Munich — when will the new South Station appear? This question is currently being asked in Sendling. For now, it is only vaguely reported that in the coming years, a new stopping point for regional trains heading towards Rosenheim and Mühldorf should be created in the area of Lindwurmstraße and Poccistraße.
Munich South Station will be completed only in the 2030s — since 1985 it has been used exclusively for freight
A brief excursion into history: the station on the line between the Main Station and the East Station, which in 1871 was called Thalkirchen, was renamed Munich-South five years later. Located in the immediate vicinity of the wholesale market and the slaughterhouse, it served primarily to supply the city with food products. After the opening of the Munich S-Bahn and subway network in the early 1970s, passenger traffic, which was never particularly intensive there, lost its significance even more, until in 1985 it was finally discontinued, and Munich-South began to be used only as a freight station.
Forty years later, loading ramps, platforms, and other facilities for car-passenger trains were equipped there, as the corresponding structures at the East Station interfered with the construction of the second main S-Bahn line. After the commissioning of the modern infrastructure for motorail trains in the spring of 2025, the aforementioned stopping point for regional trains running between Laim or the Main Station and the East Station in the direction of Rosenheim and Mühldorf should also be established in the coming years.
Connection possibility to the planned U9 subway line in Munich
This stopping point, with barrier-free access to Lindwurmstraße in the area of the railway bridge passing over it and to the Poccistraße subway station (U3 and U6 lines), will bring benefits not only to commuters and travelers from the eastern part of Upper Bavaria but will also relieve the transport hubs of the Main Station, Marienplatz, and East Station, which are excessively busy during peak hours. In addition, it will provide the possibility of a transfer to the planned U9 subway line, which will run from Dietlindenstraße/Münchner Freiheit via the Main Station and Theresienwiese to Implerstraße.
The implementation of this project, estimated at approximately 96 million euros, involves shifting all railway freight traffic to the Munich Northern Ring. For this, it is necessary to expand the five-kilometer section of track between Daglfing and Johanneskirchen, which is currently only double-track, to four tracks. And this takes time. Thus, even according to optimistic forecasts, the commissioning of the South Ring and with it the new Munich South Station should be expected only in the early 2030s.Source: TZ
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