Munich Airport: Coming express S-Bahn and ICE train station?
Free State with a new plan
Created: 05/11/2022, 05:00
By: Dirk Walter
Long-term goal: ICE trains should go directly to Munich Airport.
A separate long-distance train station is necessary for this.
© Carsten Koall / dpa
Could there soon be new train connections to Munich Airport?
The Free State is presenting a four-stage expansion in the state parliament.
This even provides for an ICE train station.
Munich – The plans for an expansion of the rail connection to the airport are becoming more concrete.
On Tuesday, a four-stage concept "for the national rail transport connection to Munich Airport" is to be presented in the state parliament.
The paper, which is available to
merkur.de
, envisages the construction of a long-distance train station at the airport and a pivoting of the Munich-Nuremberg ICE line “via Neufahrn with the airport connection” in the final phase.
Munich Airport: Free State proposes express S-Bahn and new ICE train station
However, there is no timetable, and costs are not mentioned either.
That should provide a topic of conversation among the MPs on Tuesday in the transport committee of the state parliament.
In principle, Frank Kutzner, head of the railway expansion department in the Bavarian Ministry of Transport, attests that the airport has a good modal split value: a third of all passengers and employees arrive at the airport by rail.
However, the share could be increased by 100 percent in some cases with an expansion.
In stage 1, the national Airport Express (ÜFEX), which ends today in Regensburg, would be extended to Nuremberg.
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Express S-Bahn reaches the airport in 25 minutes
Extensive expansions are already necessary for stage 2, the start of a regional S-Bahn from Ulm/Augsburg to the airport: in addition to the completion of the second main line, the construction of the Erdinger Ringschluss and two Mammendorf-Malching tracks as well as the controversial expansion of the S -Railway Daglfing-Johanneskirchen.
The express S-Bahn could then reach the airport from the main train station in 25 minutes;
today it is 40 minutes by S-Bahn.
Stage 3 of the concept envisages further expensive expansions in order to realize long-distance connections such as Innsbruck-Rosenheim-Airport, Memmingen-Airport or an express S-Bahn Herrsching-Airport.
In the final phase (Stage 4), Vienna-Munich via the airport would also be conceivable.
According to the concept, however, another long-distance train station would have to be built next to the current airport S-Bahn station.
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