Line S8 is a line on the Munich S-Bahn network. It is operated by DB Regio Bayern. It runs from Herrsching via Weßling, Pasing, central Munich and Munich East to Munich Airport station.

The line operates at 20-minute intervals between Weßling and Munich Airport. Two out of three trains an hour continue from Weßling to Herrsching, 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 line runs over sections built at various times: from Herrsching to Pasing over the Munich–Herrsching railway, opened on 1 July 1903 by the Royal Bavarian State Railways from Pasing to the beginning of the S-Bahn trunk line over tracks running parallel to the Munich–Augsburg railway, opened by the Munich–Augsburg Railway Company on 1 September 1839 the S-Bahn trunk line from the approaches to Munich Central Station (Hauptbahnhof) to Munich East station, opened on 1 May 1971 from Munich East to Ismaning over the Munich East–Ismaning railway, opened by the Royal Bavarian State Railways. The section through Ismaning was placed underground in 1992 and the section through Unterföhring station in 2005. from Ismaning to Munich Airport over a section of the Munich East–Munich Airport railway opened by Deutsche Bundesbahn in 1992.

S-Bahn services commenced in 1992 as S-Bahn line between Munich Airport and Pasing. It was later merged with line , which had previously run between Nannhofen (now Mammendorf) and Ismaning. Since December 2009, line has run from Pasing to Herrsching instead of Mammendorf, taking over a section of the former line from Herrsching to Ebersberg.

Operation Munich Airport – Herrsching Munich Airport – Weßling Munich East (Ostbahnhof) – Germering-Unterpfaffenhofen/Gilching-Argelsried (Monday to Friday only)

Journey time(in min) Station Transfer MVV tariff zone S-Bahn servicesince Image 1 2 3 Freising district (Landkreis Freising) 0 +2 Munich Airport Terminal 512 635 2 +5 Munich Airport Besucherpark 512 635 7 +7 Hallbergmoos 515 691 692 698 Munich district (Landkreis München) 14 +4 Ismaning X202 230 231 236 531 18 +3 Unterföhring 189 232 233 234 Munich (München) 21 +2 Johanneskirchen 154 23 +2 Englschalking 25 +4 Daglfing 183 188 189 29 +2 Leuchtenbergring 31(+2 min stop) +2 Ostbahnhof X30 145 190 191 213 N43 N44 N45 N74 N75 35 +2 Rosenheimer Platz 37 +1 Isartor 132 38 +2 Marienplatz 132 40 +1 Karlsplatz N40 N41 N45 41 +2 Hauptbahnhof (tief) X98 43 +2 Hackerbrücke 45 +2 Donnersbergerbrücke 153 47 +1 Hirschgarten N43 N44 N78 48 +3 Laim 130 151 168 N78 51(+2 min stop) +2 Pasing 130 159 160 162 265 735 N77 N80 N81 55 +3 Westkreuz N77 58 +1 Neuaubing 267 N80 N81 59 +3 Freiham 143 N80 2013 Fürstenfeldbruck district (Landkreis Fürstenfeldbruck) 62 +2 Harthaus 851 857 64(+1 min stop) +4 Germering-Unterpfaffenhofen X845 260 851 852 853 856 857 858 8500 Starnberg district (Landkreis Starnberg) 69 +3 Geisenbrunn 72 +2 Gilching-Argelsried X900 X920 947 949 8500 74 +3 Neugilching 947 77 +4 Weßling (Oberbay) X910 921 923 928 947 955 81 +5 Steinebach 923 928 86 +5 Seefeld-Hechendorf 820 924 928 950 8400 91 Herrsching 921 928 950 951 9653

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