Bebra Railway

The Bebraer Bahn is the railway line from Frankfurt am Main via Hanau and Fulda to the Bebra railway node in Northern Hesse.

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• Frankfurt-Bebra Railway , the originally Hessian railway project, construction and operation in the early years (1863–1874)
• The Bebra train station in Frankfurt-Sachsenhausen , which opened in 1873 at the end of the line towards the city, is now called Frankfurt (Main) Süd .
• To the three sections of the Bebraer Bahn:
  • Hanau – Frankfurt railway line (23 km, opened in 1873/75), the very densely traveled route south of the Main , located in the Frankfurt metropolitan area, from the main train station via Südbahnhof and Offenbach Hbf to Hanau Hbf . Long-distance and regional trains run here, as well as the Frankfurt S-Bahn on their own tracks . Both end points are north of the Main, almost the entire rest of the route is on the southern bank. The river is crossed twice via the Main-Neckar Bridge and the Steinheim Main Bridge .
  • Kinzigtalbahn (87 km, opened in 1867/68), the route from Hanau via Gelnhausen and Schlüchtern to Fulda station , heavily used by long-distance, regional and freight traffic. Since 1914, the thistle lawn tunnel has pierced the watershed between the Rhine and Weser , which significantly shortens travel times. At the time, the tunnel was the second longest in Germany.
  • Bebra – Fulda railway line (56 km, opened in 1866), the northern section from Fulda via Bad Hersfeld to Bebra station , since the opening of the parallel high-speed line in 1991 largely without long-distance traffic, but very important for freight traffic .