Garmisch-Partenkirchen station
Garmisch-Partenkirchen station is a junction station in the German State of Bavaria. It is the biggest station in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. It has five platform tracks and is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 3 station.
The station has about 50 services daily operated by DB Regio and some long-distance services operated by Deutsche Bahn. It is on the lines connecting Munich and Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Innsbruck and Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Reutte.
History
The station was established on 25 July 1889 as the terminus of a branch line from Munich opened by Lokalbahn AG. It was initially connected to Munich by four to six pairs of trains daily. On 1 July 1912, was the line was extended with the opening of the Mittenwald Railway and Garmisch-Partenkirchen was now a through station. The line was electrified in the course of the extension of the Mittenwald line to Innsbruck, opened on 25 April 1913. In May 1913, the Ausserfern Railway was opened from Reutte to the station. This was electrified from the start.A special feature for decades was the operational stop for Austrian through trains between Innsbruck and Reutte. This was necessary so that trains could reverse direction in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, but passengers were not allowed on or off, which would have required customs and immigration clearance until the implementation of the Schengen Agreement.
The station was the scene of a severe accident on 12 December 1995, when a departing RegioExpress train smashed into a touristic train due to departing at a red signal, injuring 41 and killing one.
Description
The station lies between the two districts of Garmisch in the west and Partenkirchen in the east. The railway yards are located at Garmisch area. The Partnach flows between the station and Partenkirchen. The station area is bordered to the east by Bahnhofstraße and to the west by Weitfelderstraße and Olympiastraße. Sankt-Martin-Straße passes through an underpass under the station area. The entrance building was modernised and renovated in the late 1990s and it is located on the eastern side of the railway facilities towards Partenkirchen. Its address is 31 Bahnhofstraße.In addition to the home platform, there are two more platforms. Behind it there are five tracks for train parking and freight operations.
The platforms are covered and accessible via lifts and stairways. The platform roofs were renewed from October 2009 to January 2011 and the platforms were fitted with tactile paving. The station building includes shops and a ticket office. It is served by the public bus network.
Rail services
Garmisch-Partenkirchen is served by 2 pairs of Intercity-Express services on Saturday operated by Deutsche Bahn as well as Regionalbahn and peak RegionalExpress services operated by DB Regio towards Mittenwald, Innsbruck, Reutte and Munich. Both types of regional trains are faster between Munich and Garmisch Partenkirchen than the ICE services.| Line | Route | Frequency |
| Hamburg-Altona - Berlin – Lutherstadt Wittenberg - Leipzig – Erfurt – Bamberg – Nuremberg Hbf – Munich – Garmisch-Partenkirchen | One pair of services on Saturday | |
| Dortmund – Essen – Düsseldorf – Cologne – Limburg – Frankfurt – Würzburg – Nuremberg – Munich – Garmisch-Partenkirchen | One pair of services on Saturday | |
| Munich – Tutzing – Weilheim – Murnau – Garmisch-Partenkirchen – Mittenwald | Hourly | |
| Munich – Weilheim – Murnau – Garmisch-Partenkirchen - Mittenwald | Individual services | |
| Garmisch-Partenkirchen – Ehrwald Zugspitzbahn – Reutte in Tirol | Every two hours |
The following local buses and regional bus lines as well as the long-distance FlixBus stop at or near the station:
| Line | Type | Route |
| Local bus | Klinikum – Bahnhof – Marienplatz – Äußere Maximilianstraße | |
| Local bus | Klinikum – Bahnhof – Marienplatz – Kreuzeck | |
| Local bus | Farchant – Friedhof Partenkirchen – Wankbahn – Bahnhof – Marienplatz – Burgrain – Farchant | |
| Local bus | Farchant – Burgrain – Marienplatz – Bahnhof – Wankbahn – Friedhof Partenkirchen – Farchant | |
| 'White-blue bus' | Sebastianskirche – Bahnhof – Marienplatz – Grainau – Eibsee | |
| Regional bus | Garmisch-Partenkirchen Post/Bf – Oberau – Oberammergau ' | |
| Regional bus | Garmisch-Partenkirchen Post/Bf – Mittenwald – Krün – Wallgau ' | |
| long distance bus | Munich Airport – Garmisch-Partenkirchen – Mittenwald - Seefeld - Innsbruck | |
| long distance bus | Garmisch-Partenkirchen – Innsbruck - Bozen - Verona – Venice |