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Limes Railway

Niederhöchstadt–Bad Soden
Overview
Locale Hesse, Germany
Line number 3641
Technical
Line length 5.2 km (3.2 mi)
Track gauge 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 12 in) standard gauge
Electrification 15 kV/16.7 Hz AC overhead
Route number 645.3
Route map
5.2 Bad Soden (Taunus) S3Frankfurt S3.svg terminus
Sulzbacher Straße
Soden Railway to Frankfurt-Höchst
Main road
3.8 Sulzbach Nord
L 3367
L 3014
Schwalbach S-Bahn tunnel
1.9 Schwalbach am Taunus (Limes)
L 3014
0.9 Schwalbach am Taunus Nord
Am Kronberger Hang
L 3005
Gartenstraße LC
Kronberg Railway from Kronberg S4Frankfurt S4.svg
0.0 Niederhöchstadt
Kronberg Railway to Frankfurt-Rödelheim
Source: German railway atlas

The Limes Railway (German: Limesbahn) is a continuously electrified and single-track railway that runs on the southern edge of the Taunus in the German state of Hesse, connecting the towns of Niederhöchstadt and Bad Soden am Taunus. It is named after Limesstadt (Limes city), a housing development.

The line is only 5.2 kilometres long and is served by S-Bahn line S3, connecting Bad Soden station—which is a terminus also used by the Soden Railway—via Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof to Darmstadt Hbf.

Beginning in 1964 a large greenfield housing development was built on the outskirts of Schwalbach am Taunus called Limesstadt (Limes City, named after the Roman fortifications of the Limes Germanicus, which actually lay more than 10 kilometres north of this site). It was considered that this development needed the kind of public transport access that could only be provided by rail. This idea was adopted by Georg Leber, the Federal Minister for Transport from 1966 to 1972 and the local member of the Bundestag. This led to the building of an electrified branch line to serve the area.

On 22 December 1970, a shuttle service opened between Niederhöchstadt station on the Kronberg Railway and the new Schwalbach Limes station. On 6 November 1972, the gap was closed to Bad Soden (Taunus) station, which until then was only connected by the Soden Railway to Frankfurt-Höchst.


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