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S15 (Berlin)
S21 is a planned second north-south route for the Berlin S-Bahn, which will connect Berlin Hauptbahnhof to the Berlin Ringbahn to both north and south. The first section is under construction and is expected to go into operation in the first quarter of 2025. Overview The route creates an S-Bahn connection from the Nordring (Jungfernheide and Westhafen as well as Wedding and Gesundbrunnen) and the northern suburban railways (Kremmener Bahn from Hennigsdorf, Nordbahn from Oranienburg and Stettiner Bahn from Bernau) via the main station, Potsdamer Platz, Gleisdreieck to the Südring (Schöneberg, Südkreuz) and the southern suburban railways (Wannseebahn from Berlin-Wannsee, Anhalter Vorortbahn from Teltow and Dresdener Bahn from Blankenfelde). The ministry in the past had created various routes: *the Verbindungsbahn, which connected the main stations to street level in the 1850s in the south, *the Ringbahn, which once runs around the city center, with railways for S-Bahn and othe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Third Rail
A third rail, also known as a live rail, electric rail or conductor rail, is a method of providing electric power to a railway locomotive or train, through a semi-continuous rigid conductor placed alongside or between the rails of a track (rail transport), railway track. It is used typically in a mass transit or rapid transit system, which has alignments in its own corridors, fully or almost fully segregated from the outside environment. Third-rail systems are usually supplied with direct current. Modern tram systems with street running avoid the electrical injury risk of the exposed electric rail by implementing a segmented ground-level power supply, where each segment is electrified only while covered by a vehicle which is using its power. The third-rail system of electrification is not related to the third rail used in dual gauge, dual-gauge railways. The system is generally associated with a low voltage (rarely above 750 V) and is far less used for main lines than ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gleisdreieck (Berlin U-Bahn)
Gleisdreieck is an elevated Berlin U-Bahn List of Berlin U-Bahn stations, station located on a viaduct in the Kreuzberg district, and served by lines U1 (Berlin U-Bahn), U1, U2 (Berlin U-Bahn), U2, and U3 (Berlin U-Bahn), U3. The U1 (Berlin U-Bahn), U1/U3 (Berlin U-Bahn), U3 platform is at a higher level than, and perpendicular to, that of the U2 (Berlin U-Bahn), U2. Overview fILE:U-Bahn Berlin Gleisdreieck old and new.png, ''Gleisdreieck'' before and after the reconstruction The station's name literally means "railway triangle," or wye (rail), wye in English, and marks the spot of an earlier major train hub that opened in 1902, where the three branches of the first ''Stammstrecke'' U-Bahn line from Berlin Zoologischer Garten railway station, Zoologischer Garten, Berlin Potsdamer Platz station, Potsdamer Platz and Berlin Warschauer Straße station, Warschauer Brücke met. A major accident at the triangle happened on 26 September 1908, when two trains collided. One car derailed a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Potsdamer Platz Station
Berlin Potsdamer Platz is a railway station in Berlin. It is completely underground and situated under Potsdamer Platz in central Berlin. Regional and S-Bahn services call at the station, and it is also served by U-Bahn line U2. History S-Bahn The first station at Potsdamer Platz was the Potsdamer Bahnhof terminus, which was closed on 27 September 1945 due to war damage. In 1939 the S-Bahn, or ''Stadtbahn'' (City Railway), arrived. The idea for a North-South Link rapid transit rail line from Unter den Linden to Yorckstraße, via Potsdamer Platz and Anhalter Bahnhof, had first been mooted in 1914, but it was not planned in detail until 1928, and then approval had to wait until 1933. Begun in 1934, it was plagued with disasters. Determination to have it finished in time for the Berlin Olympic Games in 1936 meant vital safety measures were ignored: on 20 August 1935, a tunnel collapse just south of the Brandenburg Gate buried 23 workmen of whom only four survive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shuttle Train
