Classic route
Munich–Simbach railway
Simbach am Inn → Munich · Germany
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Opened on 1 May 1871 east from Munich through Markt Schwaben and Dorfen to Mühldorf and the Inn at Simbach — one of Germany's identified capacity bottlenecks.
Stations
- 0 kmSimbach (Inn)
- 5 kmJulbach
- 13 kmMarktl
- 26 kmNeuötting
- 33 kmTöging (Inn)
- 39 kmMühldorf (Oberbay)
- 67 kmDorfen Bahnhof
- 113 kmMünchen Ost
The stations OpenStreetMap lists for this service, in order, with the distance along the line as drawn here. A train may skip some of them.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 19345297 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 3 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of EC 1218
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
- See for yourself: open this line on the map with OpenStreetMap's own railway drawn underneath it
Questions and answers
How long is the Munich–Simbach railway?
The Munich–Simbach railway runs 113 km from Simbach am Inn to Munich.
How long does the Munich–Simbach railway take?
The fastest scheduled journey is ≈ 1 h 30 min for the 113 km. That is an average of 75 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 130 km/h.
Who runs the Munich–Simbach railway?
DB, with EuroCity.
How old is the Munich–Simbach railway?
The line has been in service since 1871. That is the year the atlas dates it from: for a modern brand running over an older railway, it is the railway's date, not the brand's.
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