Munich-Pasing station: conversion for half a billion

Created: 05/13/2022, 12:30 p.m

By: Dirk Walter

Project manager Mathias Beck on the south side of the station.

A new track 1 is to be built where he sits.

© Astrid Schmidhuber

It is considered the hub of the West.

Now the Munich-Pasing train station is to be rebuilt for half a billion euros.

That takes at least ten years.

Munich – With 100,000 passengers a day and 1,000 train stops, Pasing train station is one of the largest rail hubs in Bavaria.

The track is much too narrow.

Both the tracks of the Werdenfelsbahn in the direction of Starnberg/Weilheim, in the direction of Ammersee (Herrsching) and in the direction of Allgäu (Geltendorf/Buchloe) as well as the station itself are overloaded and are considered a bottleneck.

Trains often get stuck, which causes delays.

Now it is to be rebuilt well into the 2030s.

"The conversion of Pasing is a large, central project," says Mathias Beck, project manager for the railway construction in the west of Munich.

As a first project, another 410 meter long platform for regional and long-distance trains is to be built to the north of the current platforms - between tracks 12 and 14 according to internal counting.

Platform 13 will be closed for this.

The platform will be built with all the trappings - elevators, escalators and a roof.

Residents on the north side will receive noise protection for the first time - the railway promises a 1.3 kilometer long, partly transparent noise protection wall.

A new platform on the north side costs 100 million euros

The platform will be accessible via the existing underpasses.

100 million euros have already been approved, in the summer the plan will be approved, 2026 and 2027 should be built, so that the platform - as of now - could go into operation from the end of 2027.

The plans for the renovation of the southern platform on track 2 have not yet progressed that far. The aim is to build a new track 1 south of the platform and to make the platform barrier-free with escalators and elevators, says Beck.

The new track is needed to “equalize” train traffic.

So far, only S20 trains have stopped at platform 2, but in future regional trains from Fürstenfeldbruck/Buchloe will also stop there.

A new siding is also planned, and between Pasing and Leienfelsstraße the Hellensteinstraße level crossing is to be replaced by an underpass.

The third project will be the most difficult: The so-called Westkopf Pasing will be expanded with further underpasses and overpasses without crossings.

That still depends on various imponderables, for example the previously only announced but not yet specifically planned expansion of the S4 route Pasing-Eichenau from two to four tracks.

Here, too, the aim is to minimize train delays.

Beck estimated implementation in the mid-2030s.

Overall, the railway in Pasing will block half a billion euros - the money must be made available primarily by the federal and state governments.