Ismaning station is a tunnel station on the

Munich S-Bahn The Munich S-Bahn (german: S-Bahn München) is an 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 characteristics of bot ...

in the town of

Ismaning Ismaning is a municipality in Bavaria, Germany, located near Munich. Geography In 2016 it had 16,770 inhabitants. The town is located about seven kilometers northeast of Munich on the right high bank of the Isar River that flows into the Danube ...

in the northeast area of

Munich Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the third-largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Ha ...

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. It is served by line S 8.

History

Until 1992 the former above-ground station was the terminus of the old S 3 line from Nannhofen via Munich-Pasing – Munich Hauptbahnhof –

Munich Ostbahnhof Munich East station (german: Bahnhof München Ost, also called ''München Ostbahnhof'' in regional services) is a railway station in Munich, the state capital of Bavaria, Germany. It opened as Haidhausen station in 1871 on the new Munich– ...

. Originally it was intended to extend the line to the Franz Josef Strauss Airport by running the present-day S 8 above ground through the district. After local protests it was decided to lay the S-Bahn route from the southern edge of the district to Osterfeldstrasse in a tunnel. The tunnel station was built at the same spot as the old station and was opened on 17 May 1992. The delay in constructing the S-Bahn link had no negative impact on the airport, because its construction was postponed by legal disputes. Until 20 November 2005 Ismaning station was, apart from the tunnel station at the airport, the only underground S-Bahn station outside the main S-Bahn line in Munich. Since 21 November 2005

Unterföhring Unterföhring is a municipality in Upper Bavaria. It lies adjacent to the northeast side of Munich, and is one of the nearest suburbs to Munich's central district. History Before the establishment of Munich around 1158, an important crossing ex ...

station has also been underground.

Gallery

File:Ismaning Bahnhofsvorplatz.JPG, Station square in front of the station File:04.12.89 Ismaning 420.106 (6438699641).jpg, München S-Bahn EMU, 420.106 at the terminus station of Ismaning on a cold 4 December 1989. The line now continues further on to München Flughafen

References

Munich S-Bahn stations Railway stations in Bavaria Railway stations in Germany opened in 1909 Railway stations in Germany opened in 1992 Railway stations located underground in Germany {{Bavaria-railstation-stub