Frankfurt (Main) Airport regional train station

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Frankfurt (Main) Airport regional train station
The platform to platform 2
The platform to platform 2
Data
Location in the network Intermediate station
Design Through station , tunnel station
Platform tracks 3
abbreviation FFLU
IBNR 8070004
Price range 3
opening March 14, 1972
location
City / municipality Frankfurt am Main
Place / district Airport
country Hesse
Country Germany
Coordinates 50 ° 3 '7 "  N , 8 ° 34' 40"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 3 '7 "  N , 8 ° 34' 40"  E
Railway lines
Railway stations in Hessen
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Integration into the rail network of Deutsche Bahn before the Gateway Gardens station opens on December 15, 2019

The Frankfurt (Main) Flughafen Regionalbahnhof railway station was opened on March 14, 1972 as part of the new Terminal Mitte (today Terminal 1 ) at Frankfurt Airport . It was the second airport train station in Germany after Berlin-Schönefeld and the first in the network of the Deutsche Bundesbahn .

A total of 223 S-Bahn and regional trains with around 300,000 passengers per month stop at the station every day (as of 2013). According to information from the airport from the beginning of 2015, 13.4 percent of passengers travel by S-Bahn. According to information from 2017, more than 40,000 people get on, get off or transfer at the train station every day.

Until the long-distance train station was commissioned in 1999, the station was called Frankfurt (Main) Airport and both local and long-distance trains ran . The station is part of the Frankfurt am Main station management.

construction

The platform for platform 1 of Frankfurt (Main) Airport regional train station

The regional station is designed as an underground through station and has three tracks ("Regio 1" to "Regio 3"), of which tracks 2 and 3 are located on a central platform . This is 410 meters long, the outer platform 210 meters.

history

background

Class 403 railcars as Lufthansa Airport Express in what was then Frankfurt (Main) Airport station (1988)

According to information provided by the Deutsche Bundesbahn (DB) in 1969, the connection of Frankfurt am Main airport to the rail network was an old concern of DB. Due to a lack of funds and the slowly growing understanding of the necessity of the measure, however, the plan had not been able to take shape by then. The three-track underground station was planned when the terminal was planned in the mid-1960s.

planning

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 June 1968 the Federal Railway Directorate in Frankfurt am Main received the planning order for the airport railway . The travel time to the main train station should be nine minutes. Construction of the airport tunnel had to begin in 1969 in order to be able to complete it by the time the new terminal was commissioned in 1971.

Above the platform level, which was to be accessed via three entrances, service rooms, a luggage room, parking stalls and shops were planned. Escalators lead from here to the airport lobby. Ticket offices, a baggage counter connected to the warehouse by a conveyor belt, and a travel agency were planned in the airport lobby. An underground car park was planned next to the station, and a bus station above the station.

On April 18, 1969, the then Deutsche Bundesbahn and the airport company FAG signed a financing agreement for connecting the airport to the rail network. The costs for the train station and the 7.5 kilometer long airport loop amounted to 100 million D-Marks (around 51 million euros ) and were divided equally between the airport company and the federal government.

The 410 m long central platform, in conjunction with the 210 m long outer platform, should enable both local trains and charter trains with up to 15 cars to be handled. The middle track was about as usable in both directions passing loop provided.

A later connection for an air freight center is planned on the west side of the station. On the side platform (track 1) there is a preliminary construction work : a large transition to the unbuilt track, which was closed with doors. A prepared tunnel to the west of the station reminds of these plans. This has not yet been implemented (status: 2014).

Commissioning and operation

Construction work began in April 1969. The station was opened on March 14, 1972 by the then Federal President Gustav Heinemann . Federal Transport Minister Georg Leber and Prime Minister Albert Osswald also attended the celebrations. After speeches at Frankfurt Central Station, a special train - the multiple unit 420 067 borrowed from the Munich S-Bahn - drove  to the new airport station. The new station went into operation a year earlier than originally planned, although the connection to Mainz and Wiesbaden for the station to go into operation had not yet been completed.

