The S5 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 compris ...

system bearing the KBS (German scheduled railway route) number 645.5

Routes

Homburg Railway

The Homburg Railway connects

Frankfurt Central Station Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof, also called Frankfurt Central Station and Frankfurt Main Station, is the busiest train station in the German state of Hesse. Due to its location near the middle of Germany and usage as a transport hub for long an ...

with

Friedrichsdorf Friedrichsdorf () is a town of the Hochtaunuskreis, some north of Frankfurt am Main in Hesse, Germany. Geography Location Friedrichsdorf is located in the Taunus area, ranking third among the Hochtaunuskreis boroughs after Bad Homburg vor der ...

, via

Bad Homburg Bad Homburg vor der Höhe (, ) is the district town of the Hochtaunuskreis, Hesse, Germany, on the southern slope of the Taunus mountains. Bad Homburg is part of the Frankfurt Rhein-Main urban area. The town's official name is ''Bad Homburg ...

. It was opened on 10 September 1860 and electrified on 26 September 1970. S-Bahn services commenced on the line on 25 September 1977.

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).

History

The S5 was one of the first six services of the Rhine-Main S-Bahn system. In a prior test operation it ran between

and

. The service was then called R5 where the letter "R" stands for regional. After the opening of the Frankfurt Citytunnel the service was renamed to S5 and extended to the new Hauptwache underground station. Further extensions of the tunnel followed in 1983 (

Konstablerwache Konstablerwache is a square in the centre of Frankfurt am Main and part of the city's pedestrian zone. It lies to the east of Hauptwache with both squares linked by the Zeil, the central shopping street of the city. History At the corner of th ...

) and 1990 ( Ostendstraße and Lokalbahnhof) so that the Südbahnhof (South station) became the service's eastern terminal. S5-bad-homburg-2010-004

Operation

# Friedrichsdorf – Frankfurt Süd # Bad Homburg – Frankfurt Süd

External links

traffiQ Frankfurt – S5 timetable
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