Line S4 is a line on 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 ...
network. It is operated by
DB Regio Bayern. It runs from
Geltendorf station to Ebersberg station via
Pasing
Pasing is a district in the city of Munich, Germany, and part of the borough Pasing-Obermenzing.
Overview
Pasing is located west of the Munich city centre, at the north-western edge of the city's innermost traffic zone. The district is mainly res ...
, central Munich,
Munich East and
Grafing station.
The line is operated at 20-minute intervals between Grafrath or Buchenau and Grafing station. Two out of three trains an hour continue from Buchenau to Geltendorf and from Grafing station to Ebersberg, 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 lines built at various times:
*from Geltendorf to Pasing over the
Munich–Buchloe railway
The Munich–Buchloe railway is a double-track, electrified main line in Bavaria, Germany. The 60 kilometre-long line runs from via and to . Together with the Buchloe–Kempten–Lindau line, it is known as the ''Allgäubahn'' (Allgäu rai ...
, opened by the
Royal Bavarian State Railways on 1 May 1873
*from Pasing to the approaches to
Munich Central Station
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 ...
(''Hauptbahnhof'') over a section of the
S-Bahn trunk line laid parallel to the
Munich–Augsburg railway, opened by the
Munich–Augsburg Railway Company The Munich–Augsburg Railway Company (''München-Augsburger Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft''), the second private railway company in Bavaria, built the Munich–Augsburg line between 1838 and 1840. It was nationalised in 1846 and became part of the Roya ...
from Munich to Pasing on 1 September 1839
*the underground section of the S-Bahn trunk line from the approaches to Munich Central Station to
Munich East station, opened on 1 May 1971
*from Munich East station to Grafing station 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 ...
, opened by the Royal Bavarian State Railways on 15 October 1871 and electrified on 12 April 1927.
*from Grafing station to Ebersberg over the
Grafing–Wasserburg railway, opened by the Royal Bavarian State Railways on 6 November 1899 and electrified in 1969.
S-Bahn services on line S 4 between Geltendorf and Ebersberg commenced on 28 May 1972. For a period up to 2009, the section from Munich East to Ebersberg was operated as the former line S 5.
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Munich S-Bahn lines
1972 establishments in Germany