S20 (Munich)

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Route of S 20
Stations and transfer opportunities[1]
Legend
Pasing
Heimeranplatz
Mittersendling
Siemenswerke
Solln
Deisenhofen
München Heimeranplatz station

Line S20 is a line on the Munich S-Bahn network. It is operated by DB Regio Bayern. It runs from München-Pasing station to Deisenhofen. It runs on a connecting line from Pasing to München Mittersendling station that has a platform at München Heimeranplatz station, but does not has a platform at München Harras, although the track here lies directly next to the Munich–Holzkirchen line. It is operated hourly from Monday and Friday. It is operated using using class 423 four-car electrical multiple units.

The line runs over lines built at various times:

  • from München-Heimeranplatz station to München Mittersendling station, its track runs parallel with the Munich–Holzkirchen railway, opened from Munich to Grosshesselohe on 24 June 1854 and from Grosshesselohe to Deisenhofen on 31 October 1857 as part of the Bavarian Maximilian's Railway.[3] At München Mittersendling station, it merges with the Munich–Holzkirchen line and continues to Deisenhofen. The Munich–Holzkirchen line was electrified from Munich to Grosshesselohe on 27 September 1957[4] and from Grosshesselohe to Deisenhofen in 1968.

S-Bahn services commenced on 28 May 1972 as S-Bahn line S12.

Notes

  1. Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 edition ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. pp. 107, 165. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0. 
  2. Wolfgang Klee (1994). Bayerische Eisenbahngeschichte - part 1: 1835-1875, Bayern Report 1 (in German). Fürstenfeldbruck: Hermann Merker Verlag. 
  3. Foit, Wolfgang, ed. (2007). Als die Eisenbahn in unsere Heimat kam. Die Geschichte der Maximiliansbahn München–Holzkirchen–Rosenheim (When the railway came into our home. The story of Maximilian’s Railway, Munich-Holzkirchen-Rosenheim) (in German). Holzkirchen. 
  4. Claus-Jürgen Schulze (1978). Die Isartalbahn (in German). Munich: Bufe-Fachbuchverlag. p. 13 and 14. ISBN 3-922138-04-7. 
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