The ''Tegernsee station'' (Tegernsee Bf) is the

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of the town of Tegernsee in the district of

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, Upper Bavaria. It is the terminus of the railroad line coming from Schaftlach. Tegernsee station was built as part of the extension of the railroad line from Gmund station and was ceremonially opened on May 1, 1902.

Facilities

The station has a side platform, accommodating track 1 and, as a

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, the stub track (originally track 5 with freight station, track 2), and an island platform between tracks 1 and 12, the original track 2. The third track is used for transferring locomotive-hauled trains and leads to a

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(originally with a loading ramp with freight shed for freight cars). In addition, the railroad facilities include a railcar shed and, opposite, a two-stand locomotive shed with

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and workshop.

History

Until 11 October 1998, the station also had a wagon weighbridge at the end of the siding (track 14) and another siding between it and the locomotive shed. Until 2013, the station consisted of the still existing building consisting of waiting hall, ticket office and lever frame (no longer in operation), the now demolished building for service apartments and the one-story connecting piece of restaurant and toilets. Instead of the demolished toilets sanitary facilities were created on the first floor of the service building in the area of the waiting hall.Tegernseer Bahnhof: Nebengebäude wird abgerissen
/ref> The owner is the 1983 from the TAG spun off Tegernsee-Bahn Betriebsgesellschaft, which since 2012 is owned by the municipalities of Tegernsee, Gmund and the district of

Traffic

Until 1998, Tegernsee station has been served by trains of the Tegernsee-Bahn Betriebsgesellschaft, which still operates the infrastructure with the stations of Gmund and Tegernsee. Through coaches from Munich and partly further to Dortmund were taken over at the station Schaftlach. Today, trains of the Bayerische Oberlandbahn stop every hour, running from Munich via Holzkirchen and Schaftlach to Tegernsee. Since 2020, the trains are operated with railcars of the type

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Gallery

File:BLVSept2007 07.jpg, View of station File:Tegernsee Bahnhof - Bahnsteig komplett.jpg, View of station building and platform File:Tegernsee, Bahnhof 1.jpeg, Building for service apartments (demolished in 2013) File:BOB by Niederkasseler 2013 - panoramio.jpg, View of the connecting building (demolished in 2013) File:Tegernsee Bahnhof - kl. mechanisches Stellwerk.jpg, Lever frame File:Bayern - Bahnhof Tegernsee by Niederkasseler - panoramio.jpg, View of freight station File:BLV Tegernsee Einfahrt.jpg, Railcar shed File:MaKG1203BB.jpg, TAG 14 File:TAG 7 Tegernsee Bf 1996 7.jpg,

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in operation File:BLV Tegernsee Lokschuppen.jpg, locomotive shed File:TAG 7 Tegernsee Bf 1996 1.jpg,

in operation

References

{{Reflist Railway stations in Bavaria Railway stations in Germany opened in 1902