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Steinheim (Main) station

Steinheim (Main) station
SS-Bahn-Logo.svg
Separation station
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Location Hanau, Hesse
Germany
Coordinates 50°07′17″N 8°54′24″E / 50.12139°N 8.90667°E / 50.12139; 8.90667Coordinates: 50°07′17″N 8°54′24″E / 50.12139°N 8.90667°E / 50.12139; 8.90667
Line(s)
Platforms 1
Other information
Station code 5998
DS100 code FSHM
IBNR 8005706
Category 5
History
Opened 1995
Services
Preceding station   Rhine-Main S-Bahn   Following station
S8Frankfurt S8.svg
Terminus
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Steinheim (Main) station is a station on the Frankfurt–Hanau (south bank) railway in Hanau in the German state of Hesse. The station is classified by Deutsche Bahn (DB) as a category 5 station.

The station is located on the South Main S-Bahn line (DB line no. 3680) between Frankfurt and Hanau, which runs parallel with a section of the Frankfurt–Bebra railway (DB line no. 3600). The S-Bahn line is single track here, as it is all the way from Mülheim (Main) Dietenheim station to Hanau Central Station (German: Hanau Hauptbahnhof).The single platform is on the northeast side of the track and is served by trains in both directions. The platform is located on the side of the track away from central Steinheim. This is a somewhat unusual arrangement made necessary because the S-Bahn track runs on the northern side of the line in order to cross Steinheim Main Bridge and to connect immediately afterwards to the tracks on the northern side of Hanau station. The station was brought into operation with the opening of the S-Bahn in 1995 and it is now served by lines S 8 and S 9.

It replaces the previous Steinheim (Kr. Offenbach) station, which was at the same place on the Frankfurt–Bebra railway and opened in 1873. Its original name was Klein Steinheim. The station building was, however, on the southeast side of the tracks. The railway also had a freight track with a goods shed for local freight.

The station served the former municipality of Steinheim (Kr Offenbach), which was absorbed into the city of Hanau in 1974 as part of the Hessian municipal reform. Owing to various constraints on the route of the Frankfurt–Bebra railway, such as the location of the bridge over the Main and the junction with the north bank line of the Frankfurt-Hanau Railway Company (Frankfurt-Hanauer Eisenbahn Gesellschaft, FHE) in Hanau Central Station (then called Hanau Ost (east)), Steinheim station was established quite far from the centres of Steinheim, Klein-Steinheim and Niedersteinheim (0.5 km) and of Obersteinheim and Groß-Steinheim (1.8 km), which meant that traffic was quickly lost to private cars.


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