Grafing station (german: Grafing Bahnhof, rather than ''Bahnhof Grafing'', because it serves the town but is not located in it) is a station in the
Bavaria
Bavaria ( ; ), officially the Free State of Bavaria (german: Freistaat Bayern, link=no ), is a state in the south-east of Germany. With an area of , Bavaria is the largest German state by land area, comprising roughly a fifth of the total lan ...
n town of
Grafing
Grafing bei München (officially: Grafing b.München) is a town in the district of Ebersberg, Upper Bavaria, Germany.
Geography
Grafing is in the Munich Region, about southeast of the state capital, where the Urtelbach and Wieshamer Bach both e ...
and a station of the
Munich S-Bahn
The Munich S-Bahn (german: S-Bahn München) is an electric rail transit system in Munich, Germany. " S-Bahn" is the German abbreviation for ''Stadtschnellbahn'' (literally, "urban rapid rail"), and the Munich S-Bahn exhibits characteristics of b ...
. There is also the S-Bahn station of ''Grafing Stadt'' ("Grafing town") in central Grafing. The station has six platform tracks and is classified by
Deutsche Bahn as a
category 3 station. It is served daily by about 160 trains, 110 of which are S-Bahn trains. Grafing station is on the
Munich–Rosenheim railway
The Munich–Rosenheim railway is a 65 kilometre-long double-track main line of the German railways. It connects Munich Hauptbahnhof with Rosenheim station, where it connects with the Rosenheim–Salzburg railway, which connects with the line to ...
and is the beginning of the
Grafing–Wasserburg railway
The Grafing–Wasserburg railway is a 29.1 km long, wholly single-track branch line in Upper Bavaria. It was partly built between 1899 and 1905. It is also called the Filzenexpress, which refers to the former raised bog (known in Bavarian lan ...
to
Wasserburg.
Location
The station is in the west of the village of Grafing Bahnhof ("Grafing station"), which is to the west of the town of Grafing. The station building is on the Hauptstraße (main street); in front of the station the streets of Birkenstraße and Brünnsteinstraße branch off the Hauptstraße. To the south, state road 2351 passes under the railway tracks. There is a bus station in front of the station.
History
Grafing station was opened along with the Munich–Rosenheim railway on 15 October 1871. The new line replaced the
Bavarian Maximilian's Railway
The Bavarian Maximilian Railway (German: ''Bayerische Maximiliansbahn'') was as an east–west line built between the Bavarian border with Württemberg at Neu-Ulm in the west via Augsburg, Munich and Rosenheim to the Austrian border at Kufstein a ...
between
Munich
Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the third-largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Ha ...
and
Rosenheim
Rosenheim is a city in Bavaria, Germany. It is an independent city located in the centre of the district of Rosenheim (Upper Bavaria), and is also the seat of its administration. It is located on the west bank of the Inn at the confluence of th ...
and made the detour via
Holzkirchen and the
Mangfall
The Mangfall is a river of Upper Bavaria, Germany. The Mangfall is the outflow of the Tegernsee lake and discharges in Rosenheim from the left into the Inn. It is long.
Towns and villages on the Mangfall
* Gmund am Tegernsee
* Valley
* Weyar ...
valley unnecessary. A
branch line
A branch line is a phrase used in railway terminology to denote a secondary railway line which branches off a more important through route, usually a main line. A very short branch line may be called a spur line.
Industrial spur
An industr ...
from Grafing to
Glonn
Glonn is a market town in the Ebersberg district in Upper Bavaria, Germany, about southeast of Munich.
