Maintal Ost station

Maintal Ost
Maintal Ost
	Through station
	Maintal Ost station, platform 1 in the foreground, 2 and 3 in the background
Location	Bahnhofstr. 127, Maintal, Hesse; Germany
Coordinates	50°08′32″N 8°50′06″E
Owned by	Deutsche Bahn
Operated by	DB Station&Service
Line(s)	Frankfurt–Maintal–Hanau (12.3 km) (KBS 640, 641);
Platforms	3
Other information
Station code	2809[1]
DS100 code	FHD[2]
IBNR	8002877
Category	4[1]
Fare zone
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	Prior to 1858
Services
Location
	Maintal Ost Location within Hesse Maintal Ost Location within Europe Maintal Ost Maintal Ost (Europe)

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.

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

"Stationspreisliste 2021" [Station price list 2021] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 16 November 2020. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.

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

RB 55 at platform 2 (towards Frankfurt)

Old station sign near Eichenheege level crossing

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[categories-1] "Stationspreisliste 2021" [Station price list 2021] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 16 November 2020. Retrieved 3 December 2020.

[Eisenbahnatlas-2] Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.