S8 (Munich) Explained

System:	Munich S-Bahn
Locale:	Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Stations:	32
Operator:	DB Regio Bayern
Stock:	DBAG Class 423
Routenumber:	999.8
Linenumber:	S8
Electrification:	15 kV, 16.7 Hz AC Overhead lines
Website:	https://www.s-bahn-muenchen.de/
Map Name:	map_name
Map State:	uncollapsed

Line S8 is a line on the Munich S-Bahn network. It is operated by DB Regio Bayern. It runs from Herrsching via Weßling, Pasing, central Munich and Munich East to Munich Airport station.

The line operates at 20-minute intervals between Weßling and Munich Airport. Two out of three trains an hour continue from Weßling to Herrsching, so that the gap between trains alternates between 20 and 40 minutes. It is operated using class 423 four-car electrical multiple units, usually as two coupled sets. In the evenings and on Sundays, they generally run as single sets.

The line runs over sections built at various times:

• from Herrsching to Pasing over the Munich–Herrsching railway, opened on 1 July 1903 by the Royal Bavarian State Railways^[1]
• from Pasing to the beginning of the S-Bahn trunk line over tracks running parallel to the Munich–Augsburg railway, opened by the Munich–Augsburg Railway Company on 1 September 1839^[2]
• the S-Bahn trunk line from the approaches to Munich Central Station (Hauptbahnhof) to Munich East station, opened on 1 May 1971^[3]
• from Munich East to Ismaning over the Munich East–Ismaning railway, opened by the Royal Bavarian State Railways. The section through Ismaning was placed underground in 1992 and the section through Unterföhring station in 2005.^[4]
• from Ismaning to Munich Airport over a section of the Munich East–Munich Airport railway opened by Deutsche Bundesbahn in 1992.^[4]

S-Bahn services commenced in 1992 as S-Bahn line between Munich Airport and Pasing. It was later merged with line, which had previously run between Nannhofen (now Mammendorf) and Ismaning. Since December 2009, line has run from Pasing to Herrsching instead of Mammendorf, taking over a section of the former line from Herrsching to Ebersberg.

Operation

1. Munich Airport – Herrsching
2. Munich Airport – Weßling
3. Munich East (Ostbahnhof) – Germering-Unterpfaffenhofen/Gilching-Argelsried (Monday to Friday only)

			Journey time (in min)		Station		Transfer	MVV tariff zone	S-Bahn service since	Image
1	2	3
			0	+2		Munich Airport Terminal	512 635
			2	+5		Munich Airport Besucherpark	512 635
			7	+7		Hallbergmoos	515 691 692 698
			14	+4		Ismaning	X202 230 231 236 531
			18	+3		Unterföhring	189 232 233 234
Munich (München)
			21	+2		Johanneskirchen	154
			23	+2		Englschalking
			25	+4		Daglfing	183 188 189
			29	+2		Leuchtenbergring
			31 (+2 min stop)	+2		Ostbahnhof	X30 145 190 191 213 N43 N44 N45 N74 N75
			35	+2		Rosenheimer Platz
			37	+1		Isartor	132
			38	+2		Marienplatz	132
			40	+1		Karlsplatz	N40 N41 N45
			41	+2		Hauptbahnhof (tief)	X98
			43	+2		Hackerbrücke
			45	+2		Donnersbergerbrücke	153
			47	+1		Hirschgarten	N43 N44 N78
			48	+3		Laim	130 151 168 N78
			51 (+2 min stop)	+2		Pasing	130 159 160 162 265 735 N77 N80 N81
			55	+3		Westkreuz	N77
			58	+1		Neuaubing	267 N80 N81
			59	+3		Freiham	143 N80		2013
			62	+2		Harthaus	851 857
			64 (+1 min stop)	+4		Germering-Unterpfaffenhofen	X845 260 851 852 853 856 857 858 8500
			69	+3		Geisenbrunn
			72	+2		Gilching-Argelsried	X900 X920 947 949 8500
			74	+3		Neugilching	947
			77	+4		Weßling (Oberbay)	X910 921 923 928 947 955
			81	+5		Steinebach	923 928
			86	+5		Seefeld-Hechendorf	820 924 928 950 8400
			91			Herrsching	921 928 950 951 9653

Notes and References

1. Web site: History of the Pasing-Herrsching branch line. Wörthsee-Online. de . 19 March 2012.
2. Book: Wolfgang Klee . Bayerische Eisenbahngeschichte - part 1: 1835-1875, Bayern Report 1. Hermann Merker Verlag. Fürstenfeldbruck . 1994. de.
3. Book: Reinhard Pospischil, Ernst Rudolph . S-Bahn München . Alba . Düsseldorf. 1997 . 3-87094-358-0 . 205 .
4. Web site: Munich East–Munich Airport railway . nordostkultur-muenchen.de . de . 19 March 2013.