| S8 | |
| Color: | 7fc31c |
| Type: | Rapid transit, Commuter rail |
| System: | S-Bahn Rhein-Main |
| Status: | Operational |
| Locale: | Frankfurt Rhine-Main |
| Start: | Wiesbaden Hauptbahnhof |
| End: | Hanau Hauptbahnhof |
| Stops: | 29 |
| Line Used: | Main Railway, Citytunnel Frankfurt, Frankfurt Schlachthof–Hanau railway |
| Predecessor: | S14, S15 |
| Owner: | Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund |
| Operator: | DB Regio |
| Depot: | Frankfurt Hbf |
| Stock: | DBAG Class 430 |
| Distance: | 70.3 km |
| Routenumber: | 645.8 |
| El: | Overhead line |
| Map State: | collapsed |
The S8 service of the S-Bahn Rhein-Main system bearing the KBS (German scheduled railway route) number 645.8. It is largely concurrent with the S9 service, diverging only to run local through Mainz (which the S9 bypasses). It runs 24 hours, 7 days.
See main article: Main Railway.
See main article: Frankfurt 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). In a short section between Mühlberg and Offenbach-Kaiserlei a line parallel with the South Main railway is used.
See main article: Frankfurt Schlachthof–Hanau railway.
| Year | Stations | Route | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 (R14) | 15 | Wiesbaden Hbf – Frankfurt Hbf | |
| 1983 (S14) | 18 (+3) | Wiesbaden Hbf – Konstablerwache | |
| 1990 (S14) | 21 (+3) | Wiesbaden Hbf – Frankfurt Süd | |
| 1995 | 28 (+9, -2) | Wiesbaden Hbf – Hanau Hbf |
In 1990 two S14 trainsets collided near the Rüsselsheim station killing 17 and injuring 145 passengers. The conductor of the train bound for Frankfurt ignored the stop signal and crashed into an oncoming, fully occupied train.[1]
| Journey time | Station | Transfer | S-Bahn service since | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |||||||
Wiesbaden | ||||||||||||
| 0 | Wiesbaden Hbf | 1978 | ||||||||||
| 4 | +4 | Wiesbaden Ost | 1978 | |||||||||
Mainz | ||||||||||||
| 7 | +3 | Mainz Nord | 1978 | |||||||||
| 12 | +5 | Mainz Hauptbahnhof | 1978 | |||||||||
| 16 | +4 | Mainz Römisches Theater | 1978 | |||||||||
Kreis Groß-Gerau | ||||||||||||
| 19 | +3 | Mainz-Gustavsburg | 1978 | |||||||||
| 22 | +3 | Mainz-Bischofsheim | 1978 | |||||||||
| 25 | +3 | Rüsselsheim-Opelwerk | 1978 | |||||||||
| 28 | +3 | Rüsselsheim | 1978 | |||||||||
| 31 | +3 | Raunheim | 1978 | |||||||||
| 36 | +5 | Kelsterbach | 1978 | |||||||||
Frankfurt am Main | ||||||||||||
| 42 | +6 | Frankfurt Flughafen Regionalbahnhof | 1978 | |||||||||
| 44 | +2 | --> | Gateway Gardens | 2019 | ||||||||
| 46 | +2 | Frankfurt Stadion | 1978 | |||||||||
| 49 | +3 | Frankfurt-Niederrad | 1978 | |||||||||
| 53 | +4 | Frankfurt Hbf | 1978 | |||||||||
| 54 | +5 | Frankfurt Hbf (tief) | 1978 | |||||||||
| 56 | +2 | Taunusanlage | 1978 | |||||||||
| 58 | +2 | Hauptwache | 1978 | |||||||||
| 59 | +1 | Konstablerwache | 1983 | |||||||||
| 61 | +2 | Ostendstraße | 1990 | |||||||||
| 63 | +2 | Mühlberg | 1992 | |||||||||
Offenbach | ||||||||||||
| 66 | +3 | Offenbach-Kaiserlei | 1995 | |||||||||
| 68 | +2 | Ledermuseum | 1995 | |||||||||
| 70 | +2 | Marktplatz | 1995 | |||||||||
| 73 | +3 | Offenbach Ost | 1995 | |||||||||
Kreis Offenbach | ||||||||||||
| 77 | +4 | Mühlheim | 1995 | |||||||||
| 79 | +2 | Mühlheim-Dietesheim | 1995 | |||||||||
Main-Kinzig-Kreis | ||||||||||||
| 82 | +3 | Hanau-Steinheim | 1995 | |||||||||
| 82 | +3 | Hanau Hbf | 1995 | |||||||||