Regular train service began on March 16, 1972 at 4 a.m. The station initially served as a purely regional station, but - with the 410 m long central platform - was already prepared for long-distance traffic. The Deutsche Bundesbahn assumed that at a later date only charter long-distance traffic would be handled, but not scheduled long-distance passenger train traffic. The connection to Kelsterbach / Mainz was still missing at this point.

In the 1972 summer schedule, 96 trains were offered. After the establishment of the Frankfurter Verkehrs- und Tarifverbund (FVV) in May 1974, the offer was expanded. In the winter of 1974/1975, more than 100 daily connections between the main train station and the airport were offered for the first time, one year later the figure was 107 and in the winter of 1979/1980 123. This increased the number of passengers on the airport suburban trains of 12,500 daily travelers (August 1972) to 15,500 (August 1975) and 20,000 travelers (1980). By the end of 1972, more than two million travelers were counted.

On September 30, 1979, the train service was expanded with the commissioning of the second construction stage of the airport connection. For technical reasons, however, it was not fully commissioned until the summer timetable change on June 1, 1980. The train service was expanded to 93 trains per day and direction and two S-Bahn lines created a ten-minute cycle. With the second stage of the airport connection, the scheduled travel time between the airport and the main train station was reduced from 18 to 20 minutes to 11 minutes.

According to information from 1980, around 35 percent of all travelers to and from the airport used rail transport. The source and destination traffic at the airport was over 50 percent.

Between 1982 and 1993 the station was served by the Lufthansa Airport Express . As part of the IC 85 concept , the station was integrated into the IC network every hour from 1985. With the opening of the airport long-distance train station on May 30, 1999, most of the long-distance traffic was transferred to the new long-distance train station. During this time, the name was also changed to Frankfurt (Main) Airport Regional Station . Only at night, when the long-distance station was closed, did individual long-distance trains run through the regional station.

For 1988, 7.5 million journeys to the airport train station were reported. 6.49 million passengers boarded and disembarked on the S-Bahn, around 235,000 on the Lufthansa Airport Express and around 775,000 on other long-distance services. These numbers exceeded the most optimistic forecasts. According to surveys, half of this was accounted for by air travelers. The other passengers were employees, companions of travelers and visitors. (In 1988 the airport counted a total of 25.2 million passengers and 46,000 employees.) On average working days, the station handled around 25,000 passengers boarding and disembarking. In 1989 the station handled 7.6 million passengers. While a further increase in train traffic was expected, the station was exhausted to its capacity limit.

As part of the expansion of the Riedbahn , the expansion of the regional train station and a connecting curve to the Riedbahn were also planned at the end of the 1980s. At the end of the 1980s, underground connections between the station and the Riedbahn were taken into account in the expansion plans for the airport (Terminal East).

Other considerations included adding a fourth track to the station as part of the construction of Terminal 2 on the site of Terminal Ost as well as the Cologne – Rhine / Main high-speed line and, among other things, connecting it to the Riedbahn in the direction of Zeppelinheim via a tunnel . Despite the high costs of the intervention in the existing building, it was expected that the capacities would not be sufficient in the medium term. Other considerations included building an additional train station under the existing building. After a feasibility study had come to a positive result, the decision was made against this variant due to the high costs. In the spring of 1990, the board of directors of the Deutsche Bundesbahn decided to build an additional long-distance station at the airport by 1997.

From July 9th to 30th, 2007 the station was closed for a complete replacement of the 30-year-old tracks. Since the beginning of 2010, the distribution level and the connecting passage to Terminal 1 have been given a new, lighter design after a thorough modernization.

The station is to be renovated from the end of 2017 to December 2020. Deutsche Bahn is investing almost ten million euros, the state of Hesse is taking over four million euros. The grant notification was handed over at the train station on December 6, 2017.

From October 26 to December 14, 2019, the airport regional train station as well as Kelsterbach and Raunheim were not used. The trains stopped at the airport long-distance station. For the new Gateway Gardens station , the eastern airport loop had to be relocated. A section of the tunnel had to be demolished and rebuilt.

Transport offer

Long-distance transport

Since the opening of the airport long-distance station , a few long-distance trains have stopped at the regional station on the edge of the day because the long-distance station was closed overnight. Since the 2011 annual timetable, the long-distance station has also been open at night, and since then there have been no longer any scheduled long-distance train stops at the regional station.

