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Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof, also called Frankfurt Central Station and Frankfurt Main Station, is the busiest train station in the German state of Hesse. [2] Due to its location near the middle of Germany and usage as a transport hub for long and short distance travelling, Deutsche Bahn refers to it as the most important station in Germany.
The world's first 2-6-2 Prairie type locomotives were also the first locomotives to enter service on the new Cape gauge mainline of the Cape Government Railways. They were 2-6-2 side-tank engines that were delivered between 1875 and 1879.
The current system has an almost 5-minute frequency for services between Frankfurt and Offenbach Ost and an actual 5-minute frequency for services between Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof and Frankfurt Süd. The group of lines S1, S2, S8 and S9 all share 10 stations, as do the group of lines S3, S4, S5 and S6.
Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof (category 1). The approximately 5,400 railway stations in Germany that are owned and operated by the Deutsche Bahn subsidiary DB Station&Service are divided into seven categories, denoting the service level available at the station.
The minimum service interval is 2.5 minutes, although the usual pattern is that each line runs with a 7.5- to 10-minute frequency which combines to approx 3–5 minutes on the city centre sections served by more than one line. The trains can be as long as 100 m (330 ft) and have a maximum speed of 80 km/h (50 mph).
Four pairs of trains (six pairs on Fridays and Sundays) connect Berlin with Frankfurt in less than 4 hours, making the connection around 15 minutes faster than the one via Braunschweig. [2] The service on the entire section between Berlin and Frankfurt was increased to two-hour intervals with the timetable change in December 2017.
Frankfurt-Berkersheim: 1978 27 +2 Frankfurt-Frankfurter Berg: 1978 29 +2 Frankfurt-Eschersheim: 1978 32 +3 Frankfurt-Ginnheim: 2024 35 +2 Frankfurt West: 1978 37 +2 Frankfurt Messe: 1999 38 +1 Frankfurt Galluswarte: 1978 42 +2 Frankfurt Hbf (tief) 1978 44 +2 Taunusanlage: 1978 45 +1 Hauptwache: 1978 47 +2 Konstablerwache: 1983 49 +2 ...
The first regularly scheduled ICE trains ran from 2 June 1991 from Hamburg-Altona via Hamburg Hbf–Hannover Hbf–Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe–Fulda–Frankfurt Hbf–Mannheim Hbf and Stuttgart Hbf toward München Hbf at hourly intervals [12] on the new ICE line 6.