The effect of snow on S-Bahn & U-Bahn trains

Since it just started to snow, I was thinking about whether times or schedules would be affected due to heavy snowfall. Obviously for underground trains, that might not be a problem. But when trains in Munich are outside in the open, can there be a danger. Do you guys know anything about this in the past. Were there ever any accidents due to snow. Just wondering.

No.

I can't remember snow ever being a serious problem. Not in Munich, anyway.

Of course DB,MVV and MVG would want you to believe otherwise to cover-up their incompetence...

Better question would be "if a train left munich at 70km per heading east, while another train left St petersburg 15 min. later going 125 km per heading west, what time would I arrive in NYC?"

When I used to live in Oberschleißheim, the SBahns were always late when it snowed. Always... Never heard of any SBahn accidents directly caused by weather/snow etc.

It has been known to affect the S.Bahn and overground U-Bahns in Berlin...

or that was just an excuse

anybody have any problems with the s-bahn this morning?
specially the S1 or S8 to the airport?

FYI, the S5 and S6 (dir South) around 0700 were on time.

Would that be St. Petersburg, Florida, or St. Petersburg, Russia? It might affect the ETA by at least 15min.

Indeed. My S5-Herrsching was 16 minutes late this morning ~0800, causing me to miss my bus so I had to walk 3K to work in this lovely weather.

Anyone know where I can get some good snow boots??

I guess I lucked out then.

There's a particular problem with the S-Bahn. The Achilles heel is Ostbahnhof where it often happens that simply due to low temperatures the ponts freeze up. It's a domino effect that that throws the whole network.

There wasn't enough snow today to cause the points to freeze, besides Ostbahnhof and Hauptbahnhof both have crews of people who's sole job is to clear snow from the points. Most points are heated so snow isn't a big problem. It's the ones that arn't heated and require a human touch that are the problem...

Next time it snows alot and your on a train look out at the points (Switch areas) and you will see that on some there is no snow, and on others there is...

Yesterday - no snow - journey to work 1 hour
Today - a little bit chilly and some snow - journey to work 2 HOURS !!!

W.T.F. is all I can say. Its not like the MVV don't see the stuff on a regulary effing basis.

perhaps it was the wrong type of snow like British Rail suffer from every winter ?

According to DB on the radio today they only had the one serious delay, Herrsching line I think they said.

Anybody know if the trains to Salzburg delayed? Must leave Munich at 1540hrs and get to Bad Reichenhall for 18Uhr. Cant find any info on train delays so just hope and pray as fly from Salzburg at 21Uhr

i just check the db website for you and they are showing some current trains having a 10 minute delay but all trains leaving this afternoon are showing as "pünktlich" which means they don't know yet. Better to check closer to the time.

All I could find is this:

Verkehrsmeldungen

Doesn't say much for today except: there was snow and it could lead to delays. Gee, thanks.

Good luck!

You can be even more safe, if you take the train Sched. just before the one you wanted to take..

The Following Lines are having problems and are running Bus Services for some/most or all parts of the way.

Prien – Aschau
Mühldorf – Garching
Helmbrechts – Münchberg
Zwiesel - Bayerisch Eisenstein

Lines With Problems That "Should" have cleared by now.. Check Info at Hbf..

Cham - Waldmünchen
Plattling – Zwiesel
Zwiesel - Bodenmais via Grafenau

As Always Check at Hbf For Up to date Info.

Just means waiting around for an hour before mi mate gets back from work. Will go early and find a pub open!