Groundbreaking for ambitious railway project: "We connect Erding with New York"

Created: 07/11/2022, 22:01

By: Dirk Walter

Piece by piece: The Erdinger ring closure is now in the second construction phase.

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The milestone phrase was used suspiciously often on Monday at a construction site east of the airport: the train is extending the S-Bahn tracks to Schwaigerloh.

At some point they should lead to Erding - the rail line is part of the Erding ring circuit.

BY DIRK WALTER

Schwaigerloh –

The first real winner of this construction project had no right to speak: Bernhard Mücke, Mayor of Oberding, quietly enjoyed the groundbreaking ceremony on Monday that his community will soon have an S-Bahn station.

The Schwaigerloh S-Bahn station, a district of the 6,600-inhabitant municipality of Oberding, borders on a large commercial area.

Barrier-free, 210-meter-long outside platforms and a multi-storey car park, possibly even combined with a bus station - Mücke is in a good mood.

"We are well positioned."

The railway station is scheduled to go into operation at the end of 2025.

Then at least Oberding will have an S-Bahn connection to the airport.

The new station, the 151st in the Munich S-Bahn network, is more of a by-product of a much more far-reaching project: the Erdinger ring closure.

A direct S-Bahn connection between Freising, the airport and Erding could be established by the early 2030s.

A tunnel is already finished in shell construction

Step by step, the railway is approaching this project, which was once classified as utopian.

The first step was the Neufahrner curve, the junction from the airport to Freising.

The second step followed in September 2021, when the shell of the railway tunnel under the airport was completed.

Now comes part three: The railways then want to build two two-kilometer-long sections of track to Schwaigerloh at the tunnel.

A siding and turning facility with four tracks is also to be built there.

That means: The S-Bahn and the Airport Express from Regensburg then go to Schwaigerloh and are parked there until the return trip.

The first preparatory work for the track construction has already been completed: the railway has cleared a small forest and cut a path for the track construction.

Crowd at the groundbreaking

In the distance you can already see excavators and milling machines that are removing the topsoil from the construction site area - the future S-Bahn will run through farmland.

Lots of people at the groundbreaking (from left): 3. District Administrator Rainer Mehringer, Berthold Huber (Deutsche Bahn), State Secretary Michael Theurer, Minister of Transport Christian Bernreiter, Head of State Chancellery Florian Herrmann, as well as Airport Manager Jost Lammers and Klaus-Dieter Josel (DB), who are breaking a spade had to share.

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At the groundbreaking ceremony, it became clear how many fathers the project has: In addition to the State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Transport, Michael Theurer (FDP), and DB Infrastructure Board Member Berthold Huber, Bavaria's Transport Minister Christian Bernreiter (CSU) also came (among others).

He spoke of a "joint project" by the federal government, the Free State and Deutsche Bahn.

Everyone pays a share of the almost 100 million euros in construction costs, with the federal government paying the most at 57 million euros.

Part four will be even more expensive: the continuation of the route from Schwaigerloh to Erding - according to the latest estimates 390 million euros expensive, but probably a lot more.

Among other things, a two-kilometer tunnel has to be dug in the urban area of ​​Erding, and Erding's station will be completely rebuilt at a different location (on the site of the former air base).

As part five, the single-track Walpertskirchener Spange has to be built, which is to run from Erding to the Munich–Mühldorf railway line.

Only then can the people of Erding take the S-Bahn to the airport and then what airport boss Jost Lammers praised as a vision at the groundbreaking ceremony will come true: "We will connect Erding with New York and Freilassing with Taipei."

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