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Munich’s New Electronic Signals Centre at Ostbahnhof Begins Operations

The long-delayed facility is designed to improve punctuality on the S-Bahn’s core route.

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Overview

  • After a two-year delay, the München Ost electronic signalling centre has gone live, taking over signals and switches on the S-Bahn’s first trunk line.
  • It replaces a 1971 relay system that Deutsche Bahn says was responsible for about 15 percent of network delays.
  • A second electronic centre at Leuchtenbergring also entered service to control the stretch toward Berg am Laim and support the future second trunk line.
  • Operations are managed remotely from the Donnersbergerbrücke control centre, where dispatchers now oversee roughly 150 signals, 60 switches and five heater units.
  • Deutsche Bahn expects improved punctuality, though transit experts caution that single-track segments and other infrastructure constraints will still cause disruptions.