The S9 service of the

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

system bearing the KBS (German scheduled railway route) number 645.9. It is largely concurrent with the S8 service, diverging only to bypass

Mainz Mainz () is the capital and largest city of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Mainz is on the left bank of the Rhine, opposite to the place that the Main joins the Rhine. Downstream of the confluence, the Rhine flows to the north-west, with Ma ...

(which the S8 serves locally).

Routes

Taunus Railway

Main 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 a line parallel with the South Main railway is used.

South Main S-Bahn

History

This service was first introduced in 2000 to provide an alternative route to Wiesbaden via Frankfurt Airport skipping

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and its capital

Operation

# Wiesbaden Hbf – Hanau Hbf # Wiesbaden Hbf – Frankfurt Hbf # Wiesbaden Hbf – Offenbach Ost ''(sundays only)'' # Flughafen Regionalbahnhof – Frankfurt Hbf ''(former S15 service)'' # Flughafen Regionalbahnhof – Offenbach Ost ''(sundays only)''

References

External links

traffiQ Frankfurt – S8/S9 timetable
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