Niederhöchstadt station

Niederhöchstadt station
Through station
Location	Eschborn, Hesse Germany
Coordinates	50°09′14″N 8°32′51″E / 50.1538886°N 8.5475564°E / 50.1538886; 8.5475564Coordinates: 50°09′14″N 8°32′51″E / 50.1538886°N 8.5475564°E / 50.1538886; 8.5475564
Line(s)	Limes Railway (5.8 km) (KBS 645.3 S3) Kronberg Railway (0.0 km) (KBS 645.4 S4)
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	4500
DS100 code	FNHS
Category	5 ^[1]
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	1 November 1874

Niederhöchstadt station is a junction station in the Niederhöchstadt district of the town of Eschborn in the German state of Hesse. The stations of Eschborn and Eschborn Süd are nearby. Just north-west of the station the Limes Railway to Bad Soden separates from the Kronberg Railway to Kronberg. The station is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 5 station.^[1]

History

Niederhöchstadt station was opened by the Kronberg Railway Company (German: Cronberger Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, using the old spelling of Kronberg) along with the line to Kronberg on 1 November 1874. The station building dates from the turn of the century in 1900 and is a heritage-listed building. It is a two-storey brick building with a shallow hipped roof with a small tented roof covered with dormers. The platform side of the building has a complex structure with a central projection covered by a gable, wall panels and cornices. A polygonal bay window was later added on the ground floor for supervisory personnel and an annex was built on the north side.^[2]

On 22 December 1970, the first section of the Limes railway was opened between Niederhöchstadt and the Schwalbach Limes station on the edge of Eschborn and opened as a shuttle service. Almost 2 years later, on 6 November 1972, the gap to Bad Soden was closed. Up to that time Bad Soden only had a rail connection via the Soden Railway to Frankfurt-Höchst, which is now operated as Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund line RB 13.

Since 28 May 1978, the Rhine-Main S-Bahn have operated as line S 3 over the Limes Railway and line S 4 over the Kronberg Railway, at first running only to Frankfurt Central Station. They now terminate at Langen (S4) and Darmstadt Central Station (S3).

Services

The station is now served only by S-Bahn lines S 3 and S 4, running from Bad Soden (S 3) and Kronberg (S 4) to Frankfurt Central underground station, Frankfurt South, Neu-Isenburg, Langen (terminus of S 4) and Darmstadt (terminus of S 3).

Preceding station		Rhine-Main S-Bahn		Following station
Schwalbach Nord toward Bad Soden		S3		Eschborn toward Darmstadt Hbf
Kronberg Süd toward Kronberg		S4		Eschborn toward Langen

Notes

1 2 "Stationspreisliste 2016" [Station price list 2016] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 1 December 2015. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
↑ "Niederhöchstadt station" (in German). Landesamtes für Denkmalpflege Hessen. Retrieved 25 June 2012.

Rhine-Main S-Bahn

Services	S1 S2 S3 S4 S5 S6 S7 S8 S9

Routes	Frankfurt City Tunnel Offenbach City Tunnel Frankfurt Airport loop South Main S-Bahn Homburg Railway Kronberg Railway Limes Railway Main Railway Main-Lahn Railway Main-Neckar Railway Main–Weser Railway Offenbach-Bieber–Dietzenbach railway Mannheim–Frankfurt railway Rodgau Railway Taunus Railway

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