Line S4 is a line on the

Munich S-Bahn The Munich S-Bahn () is an Railway electrification system, electric rail transit system in Munich, Germany. "S-Bahn" is the German abbreviation for ''Stadtschnellbahn'' (literally, "urban rapid rail"), and the Munich S-Bahn exhibits characteris ...

network. It is operated by

DB Regio DB Regio AG () is a subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn which operates regional and commuter train services in Germany. It is a 100% subsidiary of the Deutsche Bahn Group and therefore part of the DB Regio business segment, which also includes DB Regionn ...

Bayern. It runs from

Geltendorf station Geltendorf station is the largest railway station of the town of Geltendorf and is a railway junction in Upper Bavaria, Germany. The railway junction is also a station of the Munich S-Bahn. It has five platforms and is classified by Deutsche Bahn ...

to Ebersberg station via

Pasing Pasing is a district in the city of Munich, Germany, and part of the borough Pasing-Obermenzing. Overview Pasing is located west of the Munich city centre, at the north-western edge of the city's innermost traffic zone. The district is mainly res ...

, central Munich, Munich East and

Grafing station Grafing station (, rather than ''Bahnhof Grafing'', because it serves the town but is not located in it) is a station in the Bavarian town of Grafing and a station of the Munich S-Bahn. There is also the S-Bahn station of ''Grafing Stadt'' ("Gra ...

. The line is operated at 20-minute intervals between Grafrath or Buchenau and Grafing station. Two out of three trains an hour continue from Buchenau to Geltendorf and from Grafing station to Ebersberg, so that the gap between trains alternates between 20 and 40 minutes. It is operated using class 423 four-car electrical multiple units, usually as two coupled sets. In the evenings and on Sundays they generally run as single sets. The line runs over lines built at various times: *from Geltendorf to Pasing over the

Munich–Buchloe railway The Munich–Buchloe railway is a double-track, electrified main line in Bavaria, Germany. The 60 kilometre-long line runs from via and to . Together with the Buchloe–Lindau railway, Buchloe–Kempten–Lindau line, it is known as the '' ...

, opened by the

Royal Bavarian State Railways The Royal Bavarian State Railways (''Königliche Bayerische Staats-Eisenbahnen'' or ''K.Bay.Sts.B.'') was the state railway company for the Kingdom of Bavaria. It was founded in 1844. The organisation grew into the second largest of the German ...

on 1 May 1873 *from Pasing to the approaches to

Munich Central Station Munich is the capital and most populous city of Bavaria, Germany. As of 30 November 2024, its population was 1,604,384, making it the third-largest city in Germany after Berlin and Hamburg. Munich is the largest city in Germany that is no ...

(''Hauptbahnhof'') over a section of the S-Bahn trunk line laid parallel to the

Munich–Augsburg railway The Munich–Augsburg line connects München Hauptbahnhof, Munich and Augsburg Hauptbahnhof, Augsburg in the German state of Bavaria. It was built by the Munich-Augsburg Railway Company and opened in 1840. It was nationalised in 1846 and extended ...

, opened by the

Munich–Augsburg Railway Company The Munich–Augsburg Railway Company (''München-Augsburger Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft''), the second private railway company in Bavaria, built the Munich–Augsburg line between 1838 and 1840. It was nationalised in 1846 and became part of the Royal ...

from Munich to Pasing on 1 September 1839 *the underground section of the S-Bahn trunk line from the approaches to Munich Central Station to

Munich East station Munich East station (, also called ''München Ostbahnhof'' in regional services) is a major railway station in Munich, the capital of Bavaria, Germany. The station opened in 1871 as Haidhausen station on the Munich–Mühldorf and Munich–Ros ...

, opened on 1 May 1971 *from Munich East station to Grafing station on the

Munich–Rosenheim railway The Munich–Rosenheim railway is a 65 kilometre-long double-track main line of the Rail transport in Germany, German railways. It connects Munich Hauptbahnhof with Rosenheim station, where it connects with the Rosenheim–Salzburg railway, which ...

, opened by the Royal Bavarian State Railways on 15 October 1871 and electrified on 12 April 1927. *from Grafing station to Ebersberg over the

Grafing–Wasserburg railway The Grafing–Wasserburg railway is a 29.1 km long, wholly single-track branch line in Upper Bavaria. It was partly built between 1899 and 1905. It is also called the Filzenexpress, which refers to the former raised bog (known in Bavarian lan ...

, opened by the Royal Bavarian State Railways on 6 November 1899 and electrified in 1969. S-Bahn services on line S 4 between Geltendorf and Ebersberg commenced on 28 May 1972. For a period up to 2009, the section from Munich East to Ebersberg was operated as the former line S 5.

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{{Munich transport network Munich S-Bahn lines 1972 establishments in West Germany