Well, Mother’s Day is every year, and the trip doesn’t necessarily have to go to Tegernsee every time. Especially from Munich you could just as easily take the train to, for example, or to something, we were there 20 years ago, that was nice too, or to. Or just to Tegernsee. But not this year! At least not with the Bavarian Regiobahn. She expressly asks that you avoid taking trains to Tegernsee at all costs this year. By the way, during Ascension Day too, but on Father’s Day, many people consider the handcart to be the means of transport of choice, not tied to rails and completely useless in other respects.
The fact that the Bayerische Regiobahn advises against its own offers may have something to do with the last part of its name. Apart from special service providers such as the mountain rescue service or the water rescue service, it seems to be primarily rail transport companies that want to have as few customers as possible. And the Bayerische Regiobahn already had too many customers when it wasn’t even the BRB, but the Bayerische Oberlandbahn or BOB. On busy days like Father’s Day, a BOB ride has always been a suicide mission.
But it’s not all the passengers’ fault. But according to the BRB, this time it is mainly the Tegernseebahn. Since the BOB took over rail operations in the Oberland at the end of the 1990s, the Tegernseebahn has only taken care of its exactly 12.4 kilometers of track between Schaftlach and Tegernsee. And from May 6th to 18th it will do this in the form of construction work that will require the route between Gmund and Tegernsee to be closed.
However, the buses for rail replacement services cannot travel directly the five kilometers to Tegernsee because the Rosenheim road construction authority is closing the B 307 near St. Quirin from May 8th to 12th. That’s why the buses have to travel three times as far around the lake, and because they are regular buses, they stop everywhere – including at the stops and not just in traffic jams.
If you’re thinking about a bike now: always happy, but not to take with you on the rail replacement buses. Otherwise there is only alternative overland transport. A short walk from Gmund train station to Seeglas or Kaltenbrunn and from there the Grand Tour with the Bavarian Lakes Shipping boat ten times a day.