Munich-Moosach station is a station in the
Moosach district of
Munich, the capital of the German state of
Bavaria. It consists of an above-ground station for regional and
Munich S-Bahn services and an underground station for the
Munich U-Bahn.
S-Bahn station
Moosach Station is located on the
Munich–Regensburg railway. A single track branch connects to the
Munich North Ring
Munich North Ring (german: Münchner Nordring), section of which are only used by freight trains, is a railway bypass on the northern edge of the Bavarian state capital of Munich. The line’s importance for freight also partly arises from its acc ...
, which leads to the Munich North marshalling yard.
On 3 November 1858, the
Royal Bavarian Eastern Railway Company The Royal Bavarian Eastern Railway Company (''Königlich privilegirte Actiengesellschaft der bayerischen Ostbahnen'') or Bavarian Ostbahn was founded in 1856. Within just two decades it built an extensive railway network in the eastern Bavarian prov ...
opened the line between
Munich and
Landshut
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. A year later, the line was extended to
Regensburg
Regensburg or is a city in eastern Bavaria, at the confluence of the Danube, Naab and Regen rivers. It is capital of the Upper Palatinate subregion of the state in the south of Germany. With more than 150,000 inhabitants, Regensburg is the f ...
. No train station was built in the then independent municipality of Moosach. On 28 September 1892, the line, which previously ran along the route of
Landshuter Allee, was relocated to run to the east of the
Nymphenburg Park
The Nymphenburg Palace Park ranks among the finest and most important examples of garden design in Germany. In combination with the palace buildings, the ''Grand circle'' entrance structures and the expansive park landscape form the ensemble of th ...
through Moosach and south to
München-Laim. The line was built as double-track and a new station was established in Moosach. After the incorporation of Moosach in Munich in 1913, Moosach station was renamed as Munich-Moosach. On 28 September 1925, Munich-Moosach station was electrified with the line from Munich to
Freising. From 10 May 1927, electric locomotives could run on the entire line to Regensburg. In 1944, the station was served by 31 local trains from Munich to Freising, Landshut and Regensburg each day. By 1972, the station facilities were rebuilt for operations of the S-Bahn, including, inter alia, the raising of platforms to a height of 76 centimetres. Since 1970, the operation of the trackwork has been controlled by a Siemens class 60 (SP Dr S60)
track plan push button interlocking. Since the opening of the S-Bahn network in 1972, the station has been served at 20-minute intervals by the S-Bahn
line S 1; local services also continue to stop at the station in the peak hour.
There are three platform tracks at Moosach station. Track 5 is used by line S 1 of the Munich S-Bahn and some
Regionalbahn services towards Munich. Track 4 is used by the S 1 services to
Freising/
the Airport
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and Regionalbahn services towards Freising and beyond.
and ''
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'' trains pass through the station without stopping. Platform 3 serves as an alternative platform when required. Track 1 and 2 do not have platforms and are used by freight trains to connect with the North Ring. The platform on tracks 3 and 4 is 350 metres long and 76 cm high, and the platform on track 5 is 400 metres long and is 76 cm high.
U-Bahn station
Construction of the U-Bahn line from
Olympia-Einkaufszentrum to Moosach station commenced on 7 October 2004. The U-Bahn station was built with a
station box excavated from the surface using
diaphragm walls
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and a tunnel built with a
tunnelling shield
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.
The station has no pillars and is illuminated by natural light through skylights and by individual lights on the ceiling. It was opened on 11 December 2010 and currently forms the terminus of line.
The walls at the back of the track are made of white panels on which large-scale images of different plants and animals are attached. This artistic design was produced by the Munich-based artist Martin Fengel who has included all the motifs of Moosach. The height of the platform walls is 7.80 metres.
Trams and buses
Moosach Station is the terminus of tram lines and . On both sides of the station there are stops for several bus routes, including Metrobus route 51.
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References
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Railway stations in Germany opened in 1892
Railway stations in Germany opened in 2010