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Frankfurt U-Bahn
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subterranean rapid transit for the Frankfurt region
Key facts
- Locale
- Frankfurt , Hesse, Germany
- Transit type
- Light rail ( Stadtbahn ), rapid transit
- Daily ridership
- 360,000 (2023)
- Annual ridership
- 123.6 million (2023)
- Website
- VGF
- Began operation
- 4 October 1968 ; 57 years ago ( 4 October 1968 )
- Operator s
- Stadtwerke Verkehrsgesellschaft Frankfurt am Main (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
- 2-15 minutes (daytime)
- System length
- 64.85 km (40.3 mi)
- Track gauge
- 1,435 mm ( 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in ) standard gauge
- Electrification
- 600 V DC from overhead catenary
- Top speed
- 80 km/h (50 mph)
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Verkehrsgesellschaft Frankfurt am Main | VGF
Alle fahren mit! Die Verkehrsgesellschaft Frankfurt am Main, kurz VGF, ist das Frankfurter Verkehrsunternehmen und der Verkehrsdienstleister der Stadt. Auf neun U-Bahn- und zehn Straßenbahn-Linien sorgen rund 400 Schienenfahrzeuge für umfassende Mobilität.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Stadtbahn
- Country
- Germany
- Located in
- Frankfurt
- Official website
- www.vgf-ffm.de
- Image
- Westend-u-bahn-c-linie-2010-ffm-001.jpg
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- date of official opening
- 1968-10-04
- topic's main category
- Category:Frankfurt U-Bahn
- Commons gallery
- U-Bahn Frankfurt
- Commons category
- Frankfurt U-Bahn
- track gauge
- standard-gauge railway
- inception
- 1968-10-04
- daily patronage
- 400000
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Encyclopedic overview
The Frankfurt U-Bahn is a Stadtbahn (premetro) system serving Frankfurt, Germany. Together with the Rhine-Main S-Bahn and the tram network, it forms the backbone of the public transport system in Frankfurt. Its name derives from the German term for underground railway, Untergrundbahn. Since 1996, the U-Bahn has been owned and operated by Stadtwerke Verkehrsgesellschaft Frankfurt am Main [de] (VGF), the public transport company of Frankfurt, and is part of the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (RMV) transport association. The licence contract is up to 31 December 2031 and is renewable. The contracting authority of VGF is the municipal transport company traffiQ.
The U-Bahn opened in 1968, 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. The network operates on a variety of right of ways typical of a light rail system, with core sections running underground in the inner city and some above-ground sections operating on street.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Frankfurt U-Bahn” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.