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.