The station is located on the South Main S-Bahn line between Frankfurt and Hanau, which runs parallel with a section of the Frankfurt–Bebra railway. The S-Bahn line is single track here, as it is all the way from Mülheim Dietenheim station to Hanau Central Station.The single platform is on the northeast side of the track and is served by trains in both directions. The platform is located on the side of the track away from central Steinheim. This is a somewhat unusual arrangement made necessary because the S-Bahn track runs on the northern side of the line in order to cross Steinheim Main Bridge and to connect immediately afterwards to the tracks on the northern side of Hanau station. The station was brought into operation with the opening of the S-Bahn in 1995 and it is now served by lines S 8 and S 9.
History
It replaces the previous Steinheim station, which was at the same place on the Frankfurt–Bebra railway and opened in 1873. Its original name was Klein Steinheim. The station building was, however, on the southeast side of the tracks. The railway also had a freight track with a goods shed for local freight. The station served the former municipality of Steinheim, which was absorbed into the city of Hanau in 1974 as part of the Hessian municipal reform. Owing to various constraints on the route of the Frankfurt–Bebra railway, such as the location of the bridge over the Main and the junction with the north bank line of the Frankfurt-Hanau Railway Company in Hanau Central Station, Steinheim station was established quite far from the centres of Steinheim, Klein-Steinheim and Niedersteinheim and of Obersteinheim and Groß-Steinheim, which meant that traffic was quickly lost to private cars. The station was closed in several steps: first, in the early 1970s the top floor and the first floor of the entrance building were removed, leaving the mutilated torso of the building with a flat roof. Freight traffic was abandoned. During the construction of the S-Bahn, the station building was finally abandoned and demolished to be replaced by a park and ridecar park.
Services
The station is served only by S-Bahn lines S 8 and S 9, both running between Wiesbaden–Hanau, although only S 8 runs via Mainz.
