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Frankfurt Airport long-distance station
Railway station in Frankfurt, Germany / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Frankfurt am Main Airport long-distance station (German: Frankfurt am Main Flughafen Fernbahnhof) is a railway station at Frankfurt Airport in Frankfurt, Germany. It is served by long-distance trains, mostly ICE services running on the Cologne–Frankfurt high-speed rail line. It is the largest railway station serving an airport in Germany with about 23,000 passengers each day. The station is served by 210 long-distance trains daily, of which 185 are Intercity-Expresses.[2] It and Limburg Süd station are the only railway stations in Germany that are served exclusively by long-distance trains.[3]
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The station was opened in 1999 as part of the first part of the Cologne–Frankfurt high-speed line; the great majority of the high-speed line opened in 2002. It is 660 m (2,170 ft) long and 45 m (148 ft) high. It features a large dome containing a lounge area and a ticket hall, and is connected to the airport by a skyway that crosses the Autobahn 3.
Above the station The Squaire, a one-billion-euro complex (containing office space, hotels, convention centres and other facilities), has been built.
Nearby is Frankfurt Airport regional station which is located beneath Terminal 1 of the airport and which provides local S-Bahn services to Frankfurt, Wiesbaden and Mainz.