MainLinie
The MainLinie was a regional light rail in the sense of the Karlsruhe model , which was operated by Hanauer Straßenbahn AG .
From April 20, 2004 to December 11, 2004, the railway ran from Hanau via Maintal and Frankfurt am Main as a two-system light rail system to Frankfurt Airport and the Rüsselsheim Opel factory .
The company had borrowed type GT8-100D / 2S-M light rail vehicles from Karlsruhe . Four pairs of trains were driven on weekdays exclusively on the Deutsche Bahn network .
The MainLinie was an attempt and was no longer operated from 2005 by resolution of the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (RMV) . It should provide information about the need for bistros and toilets in the rapid transit system ( S-Bahn and light rail ) in the Rhine-Main area as well as the possible increase in passengers with improved timetable offerings in the form of additional trains and the newly created direct connection between Hanau , Main Valley and the airport Frankfurt and the Rüsselsheim Opel factory .
This is of particular interest for the assessment of the Hanau - Maintal - Frankfurt am Main corridor , as a fundamental decision between the S-Bahn, the extension of the U6 or a light rail system based on the proposal of the Hanau Stadtbahn Working Group is pending. However, more recent cost-benefit studies show that a dual-system railway in the form of the U6 has a capacity bottleneck with the opening of Hanauer Landstrasse through a tunnel in the east of Frankfurt.
The line had the following stops:
- Hanau Central Station
- Hanau West
- Hanau Wilhelmsbad
- Main valley east
- Main Valley West
- Frankfurt am Main Ostbahnhof
- Frankfurt am Main Südbahnhof
- Frankfurt am Main Airport
- Ruesselsheim
- Rüsselsheim Opel factory
See also
literature
- Marianne Jacoby and Martina Raskop: Hanau and the tram. 100 years of HSB . Ed .: Baugesellschaft Hanau GmbH , City Council of Hanau, Hanauer Geschichtsverein 1844 eV Hanau 2008. ISBN 978-3-00-025086-6