At the timetable change on December 14, 2014, however, the EN 420 train with the EN 40490 through coaches stopped at the regional station as planned; they will be operated as an ÖBB Nightjet from December 11, 2016 . The EN 421/40421, however, stops in the long-distance train station.

Train number Train run Tact
NJ 420/421 Düsseldorf  - Cologne  - Bonn  - Koblenz  - Mainz  - Frankfurt Airport  - Frankfurt South - Nuremberg  - Munich  - Innsbruck a pair of trains
NJ 40490 Passau  - St. Pölten - Vienna Meidling - Vienna car train system a pair of trains

Regional / S-Bahn

Class 420 of the S8 line in the regional train station on the way to Wiesbaden

Two lines of the Rhein-Main S-Bahn and three Regional Express lines stop at Frankfurt Airport Regionalbahnhof . The S8 and S9 each run between Wiesbaden and Offenbach am Main every 30 minutes and complement each other in such a way that they run every 15 minutes. At certain times, these S-Bahn lines between Frankfurt Central Station and Kelsterbach are reinforced.

The Regional Express lines between Frankfurt am Main and Saarbrücken or between Frankfurt am Main and Koblenz run to the regional train station every two hours and thus complement each other at hourly intervals between Frankfurt am Main and Ingelheim am Rhein .

Vehicles with diesel traction are only allowed to enter the regional train station if the exhaust emissions of the type used are not too high. Currently (as of 2016) diesel multiple units of the Coradia LINT series stop at the regional train station.

line Line course Tact
S8 Wiesbaden Hbf  - Wiesbaden Ost  - Mainz North  - Mainz Hbf  - Mainz Roman Theater  - Mainz-Gustavsburg  - Mainz-Bischofsheim  - Rüsselsheim Opelwerk  - Rüsselsheim  - Raunheim  - Kelsterbach  - Frankfurt (Main) Airport  - Frankfurt (Main) Gateway Gardens  - Frankfurt am Main Stadium  - Frankfurt-Niederrad  - Frankfurt (Main) Hbf deep  - Frankfurt (Main) Taunusanlage  - Frankfurt (Main) Hauptwache  - Frankfurt (Main) Konstablerwache  - Frankfurt (Main) Ostendstraße  - Frankfurt (Main) Mühlberg  - Offenbach-Kaiserlei - Offenbach Leather Museum - Offenbach Marktplatz  - Offenbach (Main) Ost  (-  Mühlheim (Main)  - Mühlheim (Main) Dietesheim  - Steinheim (Main)  - Hanau Hbf ) 30 min
S9 Wiesbaden Hbf  - Wiesbaden Ost  - Mainz-Kastel  - Mainz-Bischofsheim  - Rüsselsheim Opelwerk  - Rüsselsheim  - Raunheim  - Kelsterbach  - Frankfurt (Main) Airport  - Frankfurt (Main) Gateway Gardens  - Frankfurt am Main Stadium  - Frankfurt-Niederrad  - Frankfurt (Main) Hbf deep  - Frankfurt (Main) Taunusanlage  - Frankfurt (Main) Hauptwache  - Frankfurt (Main) Konstablerwache  - Frankfurt (Main) Ostendstraße  - Frankfurt (Main) Mühlberg  - Offenbach-Kaiserlei - Offenbach Leather Museum - Offenbach Marktplatz  - Offenbach (Main) Ost  - Mühlheim ( Main)  - Mühlheim (Main) Dietesheim  - Steinheim (Main)  - Hanau Hbf 30 min
RE 2 Koblenz  - Boppard  - Bingen  - Mainz  - Frankfurt Airport - Frankfurt 120 min
RE 3 Saarbrücken  - Bad Kreuznach - Mainz - Frankfurt Airport - Frankfurt 120 min
RE 59 Frankfurt Airport - Frankfurt South - Frankfurt East - Maintal East - Hanau 120 min (Mon-Fri)
RB 31 Kirchheimbolanden - Alzey - Mainz - Mainz Roman Theater - Rüsselsheim - Frankfurt Airport - Frankfurt individual trains

