Frankfurt Airport regional station
- Frankfurt Airport loop (km 11.4 )
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Frankfurt ( Main ) Airport Regional Train station was opened as part of the new terminal center at Frankfurt Airport on March 14, 1972. He was thus only the second airport train station ( to Berlin -Schönefeld ) in Germany.
Keep daily at the station a total of 223 S- Bahn and regional trains with a total of around 300,000 passengers per month (as of 2013).
Generally
The local train station is designed as an underground through station and has three tracks ( "Regio 1" to " 3 Regio " ), of which the tracks 2 and 3 are located on a central platform. Prior to commissioning of the mainline station was the name of Frankfurt (Main ) Airport train station. Leaves the station drove both commuter and long-distance trains, which led to shortages now and again at three tracks.
The central platform is 410 m long, the outer platform 210 m.
Vehicles with diesel traction may only enter into the regional train station, when the exhaust gas values of the type used are not too high. Currently hold diesel railcar series 612 regional train station, the main station Frankfurt -Saarbrücken Hbf operate the line.
The station is part of the management station Frankfurt (M).
History
The investment of the three-pronged deep station was already provided in the system in Terminal 1 the mid-1960s.
The transport policy of the Federal Government in 1967 was, according to the Federal Railroad the decisive impetus for the planning and financing of the Frankfurt airport train. In April 1969, the then German Federal Railways and the airport company FAG entered into a financing agreement on connecting the airport to the railway network. The cost for the railway station and 7.5 km long airport loop amounted to 100 million marks (about 51 million euros ) and were each divided equally between the airport company and waistband.
The station was officially opened by the then German President Gustav Heinemann on 14 March 1972. The celebration was also attended by Federal Transport Minister Georg Leber and Prime Minister Albert Osswald. After speeches at Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof rode a special train - the borrowed by the Munich S-Bahn train set 420 567 - the new airport station. The new station was a year earlier than initially planned in operation, with the connection in the direction of Mainz and Wiesbaden was not yet completed the commissioning of the station.
The regular train service began on March 16, 1972 by 4 clock. The station was initially a pure regional station, but was - already prepared for the reception of long-distance traffic - with the 410 m long central platform. The German Federal Railroad was based on the assumption settle at a later date only charter - distance transport, but not scheduled long-haul passenger trains. Until the end of 1972 more than two million travelers were counted.
Between 1982 and 1993 the station through the Lufthansa Airport Express has been served. As part of the concept of IC 85 the station from 1985 was included in the hour clock in the IC network. With the opening of the airport mainline station on 30 May 1999, the majority of long distance traffic was transferred to the new train station. During this time was also renamed in Frankfurt ( Main ) Airport Regional Station. Only at night, while the train station was closed, perverted individual long-distance trains on the local train station.
As part of the expansion measures of Riedbahn was provided in the late 1980s and the expansion of the regional railway station and a connecting curve for Riedbahn. Other considerations before looked to expand the station in connection with the construction of Terminal East and the high-speed line Cologne-Rhine/Main to a fourth ( mainline ) track and to connect with others via a tunnel to the Riedbahn direction Zeppelinheim. Despite the high cost of the procedure in the existing building is expected that the capacity would not be sufficient in the medium term. Other considerations before looked to build an additional station below the existing building. After a feasibility study had come to a positive result, the decision was against this variant due to high costs. On the side platform ( platform 1) there is a constructed provisions: a big transition to the non -built track, which was completed with doors. West of the station remembers a prepared tunnel tubes on these plans.
From 9th to 30th July 2007, the railway station for a complete replacement of the 30 -year-old track was blocked.
Since the beginning of 2010, the distributor level and the connecting corridor to present to Terminal 1 for a fundamental modernization in a new, lighter design.
Long-distance traffic
Since opening to the railway station stopped at the local train station a few isolated long-distance trains in off-peak location as the train station was closed overnight. Since the 2011 timetable of the train station is also open at night; therefore no scheduled Fernzughalte at the local train station are provided more.
A relic of the long-distance transport but can still be seen on the platform 2: At the beginning of the introduction of ICE traffic were all the platforms on which ICE trains stopped, red markings been installed in the area in which were the doors of the train stop. By using different types of trains ICE this mark is have become obsolete and was by most platforms now removed, the regional train station are these markers (as of 7 December 2011) but still on the platform 2 is present.
Regional-/S-Bahnen
In Frankfurt Airport Regional station holding two S -Bahn lines S-Bahn Rhein- Main and three regional express lines. The S8 and S9 operate each between Wiesbaden and Offenbach am Main in 30 -minute intervals and complement each other about so that a 15 - minute cycle is created. At certain times, this S -Bahn between Frankfurt Central Station and Kelsterbach be strengthened.
The regional express lines between Frankfurt and Saarbrücken and between Frankfurt and Koblenz run every two hours to the local train station and complement each other to an approximate hour between Frankfurt and Ingelheim.