Mainz-Kastel station is situated on the Frankfurt–Wiesbaden line (line number 3603;

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Mainz-Kastel Mainz-Kastel is a district of the city Wiesbaden, which is the capital of the German state Hesse in western Germany. Kastel is the historical bridgehead of Mainz, the capital of the German state Rhineland-Palatinate and is located on the right si ...

, now a suburb of

Wiesbaden Wiesbaden () is a city in central western Germany and the capital of the state of Hesse. , it had 290,955 inhabitants, plus approximately 21,000 United States citizens (mostly associated with the United States Army). The Wiesbaden urban area ...

, in the German state of

Hesse Hesse (, , ) or Hessia (, ; german: Hessen ), officially the State of Hessen (german: links=no, Land Hessen), is a States of Germany, state in Germany. Its capital city is Wiesbaden, and the largest urban area is Frankfurt. Two other major histor ...

. It was opened as part of the Taunus Railway, which was opened in 1839/40. The station was opened as part of the last stage of construction of the line to Wiesbaden and was opened on 19 May 1840. Kastel station is also served by the Regionalbahn service running between

Neuwied Neuwied () is a town in the north of the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, capital of the District of Neuwied. Neuwied lies on the east bank of the Rhine, 12 km northwest of Koblenz, on the railway from Frankfurt am Main to Cologne. Th ...

and Frankfurt (RB 10) every hour. In the rush hour it extends to a half-hourly service.

Buses

The following lines of ESWE and MVG serve the station (bus station ''Brückenkopf''): 6, 6A, 9, 28, 54, 55, 56, 57, 68, 91, 99.

Notes

{{Navbox Rhine-Main S-Bahn Rhine-Main S-Bahn stations Railway stations in Wiesbaden Railway stations in Germany opened in 1840