The first station, built according to plans designed by Friedrich Bürklein, was inaugurated on 1 May 1871 as part of the newly built railway line to Neuötting via Mühldorf am Inn. The line to Rosenheim opened on 15 October 1871. It was initially named Haidhausen after the eponymous quarter, but it received its present name München Ost on 15 October 1876. The station was given additional significance as a railway hub with the opening of the Munich East–Deisenhofen line in 1898; followed by train connections to Ismaning and Schwabing in 1909, the first to be electrified in 1927.
The station was severely damaged by the bombing of Munich on 24/25 April 1944 and had to be entirely rebuilt after World War II. A provisional counter hall was erected in 1952. A motorail (Autoreisezug) yard opened on 22 June 1959.
In May 1972, shortly before the Summer Olympics, Munich East became part of the Munich S-Bahn network as the eastern terminus of the Stammstrecke to Munich Pasing in the west. The present-day entrance building was erected in 1985. Three years later, in 1988, the station also received access to the Munich U-Bahn network. Further refurbishments of the station building took place in 1999 and in 2008.
Operational usage
The station has 17 tracks.[6] Tracks 1–5 are used by the S-Bahn, tracks 6–8 and 11–14 are used by regional and interregional traffic.
Tracks 9, 10 and 15 are through tracks.
Tracks 16 and 17 are used by Motorail.
The Ostbahnhof (the name of the S-Bahn part of the station) was refurbished under the Takt 10 project. As an endpoint of the backbone tunnel of Munich's S-Bahn system all lines pass through the station, except S20. Lines S2, S4, S6 and S8 continue via platform 5 further east.
The lines S3 and S7 change direction at platform 4 and continue further south to Giesing.
The trains to the tunnel depart from platforms 1-3.
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