The S3 is a service on the Munich S-Bahn network. It is operated by DB Regio Bayern. It runs from Mammendorf station to Holzkirchen station via Pasing, central Munich, Munich East, Giesing and Deisenhofen. Trains reverse in Munich East station and, in order for S-Bahn services from St Martinstraße to be inserted into the S-Bahn line while simultaneously reversing to run into the S-Bahn tunnel under central Munich or vice versa, the line between Munich East station and the flying junction between München-Giesing and Fasangarten stations is one of the few in Germany that has traffic running on the left.

S3
Overview
Service typeMunich S-Bahn
LocaleMunich, Bavaria, Germany
Current operator(s)S-Bahn Munich
Technical
Rolling stockDBAG Class 423
Electrification15 kV, 16.7 Hz AC Overhead lines
Timetable number(s)999.3
S3: stations and transfer opportunities
Mammendorf
Malching
Maisach
Gernlinden
Esting
Olching
Gröbenzell
Lochhausen
Langwied
Pasing
Laim
Hirschgarten
Donnersbergerbrücke
Hackerbrücke
München Hbf
Karlsplatz
Marienplatz
Isartor
Rosenheimer Platz
Munich East
St.-Martin-Straße
Giesing
Fasangarten
Fasanenpark
Unterhaching
Taufkirchen
Furth (b Deisenhofen)
Deisenhofen
Sauerlach
Otterfing
Holzkirchen
Source: German railway atlas[1]
Deisenhofen station

The service is operated at 20-minute intervals between Maisach and Deisenhofen. Two out of three trains an hour continue from Maisach to Mammendorf and from Deisenhofen to Holzkirchen, so that the gap between trains alternates between 20 and 40 minutes. It is operated using class 423 four-car electrical multiple units, usually as two coupled sets. In the evenings and on Sundays they generally run as single sets.

The service uses several railway lines built at various times:

The S3 was introduced on 28 May 1972 and ran between Mammendorf (then called Nannhofen) and Ismaning. At the same the S2 began operating between Petershausen and Deisenhofen. This service was extended to Holzkirchen in 1975. Since December 2009 the S3 runs between Mammendorf and Holzkirchen.

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  1. ^ Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. pp. 107, 164–7. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
  2. ^ Wolfgang Klee (1994). Bayerische Eisenbahngeschichte - part 1: 1835-1875, Bayern Report 1 (in German). Fürstenfeldbruck: Hermann Merker Verlag.
  3. ^ Reinhard Pospischil, Ernst Rudolph (1997). S-Bahn München. Düsseldorf: Alba. p. 205. ISBN 3-87094-358-0.
  4. ^ "History of the railway" (PDF; 34 kB) (in German). Aying municipality. Retrieved 14 March 2013.
  5. ^ "Geschichte der Erschließung" (in German). Mangfalltal-Bahn. Retrieved 24 March 2013.
  6. ^ "150 Jahre Maximiliansbahn München–Holzkirchen–Rosenheim — Festprogramm vom Freitag 25.Mai bis Montag 28.Mai 2007" (in German). www.ganz-muenchen.de. Retrieved 24 March 2013.
  7. ^ "Geschichte der Bahnstrecke" (in German). www.hpw-modellbahn.de. Archived from the original on 14 May 2010. Retrieved 24 March 2013.