A shuttle train is a train that runs back and forth between two points, especially if it offers a frequent service over a short route. Shuttle trains are used in various ways, in various parts of the world. They commonly operate as a fixed consist, and run non-stop between their termini. They can be used to carry passengers, freight, or both. Examples Airport shuttle trains An airport shuttle train may run between an airport and some other location, or connect two or more terminals. The second is usually in the form of a driverless people mover. Italy A shuttle train connects Galileo Galilei Airport in Pisa with Pisa Central railway station. It operates daily and takes five minutes. United Kingdom The Gatwick Airport Shuttle Transit is a people mover used to transfer passengers between the North and South Terminals at London Gatwick Airport. It runs every few minutes 24 hours a day, and the journey takes two minutes. Car shuttle trains A car shuttle train is used to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berlin Ringbahn
The Ringbahn (German for circle railway) is a long circle route around Berlin's inner city area, on the Berlin S-Bahn network. Its course is made up of a pair of tracks used by S-Bahn trains and another parallel pair of tracks used by various regional, long distance and freight trains. The S-Bahn lines S41 and S42 provide a closed-loop continuous service without termini. Lines S45, S46 and S47 use a section of the southern and western ring, while lines S8 and S85 use sections of the eastern ring. The combined number of passengers is about 400,000 passengers a day. Due to its distinctive shape, the line is often referred to as the ''Hundekopf'' (Dog's Head). The Ringbahn is bisected by an east–west railway thoroughfare called the Stadtbahn (city railway), which crosses the Ringbahn from Westkreuz (Western Cross) to Ostkreuz (Eastern Cross), forming a Südring (Southern Ring) and a Nordring (Northern Ring). The north-south S-Bahn link (with the North-South S-Bahn-tunnel as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berlin S-Bahn
The Berlin S-Bahn () is a rapid transit railway system that services the reigon in and around Berlin, the capital city of Germany. It has been in operation under the name since December 1930, having been previously called the special tariff area ('Berlin city, orbital, and suburban railways'). It complements the Berlin U-Bahn and is the link to many outer-Berlin areas, such as Berlin Brandenburg Airport. As such, the Berlin S-Bahn blends elements of a commuter rail service and a rapid transit system. In its first decades of operation, the trains were steam-drawn; even after the railway electrification system, electrification of large parts of the network, some lines remained under steam. Today, the term ''S-Bahn'' is used in Berlin only for those lines and trains with Third rail, third-rail electrical power transmission and the special Berlin S-Bahn loading gauge. The third unique technical feature of the Berlin S-Bahn, the automated mechanical train control (works very similar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berlin-Schöneberg Station
Berlin-Schöneberg (in German Bahnhof Berlin-Schöneberg) is a railway station in the district of Schöneberg, in the city of Berlin, Germany. It is a two-level exchange station serving the Wannseebahn suburban and the Ringbahn circular lines of the Berlin S-Bahn, with the lower level serving the ''Wannseebahn'' and the upper level the ''Ringbahn''. The station lies just south of the ''Dominicusstraße'' and ''Sachsendamm'' streets, where local bus stops allow changing between S-Bahn and busses. The ''Schöneberg'' station was opened on 1 March 1933 as a two-level exchange station between the Wannseebahn suburban line and the Berlin Ringbahn circular railway, in the course of the electrification of the ''Wannseebahn'' suburban line. Its ''Ringbahn'' level replaced the older ''Ebersstraße'' station on the ''Ringbahn'', which was located slightly further west. The entry of the closed station was kept as entry to the western end of the ''Ringbahn'' platform of the new exchange st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wannseebahn
The Wannsee Railway () is a suburban railway in Berlin running from Potsdamer Platz via the Ring line station of Schöneberg to Wannsee station on Großer Wannsee, a lake after which it is named. Today it is a section of the Berlin S-Bahn line S1. History Beginnings The original section of the Wannsee Railway was built in 1874 and branched off at Zehlendorf from the Potsdam trunk line and rejoined the line at the current Griebnitzsee station. After the opening of the Lichterfelde West station on the trunk line in 1872 to serve the new suburb of mansions only (''villa colony'', German: ''Villenkolonie'') of Lichterfelde-West, the new emerging suburbs of Schlachtensee, Wannsee and Düppel sought their own rail connection. The official opening of the extension was made on 1 June 1874. Unlike the new Lichterfelde West station, which was completely financed by the builder of the villa colony, Johann Anton Wilhelm von Carstenn, the planning and construction of the new st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berlin Julius-Leber-Brücke Station