Web links

Commons : Frankfurt (Main) Flughafen Regionalbahnhof  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Location, track systems, signals and speeds of the station on the OpenRailwayMap

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ For 30 years it has been straight from the plane to the train . In: Meeting point at Frankfurt Airport . Herbst, 2013, ZDB -ID 2188981-8 , p. 2 ( PDF ). PDF ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ The world meets in FRA . In: STARTfrei . No.  1 , 2015, ZDB -ID 2451228-X , p. 8th f . ( PDF ). PDF ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ a b Frankfurt am Main airport regional train station is being modernized for almost 10 million euros and made accessible to the disabled. In: deutschebahn.com. Deutsche Bahn, December 6, 2017, accessed on January 3, 2018 .
  4. ^ A b c Wilhelm Bender : The connection of the Frankfurt airport to the railway network . In: Railways in the Frankfurt RheinMain region , Hestra-Verlag, Darmstadt, 2002, ISBN 3-7771-0304-7 , pp. 150–161.
  5. ↑ a b c d Kurt Wendler: The solution to local traffic problems in the Frankfurt (M) conurbation . In: The Federal Railroad . tape 43 , no. 21/22 , 1969, ISSN  0007-5876 , pp. 1029-1040 .
  6. ^ A b c New train station: Frankfurt Airport . In: The Federal Railroad . tape 46 , no. 7 , 1972, p. 355-357 .
  7. ^ A b c Walter Engels: The connection of the Frankfurt / Main airport to the track network of the German Federal Railroad . In: The Federal Railroad . tape 46 , no. 3/4 , 1972, ISSN  0007-5876 , pp. 211-218 .
  8. ↑ a b The Frankfurt Airport Railway (M) . In: The Federal Railroad . tape 42 , no. 21/22 , 1968, ISSN  0007-5876 , pp. 863 .
  9. ^ Bichler: Airport train now to the city of Frankfurt . In: The Federal Railroad . tape 56 , no. 7 , 1980, ISSN  0007-5876 , pp. 504 .
  10. ↑ a b Klaus Daumann: A world airport and the city of Frankfurt are becoming even more attractive . In: The Federal Railroad . tape 56 , no. 6 , 1980, ISSN  0007-5876 , pp. 399-400 .
  11. ↑ Visit to the Rhein-Main Airport and the Frankfurt Airport Railway (M) . In: Die Bundesbahn , 6/1973, p. 407 f.
  12. ^ A b Udo Marggraf: Airport S-Bahn Frankfurt (Main): Planning and construction of the second section . In: The Federal Railroad . tape 56 , no. 5 , 1980, ISSN  0007-5876 , pp. 327-332 .
  13. ^ Deutsche Bundesbahn, main administration (ed.): The new railway. About us. Brochure, 86 A4 pages, Frankfurt am Main, May 1985, p. 45.
  14. ↑ a b Without an author: Starting shot at the Frankfurter Kreuz . In: Eisenbahn Journal , special edition 3/2002, ISBN 3-89610-095-5 , pp. 64–66.
  15. ↑ a b c d Gunter Pietsch: Connection of the major airports to the rail network of the DB . In: The Federal Railroad . tape 65 , no. 11 , 1989, ISSN  0007-5876 , pp. 952-954 .
  16. ↑ a b long-distance train station for Frankfurt Airport . In: The Federal Railroad . tape 66 , no. 6 , 1980, ISSN  0007-5876 , pp. 617 .
  17. ↑ New construction and expansion lines . In: The Federal Railroad . Vol. 66, No. 1, 1990, ISSN  0007-5876 , pp. 82-87.
  18. ↑ Annual review 1988 - new and upgraded routes . In: Die Bundesbahn 1/1989, p. 61.
  19. ↑ Regional train station at the airport closed for three weeks . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , No. 112, May 15, 2007, p. 36.
  20. ↑ www.rmv.de: Station descriptions Frankfurt Airport Accessed on November 6, 2011
  21. ↑ Trains / Lines. In: fahrplan.oebb.at. Retrieved December 23, 2016 .
  22. ↑ Trains / Lines. In: fahrplan.oebb.at. Retrieved December 23, 2016 .