northwichcat
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I was surprised at how poor the situation was at Munich Airport when I visited a couple of years ago, especially considering how expensive transport is in Munich compared to Berlin which has the Regional services to Berlin city centre and beyond but I was told there were plans to build a regional line. The Germans aren't as fast as delivering infrastructure schemes as we might think - when is Brandenburg International Airport opening again?
However, if we're comparing UK Airport stations to German ones what proportion of UK ones have regional rail links compared to Germany?
Is this always true? Of the four German airports that I am most familiar with, Köln-Bonn, Hamburg, Frankfurt and München, only Frankfurt and Köln-Bonn have IC/ICE and Regionalbahn connections as well as S-Bahn links. Hamburg has both S-Bahn and U-Bahn connections and München only the S-Bahn, but over two different routes.
There are a lot of plans to improve the regional rail links into the Münchener Flughafen, but as far as I know none of them have yet been completed.
And when I was sitting in an S-Bahn late on a Sunday evening trying to get back to my flat near Pasing from München Flughafen for work on Monday morning, the attractions of a HEx type service over an all-stations S-Bahn seemed very pronounced. The S-Bahn journey time was three quarters of the flight time from Heathrow...for only 20 miles.![]()
I was surprised at how poor the situation was at Munich Airport when I visited a couple of years ago, especially considering how expensive transport is in Munich compared to Berlin which has the Regional services to Berlin city centre and beyond but I was told there were plans to build a regional line. The Germans aren't as fast as delivering infrastructure schemes as we might think - when is Brandenburg International Airport opening again?
However, if we're comparing UK Airport stations to German ones what proportion of UK ones have regional rail links compared to Germany?
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