Frankfurt U-Bahn

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Frankfurt U-Bahn
U-Bahn.svg
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Underground station Westend on Lines U6 & U7.
Overview
Owner RMV
Locale Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany
Transit type Rapid transit/Light rail[1]
Number of lines 9[2]
Number of stations 86[2]
Daily ridership 321,000 (2012)[2]
Annual ridership 117.3 million (2012)[2]
Website VGF
Operation
Began operation 4 October 1968[3]
Operator(s) Verkehrsgesellschaft Frankfurt (VgF)
Character Mostly underground, with significant sections at-grade (including at-grade intersections), with some street running (U5 line)
Train length 50–105 metres (164–344 ft)
Headway 5-15 minutes (daytime)
Technical
System length 64.9 km (40.3 mi)[2]
Track gauge 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in)
(standard gauge)
Top speed 80 km/h (50 mph)
System map
U-Bahnnetz Frankfurt

The Frankfurt U-Bahn, together with the Rhine-Main S-Bahn and the Frankfurt Straßenbahn, forms the backbone of the public transport system of Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany. Its name derives from the German term for underground, Untergrundbahn. Since 1996, the U-Bahn has been owned and operated by Verkehrsgesellschaft Frankfurt (VgF), the public transport company of Frankfurt, and is part of the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (RMV) transit association.

The U-Bahn opened in 1968,[3] and has been expanded several times. It consists of three inner-city tunnels and above-ground lines in the suburbs. About 59% of the track length is underground.[citation needed] The above-ground sections operate at different standards from traditional rapid transit systems due to the independent expansion of at-grade rail for those sections – they are more like light rail[1] (Stadtbahn) due to their not being fully grade-separated.[4]

The network consists of 86 stations on nine lines, with a total length of 64.85 kilometres (40.30 mi).[2] Eight of the nine lines travel through the city center (line U9 being the exception). In 2012, the U-Bahn carried 117.3 million passengers,[2] an average of approximately 321,000 passengers per day.

History

Planning began in the 1950s to replace the overburdened streetcars with a more robust public transit system. The various local political parties put forward plans for a full U-Bahn, a streetcar system with an underground section downtown (i.e. a Stadtbahn), and an elevated railway, respectively. Eventually politics, in the form of the 1964 municipal election, resolved the issue in favor of the U-Bahn project that began as a light rail/Stadtbahn network using tunnels in Frankfurt's city core, but which in the future would be transformed into a fully rapid transit U-Bahn network.[citation needed]

The U-Bahn opened on 4 October 1968, with the underground route from Hauptwache to Nordweststadt.[3]

Current routes

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See also: List of Frankfurt U-Bahn stations

The U-Bahn consists of nine lines, U1 to U9, running on three primary routes based on the three tunnels, with a planned fourth route from the suburbs to the Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof only partially completed:

Route Line Path Stations
A
(and D)		 U1Frankfurt U1.svg Ginnheim - Römerstadt - Nordwestzentrum - Hauptwache - Willy-Brandt-Platz - Südbahnhof 20
A U2Frankfurt U2.svg Bad Homburg-Gonzenheim - Ober-Eschbach - Nieder-Eschbach - Bonames - Hauptwache - Willy-Brandt-Platz - Südbahnhof 21
A U3Frankfurt U3.svg Oberursel-Hohemark - Oberursel - Niederursel - Hauptwache - Willy-Brandt-Platz - Südbahnhof 28
B
(and C+D)		 U4Frankfurt U4.svg Enkheim - Schäfflestraße - Seckbacher Landstraße - Bornheim - Konstablerwache - Willy-Brandt-Platz - Hauptbahnhof - Festhalle/Messe - Bockenheimer Warte 15
B U5Frankfurt U5.svg Preungesheim - Eckenheim - Hauptfriedhof - Konstablerwache - Willy-Brandt-Platz - Hauptbahnhof 16
C U6Frankfurt U6.svg Heerstraße - Bockenheimer Warte - Hauptwache - Konstablerwache -
Ostbahnhof		 15
C U7Frankfurt U7.svg Hausen - Bockenheimer Warte - Hauptwache - Konstablerwache - Eissporthalle -
Hessen-Center - Enkheim		 20
A
(and D)		 U7Frankfurt U8.svg Riedberg - Niederursel - Hauptwache - Willy-Brandt-Platz - Südbahnhof 19
D
(and A)		 U7x15px Nieder-Eschbach - Riedberg - Niederursel - Nordwestzentrum - Römerstadt - Ginnheim 12
File:Mk Frankfurt U-Bahn Linien.png
Frankfurt U-Bahn network map showing Sections A, B, C.

