Frankfurt-Höchst Farbwerke station
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Frankfurt Höchst Farbwerke station
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| Through station | |
Track field, freight yard and Farbwerke station
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| Location |
Höchst, Hesse Germany |
| Coordinates | 50°5′54″N 8°31′41″E / 50.09833°N 8.52806°ECoordinates: 50°5′54″N 8°31′41″E / 50.09833°N 8.52806°E |
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| Platforms | 2 |
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| Station code | 1763 |
| DS100 code | FFAW |
| Category | 5 |
| Website | www.bahnhof.de |
| History | |
| Opened | 1967 |
Frankfurt-Höchst Farbwerke station is a station in the district of Höchst of the city of Frankfurt in the German state of Hesse on the Main-Lahn Railway. It is now served by lines S1 and S 2 of the Rhine-Main S-Bahn. The station is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 5 station. Despite absorption of the city of Höchst by Frankfurt in 1928, the official name of the station continued to be Farbwerke Hoechst ("Hoechst dye works"), but the station signs have been changed to Frankfurt-Höchst Farbwerke.
Before the current station was built, there had been a station called Farbwerke on the Königstein Railway, which had a pedestrian connection to the dye works over a long steel bridge, known as the Eiserner Steg ("Iron Bridge"), after a more famous pedestrian bridge in central Frankfurt.
The current station was built in 1967 at the northern gate of the Höchst Industrial Park (Industriepark Höchst) and in 1978 it was incorporated into the S-Bahn network. The new platform is only accessible via a pedestrian tunnel, which has three entrances: two public entrances on both sides of the street of Hoechster-Farben-Straße, on which the Industriepark Höchst Tor Nord (“Höchst Industrial Park North Gate”) bus stop is located, and a private entrance on the grounds of the industrial park.
In addition to its use by employees of the Industrial Park the station also benefits from its proximity to the Centennial Hall (Jahrhunderthalle), which is used for concerts and conferences, and the Fraport Arena.
The pushbutton signal box of Frankfurt-Hoechst station is also in the platform area. It is responsible for controlling signalling and points at the stations of Frankfurt-Höchst, Frankfurt-Sindlingen, Hattersheim (Main), Frankfurt-Zeilsheim and Kriftel.
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