Zeppelinheim station
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Zeppelinheim station is a station in the district of Zeppelinheim of the town of Neu-Isenburg
Neu-Isenburg
The “Huguenot Town” of Neu-Isenburg with its outlying centres of Gravenbruch and Zeppelinheim is found in the Offenbach district in the Regierungsbezirk of Darmstadt in Hesse, Germany, right near Frankfurt am Main...

 in the German state of Hesse
Hesse
Hesse or Hessia is both a cultural region of Germany and the name of an individual German state.* The cultural region of Hesse includes both the State of Hesse and the area known as Rhenish Hesse in the neighbouring Rhineland-Palatinate state...

. It is located in the urban periphery of Frankfurt am Main and adjacent to Frankfurt Airport
Frankfurt Airport
Frankfurt Airport may refer to:Airports of Frankfurt, Germany:*Frankfurt Airport , the largest airport in Germany*Frankfurt Egelsbach Airport, a general aviation airport*Frankfurt-Hahn Airport , a converted U.S...

. The station is at the junction with a connecting curve from the Ried Railway  to Frankfurt Airport long-distance station.

Rail services

The station is served by line S7
S7 (Rhine-Main S-Bahn)
The S7 service of the S-Bahn Rhein-Main system bearing the KBS number 645.7- History :The S7 is the newest S-Bahn service in the system. It started its operation in 2002. Before that a regional railway service ran on exactly the same route.- Operation :- External links :*...

 of the Rhine-Main S-Bahn
Rhine-Main S-Bahn
The Rhine-Main S-Bahn system is an integrated rapid transit and commuter transport system for the Frankfurt/Rhine-Main region, which includes the cities Frankfurt am Main, Wiesbaden, Mainz, Offenbach am Main, Hanau and Darmstadt...

. Each day a single service of the Regionalbahn
RegionalBahn
The Regionalbahn is a type of local passenger train in Germany.-Service:Regionalbahn trains usually call at all stations on a given line, with the exception of RB trains within S-Bahn networks, these may only call at selected stations...

 RB70 each way at night stops at the Zeppelinheim station. On Sundays and public holidays two Regionalbahn trains stop running towards Frankfurt, one in the morning and one in the evening. No Regionalbahn trains stop in the opposite direction on Sundays and holidays.

One service of the regional bus line OF-64 between Dreieich and Frankfurt Airport stops at the station on school days for school students.

The station was opened in the late 1930s to serve the Zeppelin
Zeppelin
A Zeppelin is a type of rigid airship pioneered by the German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin in the early 20th century. It was based on designs he had outlined in 1874 and detailed in 1893. His plans were reviewed by committee in 1894 and patented in the United States on 14 March 1899...

 base opened nearby in 1936, which developed into Frankfurt Airport.

Prospects

As part of the Frankfurt–Mannheim high-speed railway project and the new transport concept for the Frankfurt area a bus connection to the planned Terminal 3 at Frankfurt Airport is being considered, possibly involving the reconstruction of Zeppelinheim station.
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