Steinheim (Main) station

Steinheim (Main) station
Separation station
Location	Hanau, Hesse Germany
Coordinates	50°07′17″N 8°54′24″E / 50.12139°N 8.90667°ECoordinates: 50°07′17″N 8°54′24″E / 50.12139°N 8.90667°E
Line(s)	Frankfurt–Hanau (south bank) railway (km 69.9) (KBS 645.8/9)
Platforms	1
Other information
Station code	5998[1]
DS100 code	FSHM[2]
IBNR	8005706
Category	5[1]
History
Opened	1995
Services
Preceding station   Rhine-Main S-Bahn   Following station Mühlheim-Dietesheim toward Wiesbaden Hbf Hanau Hbf Terminus

Steinheim (Main) station^[3] is a station on the Frankfurt–Hanau (south bank) railway in Hanau in the German state of Hesse. The station is classified by Deutsche Bahn (DB) as a category 5 station.^[1]

Location and description

The station is located on the South Main S-Bahn line (DB line no. 3680) between Frankfurt and Hanau, which runs parallel with a section of the Frankfurt–Bebra railway (DB line no. 3600). The S-Bahn line is single track here, as it is all the way from Mülheim (Main) Dietenheim station to Hanau Central Station (German: Hanau Hauptbahnhof).The single platform is on the northeast side of the track and is served by trains in both directions. The platform is located on the side of the track away from central Steinheim. This is a somewhat unusual arrangement made necessary because the S-Bahn track runs on the northern side of the line in order to cross Steinheim Main Bridge and to connect immediately afterwards to the tracks on the northern side of Hanau station. The station was brought into operation with the opening of the S-Bahn in 1995 and it is now served by lines S 8 and S 9.

History

It replaces the previous Steinheim (Kr. Offenbach) station, which was at the same place on the Frankfurt–Bebra railway and opened in 1873. Its original name was Klein Steinheim.^[4] The station building was, however, on the southeast side of the tracks. The railway also had a freight track with a goods shed for local freight.

The station served the former municipality of Steinheim (Kr Offenbach), which was absorbed into the city of Hanau in 1974 as part of the Hessian municipal reform. Owing to various constraints on the route of the Frankfurt–Bebra railway, such as the location of the bridge over the Main and the junction with the north bank line of the Frankfurt-Hanau Railway Company (Frankfurt-Hanauer Eisenbahn Gesellschaft, FHE) in Hanau Central Station (then called Hanau Ost (east)), Steinheim station was established quite far from the centres of Steinheim, Klein-Steinheim and Niedersteinheim (0.5 km) and of Obersteinheim and Groß-Steinheim (1.8 km), which meant that traffic was quickly lost to private cars.

The station was closed in several steps: first, in the early 1970s the top floor and the first floor of the entrance building were removed, leaving the mutilated torso of the building with a flat roof. Freight traffic was abandoned. During the construction of the S-Bahn, the station building was finally abandoned and demolished to be replaced by a park and ride car park.

Services

The station is served only by S-Bahn lines S 8 and S 9, both running between Wiesbaden–Hanau, although only S 8 runs via Mainz.

Notes

1. "Stationspreisliste 2017" [Station price list 2017] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 18 November 2016. Retrieved 14 December 2016.
2. Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
3. Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. p. 153. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
4. Reichs-Kursbuch 1914, Kursbuchstrecke 177.