Frankfurt Airport Regional station

Frankfurt (Main) Airport regional station Frankfurt (Main) Flughafen Regionalbahnhof S
Underground through station
Underground platforms
Location	Hugo-Eckener-Ring 1, Frankfurt, Hesse Germany
Coordinates	50°3′7″N 8°34′14″E / 50.05194°N 8.57056°E / 50.05194; 8.57056Coordinates: 50°3′7″N 8°34′14″E / 50.05194°N 8.57056°E / 50.05194; 8.57056
Line(s)	Frankfurt Airport loop (645.8, 645.9)
Platforms	3
Other information
Station code	1849
DS100 code	FFLU
Category	3
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	14 March 1972
Services
Preceding station   Rhine-Main S-Bahn   Following station Kelsterbach toward Wiesbaden Hbf S8 Stadion toward Hanau Hbf S9 Preceding station   Deutsche Bahn   Following station Rüsselsheim toward Koblenz Hbf RE 2 Left Rhine Railway Frankfurt-Niederrad toward Frankfurt (Main) Hbf Preceding station   Vlexx   Following station Rüsselsheim toward Saarbrücken Hbf RE 3 Rhein-Nahe-Express Frankfurt (Main) Hbf Terminus

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 March 14, 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).

In 1999, a second train station opened at Frankfurt Airport (Frankfurt Airport long-distance station) which is primarily used by long-distance trains, mostly ICE services.

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.

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 long and the outer platform is 210 m long. 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.

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 long airport loop line amounted to 100 million Deutsche Mark (approximately 51 million Euro), with Deutsche Bundesbahn funding half and the other half split between FAG and the federal government. The station was opened on March 14, 1972. It served initially as a station for regional trains, but its 410 m long central platform was ready from the beginning to handle also long-distance trains.