternately Mainz Hbf and Mainz- Kastel, and to Hanau Hbf via Frankfurt Hbf (low), the City Tunnel Frankfurt and Offenbach, Offenbach Ost. Regional trains run every hour in the direction of Koblenz Hbf ( Hbf via Mainz and Bingen Hbf ) and Saarbrücken Hbf ( over Mainz Hbf and Idar -Oberstein ). In the opposite direction, the regional trains run to Frankfurt Central Station.
In July 2007 the railway tracks between the stadium and Kelsterbach were renewed during a three-week road closures.
History
The end of 1971 the opening of the airport train gave the German Federal Railroad known, at least in the section between the main railway station and airport of the fall of 1972 to the spring of 1972 to bring forward. The total length of the new line, between the unloading, near Frankfurt, sports field (now Frankfurt stadium ) and the threading in Kelsterbach, was 7.5 kilometers.
The commissioning took place on 14 March 1972. Initially working day perverse 48 commuter trains on the route. Due to increasing passenger numbers a two-track S-Bahn new line between the eastern end of the airport and the main railway loop was necessary later. This approximately seven kilometer route via Frankfurt- Niederrad the run-up to the main railway station, crosses two up to 36 parts per thousand steep ramps the railway line from Frankfurt- Höchst and threaded in the field of Kleyerstraße into this.
Planning
From 2014 to 2018 is 215 million euros for a new route between the airport and the train station stadium arise to link the new Gateway Gardens area at the northern edge with an open top bus stop in a simple low position.
Just before the curve to Kelsterbach station a new track to be built straight through the Main Railway and the Main to Frankfurt- Höchst. This new route is part of the Regional tangent West ( RTW) of Neu-Isenburg center to Bad Homburg or to Nordwestzentrum.
The German railway announced in mid-March, 2014 to want to start the procurement process for the construction of the 4.2 km section of line from 15 September 2014. In each case, approximately half of the new track section to the tunnel ( open design ) and run in the open route.