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Maintal Ost station

Coordinates: 50°08′32″N 8°50′06″E / 50.142091°N 8.835046°E / 50.142091; 8.835046
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Maintal Ost
Deutsche Bahn
Through station
Maintal Ost station, platform 1 in the foreground, 2 and 3 in the background
General information
LocationBahnhofstr. 127, Maintal, Hesse
Germany
Coordinates50°08′32″N 8°50′06″E / 50.142091°N 8.835046°E / 50.142091; 8.835046
Owned byDeutsche Bahn
Operated byDB Station&Service
Line(s)
Platforms3
Other information
Station code2809[1]
DS100 codeFHD[2]
IBNR8002877
Category4[1]
Fare zoneRhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (RMV): 2901[3]
Websitewww.bahnhof.de
History
OpenedPrior to 1858
Services
Preceding station DB Regio Bayern Following station
Maintal West RE 54 Hanau-Wilhelmsbad
towards Bamberg
Preceding station Hessische Landesbahn Following station
Frankfurt (Main) Ost RE 59 Hanau Hbf
towards Bamberg
Maintal West RB 58 Hanau-Wilhelmsbad
towards Laufach
Location
Maintal Ost is located in Hesse
Maintal Ost
Maintal Ost
Location within Hesse
Maintal Ost is located in Germany
Maintal Ost
Maintal Ost
Location within Europe
Maintal Ost is located in Europe
Maintal Ost
Maintal Ost
Maintal Ost (Europe)

Maintal Ost (east) is a station in the network of the Rhine-Main Transport Association (German: Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund, RMV) on the Frankfurt Süd–Aschaffenburg 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

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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

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Siding to the former Kling factory from track 3 (dismantled at the end of 2010)

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

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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 Hochstadt and the Dörnigheim sides. In addition, there is taxi parking on the Dörnigheim side.

Operations

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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.

Buses

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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

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  1. ^ a b c "Stationspreisliste 2024" [Station price list 2024] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 24 April 2023. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
  2. ^ Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
  3. ^ "Tarifinformationen 2021" (PDF). Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund. 1 January 2021. p. 134. Retrieved 8 April 2021.