Frankfurt Airport loop

Overview

Native name

Flughafenschleife Frankfurt

Locale

Hesse, Germany

Line number

3683

Technical

Line length

15.8 km (9.8 mi)

Route number

645.8, 645.9

Route map

From City Tunnel

0.0

Frankfurt Central Station

City Tunnel

Homburg Railway and Main-Weser Railway

to Frankfurt West

Taunus Railway to Frankfurt-Höchst

Taunus Railway

Main-Lahn Railway to Frankfurt-Griesheim

Main

4.4

Frankfurt-Niederrad

Main-Neckar Railway to Neu-Isenburg

6.2

Frankfurt-Stadion

Mannheim–Frankfurt railway to Gernsheim

Main Railway to Kelsterbach

Main Railway

10.2

Frankfurt airport tunnel

2,234 m

Cologne–Frankfurt high-speed line

11.4

Frankfurt Airport regional station

12.4

Frankfurt Airport tunnel

2,234 m

12.6

Cologne–Frankfurt high-speed line

Main Railway from Frankfurt-Stadion

15.8

Kelsterbach

Main Railway to Raunheim

Source: German railway atlas

The Frankfurt Airport loop (German: Flughafenschleife Frankfurt) is a 15.8 kilometers long double-track railway line connecting Frankfurt and Frankfurt Airport and operated as part of the Frankfurt S-Bahn. It is electrified at 15 kV. 16.7 Hz.

Source: German railway atlas

The line is part of the Frankfurt S-Bahn network, connecting Frankfurt Central Station with Frankfurt Airport regional station at Frankfurt Airport and Kelsterbach station at Kelsterbach, where it connects with the Main line, for services to and from Mainz and Wiesbaden. The line runs into the airport area via a tunnel to the station, which is built under the airport terminal.

Services of S-Bahn lines 8 and 9 and the regional trains of the RMV regional line 80 run on the line. S-Bahn line 7 runs on the line from Frankfurt Central Station to Frankfurt Stadion station at the Commerzbank-Arena football stadium. The S-Bahn operates at 15-minute intervals between Wiesbaden and Hanau via Frankfurt Central and either via Mainz (S8) or via Mainz-Kastel (S9). Regional trains operate every hour between Koblenz and Saarbrücken and Frankfurt over the line.

Plans are currently being developed for a new station north of the airport site at Gateway Gardens (a new housing and commercial development being built on the former residential area for the Rhein-Main Air Base), possibly including a new tunnel, on the line traffic between Stadion and Airport stations.

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