Munich Laim station

Munich-Laim station is a station on the trunk line of the Munich S-Bahn between Munich Central Station (German: Hauptbahnhof) and München-Pasing station. It is part of a large rail precinct, including Munich Laim marshalling yard. It has three platform tracks and is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 3 station.[1]

München-Laim
Through station
2012
Location	Wotanstr. 3, Munich, Bavaria Germany
Coordinates	48°08′40″N 11°30′12″E
Owned by	DB Netz
Operated by	DB Station&Service
Line(s)	S-Bahn trunk line (KBS 999)
Platforms	1 island platform 1 side platform
Tracks	3
Train operators	S-Bahn München
Connections	51 130 151 168
Other information
Station code	4258[1]
DS100 code	ML[2]
IBNR	8004151
Category	3[1]
Fare zone	: M[3]
Website	stationsdatenbank.de www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	1972
Passengers
35,200 daily[4]
Services
Preceding station   Munich S-Bahn   Following station München-Moosach toward Freising or Airport München Hirschgarten toward Leuchtenbergring München-Obermenzing toward Petershausen or Altomünster München Hirschgarten toward Erding München-Pasing toward Mammendorf München Hirschgarten toward Holzkirchen München-Pasing toward Geltendorf München Hirschgarten toward Ebersberg München-Pasing toward Tutzing München Hirschgarten toward Ebersberg München-Pasing toward Herrsching München Hirschgarten toward Airport
Location
Laim Location in Bavaria Laim Location in Germany Laim Location in Europe

Munich Airport S-Bahn service
Munich Airport Besucherpark Freising Erding Markt Schwaben Neufahrn Munich East Marienplatz City Centre Karlsplatz (Stachus) Munich Central Laim Munich Pasing

Operations

S-Bahn

S-Bahn lines S 1 to Freising or the Airport and S 2 to Dachau or Petershausen separate from lines S 3, S 4, S 6 and S 8 to Pasing at this station.[5]

Platform 1 is used by S-Bahn trains heading out of the city. A few metres from the platform, the track carrying lines S 3, S 4, S 6 and S 8 branches to the right away from the track carrying lines S 1 and S 2 and then crosses over it on a flyover. The nearest stations in this direction are Pasing, Obermenzing and Moosach. It is possible to transfer to regional and long-distance services in Pasing. Platform track 2 is used by S-Bahn trains heading into city on lines S1 and S2. Platform track 3 is used by S-Bahn services heading into city from Pasing. The next stop into the city is Hirschgarten.

The S-Bahn running between Pasing and Deisenhofen does not stop at Laim station, but runs south of it on the track to/from Solln.

Wotanstraße passes under the station through the Laim underpass, which has a maximum headroom of 3.20 m. Bus routes 51, 151 and 168 pass through the underpass. In the medium to long term, it is proposed that a tram line will be built here. South of the Laim underpass there is a bus stop served by routes 51, 131, 151 and 168. At night this is served by night bus N48.

The reconstruction of the whole area has been planned for some time. As part of this, Laim station is to be expanded to four tracks so that there will be a separate track for S-Bahn lines to the north (S1, S2), allowing them to be kept separate from the lines to Pasing (S3, S4, S6, S8) in both directions.

It is proposed to build a side tunnel for the bus route and to convert the central tunnel for tram line .

As part of the plan for a second S-Bahn trunk line some tracks will be rebuilt at the station.

S-Bahn services

Freight

Previously München-Laim marshalling yard (Rangierbahnhof) was along with Munich East marshalling yard one of Munich's two marshalling yards. With the commissioning of the new Munich North marshalling yards, the station's marshalling yard lost its purpose, as wagons were now handling at the new facility. As Deutsche Bahn required additional storage space for Intercity-Express trains, parts of the old rail yard were rebuilt and modernised. The trains enter these storage sidings via a connecting track from the Munich Hauptbahnhof depot.

Through freight trains from Pasing, Ingolstadt and Landshut also pass Laim station before they run via Munich South towards Rosenheim and Austria.

Interlockings

Rail operations in the Laim station precinct are handled from different signal boxes:

• The S-Bahn tracks to Donnersbergerbrücke are handled by the electronic interlocking at DB Netz‘s operations centre in Munich.
• The modernised tracks of the ICE depot are controlled by the dispatcher in the depot.
• The tracks of the former marshalling yard have been controlled since December 2008 by the electronic interlocking at the yard, which is also connected to the Munich operation centre. The track plan interlocking of 1951 and two mechanical interlocking of 1900 (signal box 3) and 1894 (signal box 1) were taken out of service at the same time. Since the commissioning of the Moosburg/Isar electronic interlocking and the related closure of signal boxes in the Langenbach (Oberbayern) station, signal box 2 in Laim yard has been Bavaria's oldest signal box that can be used to control signalling directly.

Gallery

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  The station hall
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  Class 423 on line S2 in München-Laim station
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  Pedestrian bridge over the freight tracks in Laim

Notes

1. "Stationspreisliste 2021" [Station price list 2021] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 16 November 2020. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
2. Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
3. "S-Bahn, U-Bahn, Regionalzug, Tram und ExpressBus im MVV" (PDF). Münchner Verkehrs- und Tarifverbund. December 2019. Retrieved 28 February 2020.
4. MVV travel survey 2007/2008
5. "Map of the station area, showing the S-Bahn station and bus stops" (PDF) (in German). MVV. Retrieved 20 March 2013.

References

• Peter Lisson, ed. (1991). Drehscheibe des Südens. Eisenbahnknoten München (in German). Darmstadt: Hestra-Verlag. ISBN 3-7771-0236-9.
• Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.

External links

• "Munich S-Bahn/U-Bahn line map" (PDF). MVV. Archived from the original (PDF-file; 221 kB) on 5 September 2012. Retrieved 17 March 2013.