- Mainbahn
The Mainbahn (Main Line) is a 37.5 km-long double-track electrified railway line, which runs on the south side of the Main River from
Mainz to Frankfurt central station.History
Immediately after the opening of the Rhine-Main Line from Mainz to
Aschaffenburg by the Hessische Ludwigsbahn railway in 1858, it was anxious to also own a connection to Frankfurt. Therefore it built the new line from a branch off the Rhine-Main Line at Bischofsheim along the left (southern) bank of the Main to Frankfurt. It thereby put itself into competition with the parallel Taunus railway, which runs on the right bank of the Main. The concession for building and operating the line was awarded byGrand Duchy of Hesse on15 August 1861 and by the senate of theFree City of Frankfurt on17 January 1862 .The building of the line took only one and a half years. A test run took place on
20 December 1862 and it was opened on3 January 1863 . The line originally ran through the former Forsthaus station and today's Friedensbrücke (Peace Bridge, now a road bridge) in Frankfurt across the Main to the former Main-Neckar station. This entry was replaced on16 January 1882 by the current alignment through Goldstein station (later: Frankfurt-Sportfeld, now: Frankfurt stadium station), Niederrad station and the Niederräder Main bridge.On
1 February 1897 , it along with the rest of the Hessische Ludwigsbahn railway became part of the Prussian-Hessian railway. The line was electrified in 1960.Services
The following suburban services operate on the Mainbahn:
S-Bahn lines:
*S8:Hanau –City-Tunnel Frankfurt–"Niederrad"–"Mainz"–"Wiesbaden"
*S9:Hanau –City-Tunnel Frankfurt–"Niederrad"–"Mainz-Kastel "–"Wiesbaden"RegionalBahn :
*RB 75: "Wiesbaden"–"Mainz"–"Mainz-Bischofsheim", continuing to DarmstadtRegionalExpress :
* RE/SE 80: "Frankfurt"–"Frankfurt Airport"–Mainz , continuing to Koblenz orSaarbrücken
=References
* Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland – 2005/2006 edition, Vlg. Schweers + Wall, 2005, ISBN 3-89494-134-0 de icon
* Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Hessen (Hrsg.): "Eisenbahn in Hessen. Eisenbahnenbauten- und strecken 1839–1939", 1st edition. Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8062-1917-6, Bd. 2.1, S. 302ff (Strecke 018). de icon
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