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[Mookiemoo]

Well, I've given up squinting at those signs in the picture, trying to work out the German - never mind translate it into English! 

The system, though, is this, I think: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_U-Bahn 

that much I did recognize ! Spent six months flying in and ou!

[Tim]

Correct.  The system is the Munich U-Bahn (underground), which would rule out your earlier answer of Munich Airport for the station, because that is on the S-Bahn (although they are part of the same fare system).

Someone ought to be able to figure the station name out from my earlier clue and the map at http://www.mvv-muenchen.de/web4archiv/objects/download/3/schnellbahnnetz_2009.pdf


 

[Chris from Nailsea]

Oh, I'd already worked that out - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabellapark_(Munich_U-Bahn) - but I was still squinting at those ruddy signs you were asking about ... 

[Tim]

Correct.  It is Arabellapark at the end of the U4 (my clue "ballpark area" being an anagram)

Its just the signs you need to figure out now (which are by no means Unique to that station- I would suspect that they are at every U-Bahn station in the city).  The answer will come from someone who has noticed them in Munich or another German city using them, or from someone thinking laterally and extending from Grahame's very nearly right answer. 

If you could zoom into the sign you might not yet get the answer (depending on your grasp of german).  If you want to cheat and see a closeup at a different station click on http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3057/3046129063_b92dbf7cd0.jpg?v=0

[johoare]

OK I know the answer from your "cheat" because I just googled it.. But I'll see if someone can guess it first without cheating like me...

[Chris from Nailsea]

Ach, so!  Not 'K^ssen', then?  (Just to explain the reasoning behind my previous attempt!) 

[bemmy]

Looks to me like it might say Kurzzug, to tell you where the coaches of a short train will stop?

[johoare]

I think I agree 

[Tim]

correct. 

Trains are of different length.  Either 2 cars (kurzzug "short train"), 4 cars (vollzug "full train") or 6 cars (Langzug - "long train").  The sign marks the part of the platform where a kurzzug will stop.  This is usually nearest the entrance, but at Arabellapark it is the middle of the platform because there is an entrance at both ends.

The platform indicators will tell you the length of the next train.   

The S-Bahn has a similar system but the trains there are 4, 8 or 12 cars long.

[Mookiemoo]

Correct.  It is Arabellapark at the end of the U4 (my clue "ballpark area" being an anagram)

Its just the signs you need to figure out now (which are by no means Unique to that station- I would suspect that they are at every U-Bahn station in the city).  The answer will come from someone who has noticed them in Munich or another German city using them, or from someone thinking laterally and extending from Grahame's very nearly right answer. 

If you could zoom into the sign you might not yet get the answer (depending on your grasp of german).  If you want to cheat and see a closeup at a different station click on http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3057/3046129063_b92dbf7cd0.jpg?v=0

Bollocks!

I used to stay at the Sheraton  hotel in Arabella park so used that ****damn station every mon-fri for six months!

But it was July 07-Dec 07 before I saw came across this sight - ie before the hellish TT change!



Mondays: Flughaven to Leuchtenbergring
Daily - if pissing down - Leuchtenbergring to Arabellapark - if dry - walked it - damn site quicker given the two changes
Friday: Leuchtenbergring to Flughaven

I used to have memorized the german for "the next station is  XXXXX, please alight the train from the left/right hand side"   without knowing what it meant!