Frankfurt am Main Messe station (german: link=no, Bahnhof Frankfurt am Main Messe) is an

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station in

Frankfurt am Main Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian: , " Frank ford on the Main"), is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located on it ...

, 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. Constructing the platform was a complex procedure as the space between the tracks had to be enlarged. The road next to the line had to be moved and a bridge had to be rebuilt.

Services

The station is served by S-Bahn lines S3, S4, S5 and S6.

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and regional trains run past on the Main Weser tracks, which have no platforms at Messe.

References

Rhine-Main S-Bahn stations Railway stations in Frankfurt Railway stations in Germany opened in 1999 {{Germany-metro-stub