It is part of a large rail precinct, including Munich Laim marshalling yard.

For the introduction of the S-Bahn München, the suburban line to Pasing was connected to the lines to Allach and Moosach, for which the old island platform was replaced by a new one to the east in 1969 and the station was extended by an additional track with a side platform for out-of-town traffic.

As Deutsche Bahn required additional storage space for Intercity-Express trains, parts of the old rail yard were rebuilt and modernised.

The trains enter these storage sidings via a connecting track from the Munich Hauptbahnhof depot.

Through freight trains from Pasing, Ingolstadt and Landshut also pass Laim station before they run via Munich South towards Rosenheim and Austria.

Rail operations in the Laim station precinct are handled from different signal boxes: