S4 (Rhine-Main S-Bahn)
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The S4 service of the S-Bahn Rhein-Main system bearing the KBS (German scheduled railway route) number 645.4
The S4 was one of the first six services of the Rhine-Main S-Bahn system. In a prior test operation it ran between Kronberg and Frankfurt Central Station. The service was then called R4 where the letter "R" stands for regional. After the opening of the Frankfurt Citytunnel the service was renamed to S4 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.
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.History
| Year | Stations | Route |
|---|---|---|
| 1974 (R4) | 6 | Kronberg – Frankfurt Hbf |
| 1978 | 10 (+4) | Kronberg – Hauptwache |
| 1983 | 11 (+1) | Kronberg – Konstablerwache |
| 1990 | 14 (+3) | Kronberg – Frankfurt Süd |
| 1997 | 19 (+5) | Kronberg – Langen |
| 1999 | 21 (+2) | Kronberg – Langen |
| 2002 | 22 (+1) | Kronberg – Langen |
The S4 was one of the first six services of the Rhine-Main S-Bahn system. In a prior test operation it ran between Kronberg and Frankfurt Central Station. The service was then called R4 where the letter "R" stands for regional. After the opening of the Frankfurt Citytunnel the service was renamed to S4 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
- Kronberg – Langen
- Frankfurt Hbf – Langen
- Kronberg – Darmstadt Hbf (Sundays only)
| Journey time | Station | Transfer | S-Bahn service since |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||||||||
Main-Taunus-Kreis |
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| 0 |  |
Kronberg | 1978 | |||||||||
| 2 | +2 | |
Kronberg Süd | 1999 | ||||||||
| 5 | +3 | Eschborn-Niederhöchstadt | 1978 | |||||||||
| 7 | +2 | Eschborn | 1978 | |||||||||
| 9 | +2 | |
Eschborn-Süd | 1978 | ||||||||
Frankfurt am Main |
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| 13 | +4 | Frankfurt-Rödelheim Frankfurt-Rödelheim station Frankfurt Rödelheim station is a regional and S-Bahn station in western Frankfurt am Main, Germany on the Homburg line, in the district of Rödelheim. The Kronberg line branches off the Homburg line north of the station and the junction with the Rebstock curve of the former Bad Nauheim–Wiesbaden... |
1978 | |||||||||
| 16 | +3 | Frankfurt West Frankfurt West station Frankfurt West station is a regional and S-Bahn station in western Frankfurt am Main, Germany on the Main-Weser Railway, in the district of Bockenheim, near the Frankfurt Trade Fair grounds and the Bockenheim campus of the Goethe University Frankfurt.... |
1978 | |||||||||
| 18 | +2 | |
Frankfurt Messe Frankfurt Messe station Frankfurt Messe station is an S-Bahn station in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in the district of Bockenheim in the middle of the Frankfurt Trade Fair grounds. The station was opened in 1999 to improve the fair’s public transport connections. It consists of two platform tracks facing a central platform... |
1999 | ||||||||
| 20 | +2 | Frankfurt Galluswarte Frankfurt Galluswarte station Frankfurt Galluswarte station is an S-Bahn station to the west of central Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in the district of Gallus.The station was opened on 28 May 1978 and is named after a nearby medieval watchtower, which was named after the Galgenfeld... |
1978 | |||||||||
| 23 | +3 | |
Frankfurt Hbf (tief) | 1978 | ||||||||
| 25 | +2 | Taunusanlage | 1978 | |||||||||
| 27 | +2 | |
Hauptwache | 1978 | ||||||||
| 28 | +1 | |
Konstablerwache | 1983 | ||||||||
| 30 | +2 | Ostendstraße | 1990 | |||||||||
| 32 | +2 | Frankfurt Lokalbahnhof Frankfurt Lokalbahnhof Frankfurt Lokalbahnhof is an underground S-Bahn station in the district of Sachsenhausen of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The station was opened when the City Tunnel was extended to Frankfurt South station in 1990. It consists of two tracks, surrounding a central platform.The station is an important... |
1990 | |||||||||
| 34 | +2 | |
Frankfurt South Station | 1990 | ||||||||
| 36 | +2 | |
Frankfurt Stresemannallee | 1990 | ||||||||
| 38 | +2 | |
Frankfurt Louisa | 1997 | ||||||||
Kreis Offenbach |
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| 41 | +3 | |
Neu-Isenburg | 1997 | ||||||||
| 44 | +3 | |
Dreieich-Buchschlag | 1997 | ||||||||
| 46 | +2 | |
Langen Flugsicherung | 2002 | ||||||||
| 48 | +2 | Langen | 1997 | |||||||||
| 51 | +3 | |
Egelsbach | 1997 | ||||||||
Kreis Darmstadt-Dieburg |
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| 53 | +2 | |
Erzhausen | 1997 | ||||||||
Darmstadt |
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| 55 | +2 | Darmstadt-Wixhausen | 1997 | |||||||||
| 57 | +3 | |
Darmstadt-Arheilgen | 1997 | ||||||||
| 61 | +3 | |
Darmstadt Hbf Darmstadt Hauptbahnhof is the Hauptbahnhof of the German city Darmstadt. After Frankfurt Hbf and Wiesbaden Hbf, it is the third largest station in the state of Hesse. It is the second busiest station in Hesse, servicing 35 000 passengers and 220 trains per day.... |
1997 | ||||||||