S8 (Munich)

S8
Overview
Line numberS8
LocaleMunich, Bavaria, Germany
Termini
Stations32
Websitehttps://www.s-bahn-muenchen.de/
Service
SystemMunich S-Bahn
Route number999.8
Operator(s)DB Regio Bayern
Rolling stockDBAG Class 423
Technical
Track gauge1,435 mm (4 ft 8+12 in) standard gauge
Electrification15 kV, 16.7 Hz AC Overhead lines
S8: stations and transfer opportunities
Herrsching
Seefeld-Hechendorf
Steinebach
Weßling
Neugilching
Gilching-Argelsried
Geisenbrunn
Germering-Unterpfaffenhofen
Harthaus
Freiham
Neuaubing
Westkreuz
Pasing
Laim
Hirschgarten
Donnersbergerbrücke
Hackerbrücke
München Hbf
Karlsplatz
Marienplatz
Isartor
Rosenheimer Platz
Munich East
Leuchtenbergring
Daglfing
Englschalking
Johanneskirchen
Unterföhring
Ismaning
Hallbergmoos
Flughafen Besucherpark
Munich Airport
Source: German railway atlas[1]
Daglfing station

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:

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.

  1. ^ Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. pp. 107, 164–7. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
  2. ^ "History of the Pasing-Herrsching branch line" (in German). Wörthsee-Online. Retrieved 19 March 2012.
  3. ^ Wolfgang Klee (1994). Bayerische Eisenbahngeschichte - part 1: 1835-1875, Bayern Report 1 (in German). Fürstenfeldbruck: Hermann Merker Verlag.
  4. ^ Reinhard Pospischil, Ernst Rudolph (1997). S-Bahn München. Düsseldorf: Alba. p. 205. ISBN 3-87094-358-0.
  5. ^ a b "Munich East–Munich Airport railway" (in German). nordostkultur-muenchen.de. Retrieved 19 March 2013.