New timetable: Werdenfelsbahn will be up to 26 minutes slower after reopening
Created: 09/29/2022, 12:35 p.m
There will soon be longer travel times on the Werdenfelsbahn.
If you have an early train from Weilheim, you will soon have to change trains.
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The travel times are available for the reopening of the Werdenfelsbahn.
The trains between Munich and Garmisch-Partenkirchen will be up to 26 minutes slower.
There is also a frequent obligation to switch.
District – It was the pride of the timetable makers that the modern railcars have connected Garmisch-Partenkirchen with Munich in 79 minutes since 2013, despite stopping at all stops along the way.
Additional "express trains" reduced the travel time to 70 minutes, stopping only in Pasing, Weilheim and Murnau.
Things will be different from mid-November: Four to 20 minutes more will be estimated for the railcars, and for the "express trains" - despite the omitted stops - an additional five to 26 minutes will be added to the travel time.
Reopening of the Werdenfelsbahn: longer journey times for “express trains”
The additional minutes are almost always created by driving slowly in the Loisach Valley.
Between Oberau and Eschenlohe in particular, at least eight and a half minutes will be scheduled instead of six: a travel time increase of 40 percent.
Apparently there are still unrefined curves here, which no longer are expected to be fast.
This is surprising, since the local mayors had expressly requested that the route rehabilitation be completed before the reopening.
The planned relaxation of the timetable could actually ensure more punctuality - theoretically.
In practice, the northbound trains between Murnau and Munich should run at high pressure to make up for the extra minutes from the southern section.
When waiting for the opposite trains in Tutzing, the planned reserve time is completely set to zero.
With the foreseeable delays in winter, the S-Bahn change in Tutzing to the north will become a lottery, while to the south there will probably be more crime stories about catching the Ammerseebahn in Weilheim.
Werdenfelsbahn: Longer travel times are not the only annoyance
Users of the Garmisch-Munich main line might now think that slightly longer travel times are their only inconvenience.
But far from it: the express journey from Garmisch-Partenkirchen to Munich from 7.35 a.m. is no longer available during the week.
Particularly violent: the heavily used train from Weilheim should end in Tutzing from 6.47 a.m. as early as October 4th;
where then - at least on the same platform - you have to change trains.
This train will leave Murnau next week at 6.25 a.m. and from mid-November at 5.47 a.m. in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, seven or even twelve minutes earlier than expected.
This shows impressively that the usual times - which should have been valid until December 10, 2022 and beyond - are wasted on the Werdenfelsbahn.
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The users of the Kochelseebahn are already familiar with cutbacks.
A few minutes of travel time have already been added on this route, especially around Penzberg, which makes a half-hourly service almost impossible.
According to the official annual timetable, seven trains to Munich should start between 6 a.m. and 9 a.m. in Penzberg;
only six are currently planned;
thus the departure times also changed.
From October, several of the trains that, thanks to "wings" in Tutzing, guaranteed the direct connection between Kochel and Munich without having to change trains, will be discontinued.
Among other things, the departures from Penzberg from 7.42 a.m. and 8.16 a.m. from October 4 require a change in Tutzing, since the train apparently sees a risk of delay in the "winging".
The more frequent changes in Tutzing is also a return to the "comfort" of 1980.
New travel times Werdenfelsbahn - Kochelseebahn sometimes runs every hour
Most of the half-hourly booster trains in rush-hour traffic have already been shortened, which will remain the case after November 16: the 4 p.m. train from Tutzing does not go to Kochel, but only to Penzberg.
The other cycle compressors from 5 p.m., 6 p.m., 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. do not go to Penzberg, but only to Seeshaupt.
Essentially, apart from the morning rush hour, the Kochelseebahn has been cut back to an hourly service.
From Thursday, October 13th, the trains on the Murnau-Oberammergau line will be back in the timetable with the usual departure times.
Whether the crooked day of the week with the number "13" was deliberately chosen may be a secret of Deutsche Bahn - after all, this connection has been taken off the network at the slightest sniffle and crammed into the bus.
The annual timetable for 2023 is not yet available, but the travel time planning gives the impression of a project that should last longer.
For example, the cancellation of a morning train on the Kochelseebahn is cleverly concealed by shifting the remaining travel times.
Or did the customers think of the fairly distributed gaps?
But this is not always the case when you see that, according to the new concept, the late train from Kochel no longer provides the connection to the Werdenfels train to Munich at midnight in Tutzing of all times - unless you practice the popular passenger sport of sprinting with an uncertain outcome.
By Andreas Bretting
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