Frankfurt Airport regional station

Frankfurt (Main) Airport regional station

Frankfurt (Main) Flughafen Regionalbahnhof
Frankfurt (Main) Airport regional station; Frankfurt (Main) Flughafen Regionalbahnhof ;
Underground through station
	Underground platforms
General information
Location	Hugo-Eckener-Ring 1, Frankfurt, Hesse ; Germany
Coordinates	50°3′7″N8°34′14″E / 50.05194°N 8.57056°E
Owned by	Deutsche Bahn
Operated by	DB Netz ; DB Station&Service ;
Line(s)	Frankfurt Airport loop (645.8, 645.9);
Platforms	1 island platform ; 1 side platform
Tracks	3
Train operators	DB Regio Mitte ; S-Bahn Rhein-Main ; Vlexx
Connections
Other information
Station code	1849
DS100 code	FFLU
IBNR	8070004
Category	3
Fare zone	: 5090
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	14 March 1972
Services
Location
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Last updated March 25, 2024

Frankfurt (Main) Airport regional station (German : Frankfurt (Main) Flughafen Regionalbahnhof) is an underground railway station at Frankfurt Airport in Frankfurt, Germany. It provides local S-Bahn and Regionalbahn services to the city and the Frankfurt/Rhine-Main Metropolitan Region. The station opened on 14 March 1972 together with a new passenger terminal (Terminal Mitte, now called Terminal 1). At the time it was only the second railway station serving an airport in Germany (after Berlin Schönefeld Airport Station).

Name

Escalators to railway platform Wikimania05-bahnhof.jpg — Escalators to railway platform

Prior to the commissioning of the airport's second train station this station was called just Frankfurt am Main Airport station (German: Bahnhof Frankfurt am Main Flughafen). Both regional and long-distance trains ran from this station until 1999.

Station layout

The regional train station is located underneath Terminal 1, concourse B. It is designed as an underground through station and has three platform tracks (called "Regio 1" to "Regio 3"), of which tracks 2 and 3 are on either side of a central platform. The central platform is 410 m (1,350 ft) long and the outer platform is 210 m (690 ft) long.^[4] Vehicles with diesel traction may enter the regional station only when the level of their exhaust emissions are below set limits. Currently class 612 diesel multiple units operate hourly through the regional station on the Frankfurt Central Station–Saarbrücken Central Station route.

History

A three-track underground station was already envisaged when a new and larger passenger terminal was planned at Frankfurt Airport in the mid-1960s. In April 1969, Deutsche Bundesbahn (today called Deutsche Bahn) and the airport operator FAG (today called Fraport) signed a funding agreement on connecting the airport to the rail network. The costs for the station and the 7.5 km (4.7 mi) long airport loop line amounted to 100 million Deutsche Mark (approximately €51 million), with Deutsche Bundesbahn funding half and the other half split between FAG and the federal government. The station was opened on 14 March 1972. It served initially as a station for regional trains, but its 410 m (1,350 ft) long central platform was ready from the beginning to handle also long-distance trains.^[4]

Between 1982 and 1993 the station was used by the Lufthansa Airport Express , which ran to and from Düsseldorf and Stuttgart.^[5] As part of the enhancement of the Intercity (IC) network in 1985, the station was served hourly by IC services. With the opening of the long-distance station on 30 May 1999, most long-distance traffic operated via the new station.^[6] Occasional long-distance trains still stopped at the regional station, since the long-distance station was closed overnight. Since the annual timetable change in December 2010, the long-distance station is also open at night, so no more scheduled long-distance trains stop at the regional station.

In the late 1980s, it was planned, as part of the construction of the airport's eastern terminal (Terminal 2) and the Cologne–Frankfurt high-speed line, to build a fourth (long-distance) platform track and to upgrade the rail infrastructure, including building a tunnel to connect with the Mannheim–Frankfurt railway towards Zeppelinheim. Despite the high cost that would have been required for the reconstruction of the existing building, it was expected that capacity would not have been sufficient in the medium term. Another proposal considered was to build an additional station in the existing building. Although a feasibility study found that would have had positive returns, this option was rejected due to its high cost.^[6]^[7] Next to the platform provision had been made for the building of another track, which has never been built.