Geography
The market town of Glonn is a health spa (''Erholungsort''), and the Glonn Valley is ringed by wooded hills, carved by the former ...
was opened on 26 May 1894. This was followed by the opening of another branch line to
Ebersberg
Ebersberg is the seat of the similarly named Ebersberg ''Landkreis'' (district) in the Oberbayern ''Regierungsbezirk'' (administrative region) in Bavaria, southern Germany. The ''Ebersberger Forst'' (forest) is one of Germany’s largest continu ...
on 6 November 1899, which was extended to Wasserburg on 1 October 1903. Passenger services on the Grafing–Glonn line were closed on 31 May 1970 due to declining passenger numbers and freight operations on the line ended on 23 May 1971. The station was integrated in the Munich S-Bahn network on 28 May 1972, the S-Bahn trains run over the Munich–Rosenheim line to Grafing station and then run over the Grafing–Wasserburg line to Ebersberg. The station was upgraded for S-Bahn operations in 1972. Since 1999, services between
Munich East station and Grafing run on the S-Bahn's own tracks, which run parallel to the main line.
Infrastructure
![Grafing Bahnhof Bahnsteige](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/Grafing_Bahnhof_Bahnsteige.jpg)
Grafing station has six tracks on three platforms. Platform track 1 is located next to the station building and is served by the S-Bahn to Munich. The S-Bahn to Ebersberg and trains to Wasserburg stop on track 2. Regional trains on the Munich–Rosenheim line towards Munich stop on track 3. Trains towards Rosenheim stop on track 5. Track 4 and the bay platform 11 (which is attached to platform 1) are no longer used in scheduled operations. All platforms are covered, and have digital destination displays. The platforms are connected by a tunnel to platform 1. Platform 1 and the first island platform are equipped with lifts, and have barrier-free access for the disabled; the second island platform (tracks 4 and 5) do not have barrier-free access. The entrance building has a travel centre, which is accessible from the side of platform 1. The main hall of the station building is no longer open to the public.
Platform lengths and heights are as follows:
*Track 11: Length 146 m, height 76 cm
*Track 1: length 221 m, height 96 cm
*Track 2: length 334 m, height 96 cm
*Track 3: length 334 m, height 76 cm
*Track 4: length 360 m, height 76 cm
*Track 5: length 360 m, height 76 cm
Rail services
![Grafing Bahnhof S-Bahn](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f5/Grafing_Bahnhof_S-Bahn.JPG)
Grafing station is served every hour by a
Regional-Express
In Germany, Luxembourg and Austria, the Regional-Express (RE, or in Austria: REX) is a type of regional train. It is similar to a semi-fast train, with average speed at about 70–90 km/h (top speed often 160 km/h) as it calls at ...
service (RE5) between
Munich
Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the third-largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Ha ...
and
Salzburg
Salzburg (, ; literally "Salt-Castle"; bar, Soizbuag, label= Austro-Bavarian) is the fourth-largest city in Austria. In 2020, it had a population of 156,872.
The town is on the site of the Roman settlement of ''Iuvavum''. Salzburg was founded ...
operated by the
Bayerische Oberlandbahn
The Bayerische Oberlandbahn GmbH (BOB) is a private railway company based in Holzkirchen, Germany, and owned by Transdev Germany (formerly known as ''Veolia Verkehr''). Since June 2020 its services are operated under the brand Bayerische Regio ...
with
Flirt 3 EMUs. It also operates an hourly
Regionalbahn services (RB54) between Munich,
Rosenheim
Rosenheim is a city in Bavaria, Germany. It is an independent city located in the centre of the district of Rosenheim (Upper Bavaria), and is also the seat of its administration. It is located on the west bank of the Inn at the confluence of th ...
and
Kufstein
Kufstein (; Central Bavarian: ''Kufstoa'') is a town in the Austrian state of Tyrol, the administrative seat of Kufstein District. With a population of about 19,600 it is the second largest Tyrolean town after the state capital Innsbruck. The grea ...
. Regionalbahn services (RB48) operated by
SüdostBayernBahn with
class 628 run hourly between Grafing and Wasserburg. In addition, Munich S-Bahn and service are operated with
class 423 EMUs at 20-minute intervals. All
InterCity
InterCity (commonly abbreviated ''IC'' on timetables and tickets) is the classification applied to certain long-distance passenger train services in Europe. Such trains (in contrast to regional, local, or commuter trains) generally call at m ...
trains pass through the station without stopping.
References
External links
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{{Munich transport network
Munich S-Bahn stations
Railway stations in Germany opened in 1871
Buildings and structures in Ebersberg (district)