However, these options would have meant—at least during the construction period, possibly also permanently due to changes in groundwater flows–a massive intervention in the usability of the areas for agriculture, so that some saw it as a threat to farms in Oberrad.

Only at Kaiserlei would a short tunnel have been built to bring the S-Bahn line closer to the town.

Just as with the line implemented, this draft provided for the option of building a station to serve up to 20,000 visitors to a planned sports hall.

This part of the line lies entirely in a branch of the Frankfurt City Tunnel.

The S-Bahn route runs south of the long-distance line between Offenbach Ost and Dietesheim and then pivots to the north side.

A single-track It ends at the northern-most platform in Hanau Hauptbahnhof so that in future it can also be served by the North Main S-Bahn line.

[2] Due to earmarked funding, only S-Bahn trains are generally allowed to run between Offenbach Ost and Hanau north side.