From 9–30 July 2007, the regional train station was closed for the complete replacement of the 30-year-old tracks.^[8] Since the beginning of 2010, the distribution level and the connecting corridor to Terminal 1 have had a new, brighter design following a fundamental modernisation.

From the end of 2017 to December 2020, the station was renovated again. Deutsche Bahn provided funding of almost €10m and the state of Hesse funded €4m. The grant notice was handed over at the station on 6 December 2017.^[9] The work was completed on platform 1 in October 2018 and on platform 2 in March 2019. The floor coverings and platform equipment were replaced, and the walls were also redesigned.^[10]

Services

The following Regional-Express and S-Bahn services stop in Frankfurt Airport regional station:

Line	Route	Frequency
	Wiesbaden Hbf – Mainz Hbf – Frankfurt Airport – Frankfurt (Main) Hbf (tief) – Offenbach Ost (– Hanau Hbf)	30 min
	Wiesbaden Hbf – Mainz-Kastel – Frankfurt Airport – Frankfurt (Main) Hbf (tief) – Offenbach Ost – Hanau Hbf	30 min
RE 2	Koblenz Hbf – Boppard Hbf – Bingen (Rh) Hbf – Mainz Hbf – Frankfurt Airport – Frankfurt (Main) Hbf (Mittelrhein-Main-Express)	120 mins (60 mins in combination)
RE 3	Saarbrücken Hbf – Bad Kreuznach – Mainz Hbf – Frankfurt Airport – Frankfurt (Main) Hbf (Rhein-Nahe-Express)	120 mins (60 mins in combination)
RE 59	Frankfurt Airport – Frankfurt South – Hanau Hbf (– Kahl – Aschaffenburg Hbf – Gemünden (Main) – Würzburg Hbf) (only in peak hours)	Individual services
RB 31	Frankfurt Hbf – Frankfurt Airport – Rüsselsheim – Mainz Hbf – Alzey – (Alzey West – Kirchheimbolanden)	Some trains in the peak (peak direction only)

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v t e Rhine-Main S-Bahn
Services
Routes	Frankfurt City Tunnel Offenbach City Tunnel Frankfurt Airport loop Frankfurt Schlachthof–Hanau railway Homburg Railway Kronberg Railway Limes Railway Main Railway Main-Lahn Railway Main-Neckar Railway Main–Weser Railway Offenbach-Bieber–Dietzenbach railway Mannheim–Frankfurt railway Rodgau Railway Taunus Railway

v t e Airport stations in Germany
Stations with ICE/IC/EC connection	BER Airport Cologne/Bonn Düsseldorf Airport Frankfurt long-distance Leipzig/Halle
Stations with RE or RB connection	Frankfurt regional Friedrichshafen Lübeck
Stations with only S-Bahn connection	Dresden Düsseldorf Airport Terminal Hamburg Hannover Munich Besucherpark Stuttgart
Station with U-Bahn connection	Nuremberg
Station with Tram connection	Bremen Erfurt–Weimar

v t e Railway stations in Frankfurt am Main
IC and ICE	Frankfurt Central (Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof) Frankfurt Airport Long-Distance (Frankfurt (Main) Flughafen Fernbahnhof) Frankfurt South (Frankfurt (Main) Südbahnhof) Frankfurt West (Frankfurt (Main) Westbahnhof)
RB and RE	Frankfurt Airport Regional (Frankfurt (Main) Flughafen Regionalbahnhof) Frankfurt East (Frankfurt (Main) Ostbahnhof) Höchst Mainkur Niederrad Sossenheim Unterliederbach
S-Bahn	Frankfurt Central Underground (Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof tief) Berkersheim Eschersheim Frankfurter Berg Galluswarte Gateway Gardens Griesheim Hauptwache Höchst Farbwerke Konstablerwache Lokalbahnhof Louisa Messe Mühlberg Nied Ostendstraße Rödelheim Sindlingen Stadium (Frankfurt (Main) Stadion) Stresemannallee Taunusanlage Zeilsheim