Maintal Ost station
Maintal Ost station | |
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| Through station | |
 Maintal Ost station, platform 1 in the foreground, 2 and 3 in the background | |
| Location |
Maintal, Hesse Germany |
| Coordinates | 50°08′32″N 8°50′06″E / 50.142091°N 8.835046°ECoordinates: 50°08′32″N 8°50′06″E / 50.142091°N 8.835046°E |
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| Platforms | 3 |
| Other information | |
| Station code | 2809 |
| DS100 code | FHD |
| Category | 4 [1] |
| Website | www.bahnhof.de |
| History | |
| Opened | Prior to 1858 |
Maintal Ost (east) station is a station in the zone of the Rhine-Main Transport Association (German: Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund, RMV) on the Frankfurt-Hanau Railway, serving the Maintal districts of Hochstadt and Dörnigheim in the German state of Hesse. The station is classified by Deutsche Bahn (DB) as a category 4 station.[1]
Location
The Regionalbahn station is at a centrally located and easily accessible location between Hochstadt and Dörnigheim: in the south from Hochstadt and in the north from Dörnigheim.
History
On 10 June 1848, the Frankfurt-Hanau railway was opened by the Frankfurt-Hanau Railway Company (Frankfurt-Hanauer Eisenbahn Gesellschaft, FHE), but at that time there was no station at the current location. Like the neighbouring Rumpenheim station (later Bischofsheim-Rumpenheim and now Maintal West), the former Hochstadt–Dörnigheim station (now Maintal Ost) was built by 1858.
Infrastructure
The station now consists of four tracks, but two of them are passing loops, which are not used for scheduled trains.
When the station handled freight, there were a total of six tracks, supplemented by several sidings. It mainly served Furnierwerk Kling, which was demolished in 1998, and the Intu-Bau company.
For passenger transport, there are now three platforms on the two main tracks and a passing loop to the north. The station building is located on the south side but is no longer used for passengers. It is rented out for events. Tickets for travel in the RMV area and for long-distance services on Deutsche Bahn are available from vending machines. There are free park and ride spaces on both the Hochstädter and the Dörnigheimer sides. In addition, there is taxi parking on the Dörnigheim side.
Operations
On weekdays, trains run every half hour from 5 AM to 9 PM, and hourly on weekends, except on Saturday mornings, when they run every half hour. There are Regionalbahn and Regional-Express services operated by DB Regio and services operated by VIAS, all running between Frankfurt South station and Hanau Central Station. Some trains run west from/to Frankfurt Central Station or Frankfurt Airport and in the east from/to Aschaffenburg, Würzburg, Nuremberg, Groß-Umstadt Wiebelsbach and Bad Soden-Salmünster. At peak times trains run more frequently than every half hour.
Scheduled trains run on track 1 (towards Hanau ) and track 2 (towards Frankfurt). Trains to Frankfurt stop on track 3 when overtaking delayed trains.
| Preceding station | Deutsche Bahn | Following station | ||
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toward Frankfurt (Main) Hbf | SE 50 Kinzig Valley Railway | toward Wächtersbach |
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| RE 55 Main-Spessart Railway | toward Würzburg Hbf |
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Maintal West toward Frankfurt (Main) Hbf | RB 55 Main-Spessart Railway | Hanau-Wilhelmsbad toward Aschaffenburg Hbf |
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| Preceding station | VIAS | Following station | ||
toward Frankfurt (Main) Hbf | RE 64 Odenwald Railway | toward Groß-Umstadt Wiebelsbach or Erbach |
Buses
On the south side of the station, in Dörnigheim, is the bus station, which is served by routes 22 and 23 to Hochstadt, Dörnigheim, Wachenbuchen and to Enkheim U-Bahn station in Frankfurt-Bergen-Enkheim.
Notes
- 1 2 "Stationspreisliste 2016" [Station price list 2017] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 18 November 2016. Retrieved 14 December 2016.