S3 (Rhine-Main S-Bahn)


S3
S-Bahn Rhein-Main
 

S3 at its terminal in Bad Soden
Basic data
Opening 1978
Client body RMV
Operational data
Operator DB Regio Hessen
Vehicle type EMU
(DBAG Class 423)
Route and performance data
Route length 49 km
Stations 29
Journey time 65 Minutes
Speed 45.2 km/h (avg.)
Station distance 1690 m (avg.)
Frequency (RH/MD/N) 30 / 30 / 60 Minutes
Hours 04:47 am – 01:55 am
 

The S3 service of the S-Bahn Rhein-Main system bearing the KBS (German scheduled railway route) number 645.3

Contents

Routes

Limes Railway

Homburg Railway

City tunnel

The city tunnel is an underground, pure S-Bahn route used by almost all services (except for the S7 service which terminates at the central station). In a short section between Mühlberg and Offenbach-Kaiserlei the South Main railway is used.

Main-Neckar Railway

History

Year Stations Route
1974 (R3) 11 Frankfurt-Höchst – Frankfurt Hbf
1978 15 (+4) Frankfurt-Höchst – Hauptwache
1983 16 (+1) Frankfurt-Höchst – Konstablerwache
1990 19 (+3) Frankfurt-Höchst – Frankfurt Süd
1997 26 (+10, -3) Bad Soden – Darmstadt Hbf
1999 27 (+1) Bad Soden – Darmstadt Hbf
2002 28 (+1) Bad Soden – Darmstadt Hbf
2008 29 (+1) Bad Soden – Darmstadt Hbf

The S3 was one of the first six services of the Rhine-Main S-Bahn system. In a prior test operation it ran between Frankfurt-Höchst and Frankfurt Central Station. The service was then called R3 where the letter "R" stands for regional. After the opening of the Frankfurt Citytunnel the service was renamed to S3 and extended to the new Hauptwache underground station. Further extensions of the tunnel followed in 1983 (Konstablerwache) and 1990 (Ostendstraße and Lokalbahnhof) so that the Südbahnhof (South station) became the service's eastern terminal.

Operation

  1. Bad Soden – Darmstadt Hbf
  2. Frankfurt Hbf – Darmstadt Hbf
  3. Bad Soden – Langen (Sundays only)
S3 Journey time Station Transfer S-Bahn service
since
1 2 3

Main-Taunus-Kreis

0 Bad Soden 1978
2 +2 Sulzbach Nord 1978
5 +3 Schwalbach Limes 1978
6 +1 Schwalbach Nord 2008
9 +3 Eschborn-Niederhöchstadt S4 1978
11 +2 Eschborn S4 1978
13 +2 Eschborn-Süd S4 1978

Frankfurt am Main

17 +4 Frankfurt-Rödelheim S4 S5 1978
20 +3 Frankfurt West S4 S5 S6 1978
22 +2 Frankfurt Messe S4 S5 S6 1999
24 +2 Frankfurt Galluswarte S4 S5 S6 1978
27 +3 Frankfurt Hbf (tief) S1 S2 S4 S5 S6 S7 S8 S9 U4 U5 1978
29 +2 Taunusanlage S1 S2 S4 S5 S6 S8 S9 1978
31 +2 Hauptwache S1 S2 S4 S5 S6 S8 S9 U1 U2 U3 U6 U7 U7 1978
32 +1 Konstablerwache S1 S2 S4 S5 S6 S8 S9 U4 U5 U6 U7 1983
34 +2 Ostendstraße S1 S2 S4 S5 S6 S8 S9 1990
36 +2 Frankfurt Lokalbahnhof S4 S5 S6 1990
38 +2 Frankfurt South Station S4 S5 S6 U1 U2 U3 U7 1990
40 +2 Frankfurt Stresemannallee S4 1990
42 +2 Frankfurt Louisa S4 1997

Kreis Offenbach

45 +3 Neu-Isenburg S4 1997
48 +3 Dreieich-Buchschlag S4 1997
50 +2 Langen Flugsicherung S4 2002
52 +2 Langen S4 1997
55 +3 Egelsbach 1997

Kreis Darmstadt-Dieburg

57 +2 Erzhausen 1997

Darmstadt

59 +2 Darmstadt-Wixhausen 1997
62 +3 Darmstadt-Arheilgen 1997
65 +3 Darmstadt Hbf 1997

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