The S1 is a service 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 ...

network. It is operated by

DB Regio DB Regio AG is a subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn which operates regional and commuter train services in Germany. DB Regio AG, headquartered in Frankfurt am Main. It is a 100% subsidiary of the Deutsche Bahn Group and there part of the DB Regio bu ...

Bayern. It runs from Munich Airport station and

Freising Freising () is a university town in Bavaria, Germany, and the capital of the Freising ''Landkreis'' (district), with a population of about 50,000. Location Freising is the oldest town between Regensburg and Bolzano, and is located on the ...

Neufahrn bei Freising station Neufahrn (b Freising) station is located in the town of Neufahrn bei Freising in the German state of Bavaria and is served by the Munich S-Bahn. The station is on the Munich–Regensburg railway and is served by . North of the station, a link ...

, where most trains are coupled (and uncoupled in the opposite direction). Trains continue via Feldmoching,

Laim Laim (Central Bavarian: ''Loam'') is a district of Munich, Germany, forming the 25th borough of the city. Inhabitants: c. 49.000 (2005) History Originally its own independent locality, Laim was in existence before Munich. It was first documente ...

, central Munich to Munich East. The service is operated at 20-minute intervals between Munich Airport station and East Munich. Two out of three trains per hour continue from ''Neufahrn bei Freising'' to ''Freising'', so that the headway between trains alternates between 20 and 40 minutes. It is operated using class 423 four-car electric multiple units, usually as two coupled sets. In the evenings and on Sundays they generally run as single sets. The service runs over lines built at various times: *from Munich Airport to Neufahrn bei Freising over the

Neufahrn Link The Neufahrn Link (german: Neufahrner Spange) is a double-track and electrified main line in the German state of Bavaria. It connects Neufahrn bei Freising station on the Munich–Regensburg railway with Munich Airport. Route The line branches ...

, opened by

Deutsche Bahn The (; abbreviated as DB or DB AG) is the national railway company of Germany. Headquartered in the Bahntower in Berlin, it is a joint-stock company ( AG). The Federal Republic of Germany is its single shareholder. describes itself as the ...

on 29 November 1998 *from Freising to Laim over the

Munich–Regensburg railway The Munich–Regensburg railway is a double track, electrified main line railway, linking Munich and Regensburg in the German state of Bavaria, with a total length of 138.1 km. It was opened in 1858 and 1859 and is one of the oldest railways ...

, opened by 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 ...

on 3 November 1858. The section from Feldmoching to a point to the east of Donnersbergerbrücke was relocated to the west on 28 September 1892. *from Laim 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 ...

(''Hauptbahnhof'') over a section of the S-Bahn trunk line laid parallel to the

Munich–Augsburg railway The Munich–Augsburg line connects Munich and Augsburg in the German state of Bavaria. It was built by the Munich-Augsburg Railway Company and opened in 1840. It was nationalised in 1846 and extended to Ulm in 1854. The line between Augsburg an ...

, 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 Royal ...

on 1 September 1839 *the underground section of the S-Bahn trunk line from the approaches to Munich Central Station to

Munich East station Munich East station (german: Bahnhof München Ost, also called ''München Ostbahnhof'' in regional services) is a railway station in Munich, the state capital of Bavaria, Germany. It opened as Haidhausen station in 1871 on the new Munich–Müh ...

, opened on 1 May 1971 S-Bahn services commenced on 28 May 1972 as between Freising and Kreuzstraße. took over the section from Munich East to Kreuzstraße on 10 June 2001. Services to Munich Airport commenced on 29 November 1998.

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{{Munich transport network Munich S-Bahn lines 1972 establishments in Germany