BER Airport – Terminal 1-2 station

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This article is about the new main railway station at Berlin Brandenburg Airport. For the older station at Schönefeld now serving Terminal 5, see BER Airport – Terminal 5 station.
BER Airport – Terminal 1-2
Deutsche Bahn S-Bahn-Logo.svg
Bf
BfFlughafenBERFernbahnsteige.jpg
LocationMelli-Beese-Ring
12259 Schönefeld
Brandenburg
Germany
Coordinates52°21′52.81″N 13°30′38.88″E / 52.3646694°N 13.5108000°E / 52.3646694; 13.5108000Coordinates: 52°21′52.81″N 13°30′38.88″E / 52.3646694°N 13.5108000°E / 52.3646694; 13.5108000
Owned byDeutsche Bahn
Operated by
Line(s)
Platforms3 island platforms
Tracks6 (2 S-Bahn, 4 Regional/long distance)
Connections
  • IC 17
  • FEX RE 7
  • RB 14 RB 22
  • Berlin S45.svg Berlin S9.svg
  • BUS-Logo-BVG.svg X7 X71 734 735 736 N7 N60 BER1 BER2
Other information
Station code8192
DS100 codeBFBI/BFBB (S-Bahn)[1]
IBNR8011201
Category2[2]
Fare zoneVBB
History
OpenedOctober 26, 2020[3]
Services
Preceding station   DB Fernverkehr   Following station
towards Warnemünde
IC 17
via Berlin
reverses out
Elsterwerda
towards Dresden
Preceding station   DB Regio Nordost   Following station
Berlin Ostkreuz
toward Berlin Hbf
FEX
Flughafen-Express
via Berlin Ostkreuz		Terminus
Berlin Ostkreuz
toward Dessau Hbf
RE 7
via Berlin
Berlin Ostkreuz
toward Nauen
RB 14
via Berlin		Terminus
Terminus
RB 22
via Potsdam
Preceding station   Berlin S-Bahn   Following station
toward Südkreuz
S45Terminus
toward Spandau
S9
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Location
Flughafen BER - Terminal 1-2 is located in Berlin
Flughafen BER - Terminal 1-2
Flughafen BER - Terminal 1-2
Location within Berlin

BER Airport – Terminal 1-2 station (German: Bahnhof Flughafen BER – Terminal 1-2) is a railway station located under the main terminal of Berlin Brandenburg Airport, Germany serving its Terminals 1 and 2 while the older BER Airport – Terminal 5 station serves its Terminal 5. The train services are operated by Deutsche Bahn, which provides long-distance and regional connections while S-Bahn Berlin offers suburban lines.

Overview[]

The station is located in a 3.1-kilometre-long (1.9 mi) tunnel, on the Glasower Damm Ost–Bohnsdorf Süd railway and the Grünauer Kreuz–Berlin Brandenburg Airport railway, both of which branch off the Berlin–Görlitz railway; the Glasower Damm Ost–Bohnsdorf Süd railway also branched off the Berlin outer ring. It is in the municipal territory of Schönefeld, just outside Berlin.

History[]

Construction of the station began in 2007 and the construction of the tunnels was completed on 25 June 2009. The station was handed over to Deutsche Bahn on 30 March 2010 and has been electrified since 7 June 2011.[4][5] The public clients agreed to pay a fixed price of 285 million euros, although the actual construction cost was well below that number.[6] While the airport itself was not in operation, empty trains were running through the tunnels to drive out humidity.[7] DB ultimately sued the airport for damages due to the unused station. The station was opened for regular passenger traffic on 26 October 2020,[8] a few days before opening of the airport.

The station is served by Berlin S-Bahn, Regional-Express and InterCity services. The station lies directly under the airport terminal and has six platforms. Two of these are terminating platforms for the S-Bahn lines S45 and S9.[9] The Airport is connected with Berlin Hauptbahnhof (Berlin main station) by the RE 9 Airport Express, with a journey time of 29 minutes as well as slower regional and suburban connections. Upgrades on the Berlin Dresden railway will enable faster and more frequent RE and IC service some time in the 2020s.

Train services[]

The station is served by the following regular service(s):[9][10]

  • Intercity services IC 17 Dresden – Berlin Brandenburg Airport – Berlin – Rostock – Warnemünde
  • Regional services FEX Berlin Hauptbahnhof – Berlin Gesundbrunnen – Berlin Ostkreuz – Berlin Brandenburg Airport
  • Regional services RE 7 Dessau – Bad Belzig – Michendorf – Berlin – Berlin Brandenburg Airport – Wünsdorf-Waldstadt
  • Local services RB 14 Nauen – Falkensee – Berlin – Berlin Brandenburg Airport – Königs Wusterhausen – Senftenberg
  • Local services RB 22 (Berlin Friedrichstraße –) Potsdam – Golm – Saarmund – Berlin Brandenburg Airport
  • S-Bahn services S45 Berlin Brandenburg Airport – Schönweide – Neukölln – Südkreuz
  • S-Bahn services S9 Berlin Brandenburg Airport – Schönweide – Ostbahnhof – Alexanderplatz – Hauptbahnhof – Westkreuz – Spandau

Gallery[]

  • Construction work at the entrance of the rail tunnel (July 2010)

  • Airport express train

  • Platform track 2 and sign

  • Map of railway connections at Berlin Brandenburg Airport

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2017 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2017. ISBN 978-3-89494-146-8.
  2. ^ "Stationspreisliste 2021" [Station price list 2021] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 16 November 2020. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
  3. ^ Smith, Kevin (26 October 2020). "Berlin Brandenburg Airport railways finally open". International Railway Journal. Retrieved 31 October 2020.
  4. ^ (in German) Infos on the Berliner Parliament website[permanent dead link]
  5. ^ (in German) Infos at the Bundestag website
  6. ^ ""Festpreis ist Festpreis"".
  7. ^ "Im nagelneuen Bahnhof hält kein Zug".
  8. ^ "S9 soll ab 26. Oktober bis zum BER fahren" (in German). RBB. Retrieved 17 February 2021.
  9. ^ Jump up to: a b Berlin Brandenburg Airport station on "S-Bahn Berlin GMBH" website Archived October 14, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
  10. ^ (in German) vbb.de

External links[]

Media related to Berlin Brandenburg Airport railway station at Wikimedia Commons

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