Operations
With 650 trains per day (as of 2007), the corridor between Mannheim and Frankfurt/Mainz is one of the most heavily trafficked lines in German. A further increase to 900 trains in the corridor is expected by 2015.
In addition to the regional services of the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund and the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Neckar, three Intercity-Express lines run on the Ried Railway, connecting southern Germany with Berlin, Hamburg and Cologne/Dortmund.
A Regional-Express service (RE 70) operates between Mannheim and Frankfurt and a Regionalbahn service (RB 62) operates between Worms and Biblis. One Regional Express operates each way between Frankfurt and Worms at night. Services of Rhine-Main S-Bahn line 7 run between Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof and Riedstadt-Goddelau. A Regionalbahn service (RB 2) operates between Biblis, Mannheim and Karlsruhe. This service is planned to be integrated in the Rhine-Neckar S-Bahn in the future.
After the opening of the new the Rhine/Main–Rhine/Neckar high-speed line, capacity on the Ried Railway will be sufficient to allow Rhine-Main S-Bahn S-Bahn line to Gross-Gerau 7 to run every quarter of an hour rather than every half hour.
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