Rolling stock

  • U1 Class (1966–76)
  • U2 Class (1968–present) – Deployed on U4 & U6
  • U3 Class (1980–present) – Deployed on U6
  • U4 Class (1994–present) – Deployed on U1–U3, U8 & U9
  • U5 Class (2009–present) – Deployed on U1–U4, U6–U9
  • Pt Class (1979–present) – Tramcars, deployed on U5

See also

References

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German
  • Jens Krakies, Frank Nagel, Stadt Frankfurt am Main (Hrsg.): Stadtbahn Frankfurt am Main: Eine Dokumentation. 2. Auflage. Frankfurt am Main 1989, ISBN 3-923907-03-6, S. 23–42. (Standardwerk zur U-Bahn und ihrer Baugeschichte)
  • Dieter Höltge, Günter H. Köhler: Straßen- und Stadtbahnen in Deutschland. 2. Auflage. 1: Hessen, EK-Verlag, Freiburg 1992, ISBN 3-88255-335-9, S. 23–42. (Alle ehemaligen und bestehenden Straßenbahnbetriebe in Hessen, außerdem ein Kapitel zur Frankfurter U-Bahn, die 2. Auflage besitzt einen Anhang mit Aktualisierungen)
  • Hans-Werner Schleife, Günter Götz: Lexikon Metros der Welt. Geschichte, Technik, Betrieb. transpress, Berlin/Stuttgart 1985. ISBN 3-613-01068-2 (101 U-Bahn-Betriebe der Welt, einschl. Beschreibung des Frankfurter Betriebs)
  • Walter Söhnlein, Jürgen Leindecker: Die Frankfurter Lokalbahn und ihre Elektrischen Taunusbahnen. GeraMond, München 2000. ISBN 3-932785-04-5 (Die U-Bahn ist nicht zentraler Gegenstand des Buches, als Nachfolgerin der Lokalbahnstrecken wird die Entwicklung der A-Strecken jedoch ausführlich beschrieben)
  • Thomas Hanna-Daoud (Red.): Nahverkehr in Frankfurt. Trambahn, U-Bahn, S-Bahn, Omnibus, Eisenbahn. Strassenbahn-Nahverkehr special. Nr. 7. GeraMond, München 2000. ISBN 3-89724-010-6 (Sonderheft des bekannten ÖPNV-Magazins zu allen Frankfurter ÖV-Netzen)
  • Magistrat der Stadt Frankfurt am Main Stadtbahnbauamt (Hrsg.): Die C-Strecke der U-Bahn Frankfurt am Main. Stadtbahnbauamt, Frankfurt am Main 1986. (Informationen über Planung, Bau und Architektur der C-Strecke in Wort und Bild)
  • Stadt Frankfurt am Main (Hrsg.): Gesamtverkehrsplan Frankfurt am Main. Ergebnisbericht 2004 (pdf). (Studie im Auftrag des Stadtplanungsamts zur zukünftigen Entwicklung Frankfurter Verkehrsnetze)
  • Stadt Frankfurt am Main (Hrsg.): Inbetriebnahme der U-Bahn. Übergabe der Hauptwache und Eröffnung des Nordwestzentrums. Publizität des Presse- und Informationsamts, Frankfurt am Main 1969.

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