Julius-Leber-Brücke is a railway station in the Schöneberg district of Berlin. Located under a bridge over the Cut (earthmoving), cutting created for the Berlin-Potsdam-Magdeburg railway. It was officially opened on 2 May 2008 and is served by the Berlin S-Bahn, S-Bahn line . The bridge is named after German resistance to Nazism, Resistance fighter Julius Leber. It was formerly named ''Sedanbrücke'', after the Prusso-German victory in the Battle of Sedan (1870), Battle of Sedan in the Franco-Prussian War, Prusso-German war against France in 1870/71. The bridge connects the two ends of ''Kolonnenstraße''. The station has two platforms, of which only the inner platform edges are being used, serving the Wannsee Railway, Wannseebahn line of the Berlin S-Bahn running between them. History The station is located next to the original site of the historic ''Bahnhof Schöneberg'', opened in 1881 at the ''Südringspitzkehre'', the branch terminal line closing the southern Ringbahn by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berlin Südkreuz Station
Berlin Südkreuz station () is a railway station in the German capital Berlin. The station was originally opened in 1898 and is an interchange station. The Berlin Ringbahn line of the Berlin S-Bahn metro railway is situated on the upper level and connects to the east and west, whilst the Anhalter Bahn and Dresdner Bahn intercity railway routes reach the station on the lower, north-south level. The station was extensively rebuilt between the late 1990s and 2006, and was renamed Berlin Südkreuz on 28 May 2006. History The station's original name (Berlin Papestraße) originates from the nearby ''General-Pape-Straße'', which is named after the Prussian general Alexander August Wilhelm von Pape. The Ringbahn platform opened as an island platform on 1 December 1901. The original Papestrasse station building, constructed from 1898 to 1901 was demolished, although a corner of the building, incorporating a clock tower, has been preserved as part of the new station. Becoming Sü ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anhalter Vorortbahn
The Anhalt suburban line () is a suburban railway in Berlin and Brandenburg. It originally ran from Berlin Potsdamer Bahnhof#Ringbahnhof and Wannsee Bahnhof, Potsdamer Ringbahnhof in Berlin over the Berlin–Halle railway (also called the ''Anhalter Bahn'' or Anhalt Railway). With the opening of the Berlin Nord-Süd Tunnel in 1939, this service was abandoned. Subsequently, the electric services ran to the south parallel with the long-distance tracks of the Anhalt Railway. Its terminus was at Berlin-Lichterfelde Ost station, Berlin-Lichterfelde Ost until the 1940s. In 1943, it was extended to Lichterfelde Süd station, Lichterfelde Süd for electric trains and to Ludwigsfelde station, Ludwigsfelde for steam trains. The construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961 stopped services at the outskirts of Berlin. In 2005, a new Berlin-Lichterfelde Süd–Teltow Stadt railway, Berlin-Lichterfelde Süd–Teltow Stadt S-Bahn line was opened. History The population of many towns and villages arou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berlin Yorckstraße Station
Berlin Yorckstraße () is an Berlin S-Bahn, S-Bahn and Berlin U-Bahn, U-Bahn station located in the Schöneberg locality of central Berlin, Germany. Overview The eponymous street is named after ''Generalfeldmarschall'' Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg. Bahnhof Yorckstraße consists of two neighbouring S-Bahn stations and an underground station: The western Yorckstraße (Großgörschenstraße) S-Bahn station on the S1 (Berlin), S1 line (DS100: BGGS) was opened as ''Großgörschenstraße'' in 1891 with the new ''Wannseebahn'' rapid transit line running from Berlin Potsdamer Bahnhof, Potsdamer Bahnhof to Berlin-Wannsee railway station, Wannsee. Originally located south of the small ''Großgörschenstraße'' the platform was demolished and shifted northwards to its current position at the ''Yorckstraße'' with the opening of the Berlin Nord-Süd-Tunnel, ''Nord-Süd Bahn'' tunnel in 1939. As the Welthauptstadt Germania, "Germania" plans included a general reorganization of Berlin's railway ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
