Frankfurt-Hanau Railway

The railway line Frankfurt- Hanau is a standard gauge, double track and electrified throughout main rail route in southern Hesse. It starts today at the Frankfurt South Station and runs from the Frankfurt East Station on the north bank of the River Main to the Hanau Central Station.

History

After the construction of the Taunus Railway 1839-1840, from Frankfurt am Main starting down Main to Wiesbaden, there was soon after plans for a railway line Main- up to Hanau. The Frankfurt- Hanau Railway Company was constituted 1844. Were received in the same year the two required concessions on the part of the Free City of Frankfurt and the Electorate of Hesse, the two States on their territory led them exclusively. Construction began in 1845, opening followed three years later, on September 10, 1848 under the name " Frankfurt- Hanau Railway " ( colloquially, depending on location and " Hanauer train " or " Frankfurt train" called ).

Beginning of the track was the Hanau station in Frankfurt's Ostend, the end of the track after 16.4 kilometers of the current station Hanau Hanau West near the city center. The track was initially a pure stand-alone operation. Only six years later, after the continued construction of the route to Kahl am Main, 1854 was the connection to the Ludwigs -west path of the Bavarian State Railways ( see: Main- Spessart -Bahn ). This proved to be somewhat problematic: given the previous Hanauer terminal station a level equal level crossing on the Philippsruher avenue was immediately east required. Elector Friedrich Wilhelm I ( Hesse -Kassel), expected with the argument that this leading to his castle Philippsruhe avenue to be disturbed, from the expansion of the rail financing bank Bernus du Fay a bribe of 100,000 thalers. His chief minister, Louis Hassenpflug, then offered his resignation, but the elector refused him resignation. As the train Hanauer became the connection to Bavaria to a range of national importance, it was connected from 1859 through the Urban Verbindungsbahn Frankfurt am Main to Frankfurt West stations, and thus to the rest of Frankfurt railway network.

To January 1, 1863 leased the private Hessian Ludwig Railway to total rail operation, the Frankfurt- Hanau Railway Company and therefore the railway line Frankfurt- Hanau, 10 years later, the Hessian Ludwig Railway then bought the Frankfurt- Hanau Railway Company and took it 31 Dezember 1872.

Since the connection path in the long run was not able to handle the complete passenger and freight traffic between the east and the west of Frankfurt, Hanau railway was connected via a built in 1911-1913 Querspange over the Main and the German Herrenbrücke to the Frankfurt- Bebra railway. This Hanauer station, a railway terminus, redundant and was closed in 1913. Operationally replaced him the further east railway station Frankfurt (Main ) Ost, a through station.

Route

The route begins in Frankfurt (Main) Süd station on the tracks 7 and 8 in extension of the original route of the Main web. A ramp from the Seehofstraße initially follows a Überwerfungsbauwerk on the südmainische route to Hanau, immediately thereafter, the federal highway 43 is crossed. The route continues along elevated for and about the German Herrenbrücke.

After crossing the Hanauer Landstrasse before the Frankfurt train station ( Main ) Ost run railway and Hanauer Landstrasse parallel. Northeast of the station Frankfurt- Mainkur both run a mile long directly parallel to the Main in a wide arc. Then the route is again completely straight east through the city formed in 1974 with the Main valley stations west and east to just before the breakpoint Hanau- Wilhelmsbad they reached after passing under the motorway feeder to the Federal Highway 66. The station building of Hanau- Wilhelmsbad is the only one on the route, which is still preserved from the time of construction of the railway. It follows a long arc from the northwest direction Hanau city center. The Kinzig and their foreland be crossed on bridges made of iron girders full on brick pillars and abutments of 1926.

The former terminus of the route and current station Hanau West is located at the edge of Hanau city center. Immediately after the breakpoint branches off a single track from the main track, which initially runs parallel to this on. South of downtown, cross under the tracks first federal highway 45 and then split up. While the main line crosses under the tracks of the südmainschen route from Frankfurt and then to the southern part of the Hanau main station, a former island station, with through binding to the Main -Spessart -Bahn, is the branch line runs without crossing the northern part of the Central Station, by binding to the Kinzig Valley Railway.

Operation

Passenger

At the beginning of the 2010s use in rail passenger transport regional rail and regional express all intermediate holding the railway line. IC and ICE trains to use the route in principle as well as the one kilometer shorter südmainische route.

Operate Monday to Friday and on Saturdays to 14 clock between Hanau and Frankfurt Hbf two regional trains per hour, each second regional course is not completed until the Frankfurt Central Station, but only up to the South Station. Every two hours, replaced by an incoming Würzburg Regional-Express, stopping at all stations the usual Regional trains, which are Monday to Friday, and partly through daily tied in the evenings to Aschaffenburg. In the rush hour trains the individual Odenwaldbahn and the Kinzig Valley Railway are performed on the Frankfurt- Hanau Railway, but which engage a stop only in Main Valley East, Frankfurt East and partly Hanau West. The regional trains (leased 2013) schedule of a locomotive of the series 143 or 111 series and five n- cars. The use of the 110 series ended successively until December 2012. The material of the regional express trains varies between locomotives of series 111 and 146 as well as mode - cars and various types of double-deck cars.

Freight traffic

After the demolition of the Frankfurt main freight station Frankfurt (Main ) Ost is the largest freight station in Frankfurt. It comprises a container station and connections to Frankfurt's harbor. Continuous freight trains primarily use the nordmainische route, as these from the bypass path on the original route of the train from Frankfurt Main Station Stadium is accessible without crossing.

Planning

There are concrete plans to tie to an already precaution built into the City Tunnel Frankfurt branch point a tunnel route to the Ostbahnhof. This should occur in the area of ​​container terminal east port back to the surface and then be parallel to the existing line on the same route in a separate, additional double-track line for the S- Bahn Rhein -Main continued until Hanau Hbf.