München Ost railway station

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The Station from above

München Ost (German for Munich East, colloquially also called Ostbahnhof) is a railway station in Munich. It was constructed as Haidhausen in 1871 as part of the railway lines to Mühldorf and Rosenheim. The station is the third interregional station in Munich next to München-Pasing in the west of Munich and München Hauptbahnhof in the city centre.

1 History
2 Operational usage
- 2.1 S-Bahn
- 2.2 U-Bahn

[edit] History

1 May 1871 Opening of the station as part of the line to Neuötting
15 October 1871 Opening of the line to Rosenheim
15 October 1876 Renaming of the station into München Ost
1927 Electrification
April 1944 Station damaged by air raids
1972 The station becomes part of the Munich S-Bahn network
1988 The station becomes part of the Munich U-Bahn network
1999 Refurbishment of the station building

[edit] Operational usage

The station has 17 tracks. Tracks 1-5 are use by the S-Bahn, tracks 6-8 and 11-14 are used by regional and interregional traffic. Tracks 9,10 and 15 are through tracks. Tracks 16 and 17 are used by auto trains

Mainly InterCity/EuroCity services to Innsbruck, Salzburg and Vienna in Austria, Italy and South-eastern Europe depart from this station. Sometimes ICE services to Vienna and Innsbruck stop here.

There are regional services departing from this station to many destination in Chiemgau and Alpenvorland

[edit] S-Bahn

The Ostbahnhof (the name of the S-Bahn part of the station) was refurbished under the Takt 10 project. As an endpoint of the backbone tunnel of Munichs S-Bahn system all lines pass through the station, except S 20, S27 and the A-Line. Lines S2, S4 and S8 continue via platform 5 further east. The lines S5 and S6 turn around amd continue further south to Giesing The lines S1 and S7 terminate at the platforms 4 and 5. The trains to the tunnel depart from platforms 1-3.

[edit] U-Bahn

Since 1988 there is a U-Bahn service to Ostbahnhof by the line U5. It continues south to Neuperlach Süd via Innsbrucker Ring and east to Laimer Platz via Max-Weber-Platz, Hauptbahnhof and Theresienwiese. The line services the station every ten minutes (five in rush-hours).

Previous station	Munich S-Bahn	Next station
München-Rosenheimer Platz toward Freising or Airport	S1	Terminus
München-Rosenheimer Platz toward Petershausen	S2	München-Leuchtenberg-ring toward Erding
München-Rosenheimer Platz toward Mammendorf	S4	München-Leuchtenberg-ring toward Ebersberg
München-Rosenheimer Platz toward Herrsching	S5	München-St.-Martin-Straße toward Holzkirchen
München-Rosenheimer Platz toward Tutzing	S6	München-St.-Martin-Straße toward Kreuzstraße
München-Rosenheimer Platz toward Wolfratshausen	S7	Terminus
München-Rosenheimer Platz toward Geltendorf	S8	München-Leuchtenberg-ring toward Airport
Previous station	U-Bahn	Next station
Max-Weber-Platz toward Laimer Platz	U5	Innsbrucker Ring toward Neuperlach Süd