Frankfurt Airport long-distance station
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Frankfurt (Main) Airport
long-distance station Frankfurt am Main Flughafen Fernbahnhof  |
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| Through station | |
Exterior of station in 2000. The glass dome is now integrated into a development called The Squaire
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| Location | Hugo-Eckener-Ring 1, Frankfurt, Hesse Germany |
| Coordinates | 50°03′10″N 8°34′12″E / 50.05278°N 8.57000°ECoordinates: 50°03′10″N 8°34′12″E / 50.05278°N 8.57000°E |
| Line(s) | Cologne–Frankfurt high-speed rail line |
| Platforms | 4 |
| Other information | |
| Station code | 7982 |
| DS100 code | FFLF |
| Category | 3 |
| Website | www.bahnhof.de |
| History | |
| Opened | 30 May 1999 |
| Traffic | |
| Passengers (2009) | 23,000 per day |
Frankfurt am Main Airport long-distance station (German: Frankfurt am Main Flughafen Fernbahnhof) is a railway station at Frankfurt Airport in Frankfurt, Germany. It is served by long-distance trains, mostly ICE services running on the Cologne–Frankfurt high-speed rail line. It is the largest railway station serving an airport in Germany with about 23,000 passengers each day. The station is served by 210 long-distance trains daily, of which 185 are Intercity-Expresses. It and Limburg Süd Station are the only railway stations in Germany that are served exclusively by long-distance trains.
The station was opened in 1999 as part of the first part of the Cologne–Frankfurt high-speed line; the great majority of the high-speed line opened in 2002. It is 660 m long and 45 m high. It features a large dome containing a lounge area and a ticket hall, and is connected to the airport by a skyway that crosses the Autobahn 3. The Squaire, a one-billion-euro complex containing office space, hotels, convention centres and other facilities, has been built above the station. Nearby is Frankfurt Airport regional station which is located beneath Terminal 1 of the airport and which provides local S-Bahn services to Frankfurt, Wiesbaden and Mainz.
The station is located between the Frankfurter Kreuz Tunnel—which runs under the Frankfurter Kreuz, an important autobahn interchange in the east, connecting toward Frankfurt Central Station and Mannheim, and Kelsterbacher Spange (Kelsterbach Link) Tunnel in the west, the beginning of the high-speed section of the new line.
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