Stresow is a

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a prep ...

in the

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district of

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, named after the ''Stresow'' neighbourhood east of the Havel river. It is served by the

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lines and .

History

The station opened on 15 December 1846 on the railway line from Berlin's

Hamburger Bahnhof Hamburger Bahnhof is the former terminus of the Berlin–Hamburg Railway in Berlin, Germany, on Invalidenstrasse in the Moabit district opposite the Charité hospital. Today it serves as a contemporary art museum, the , part of the Berlin Nati ...

to the city of

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. Then the main station in the area, it bore the name ''Spandau''. When in 1871 the parallel railway line from the

Lehrter Bahnhof Berlin Hauptbahnhof () (English: Berlin Central Station) is the main railway station in Berlin, Germany. It came into full operation two days after a ceremonial opening on 26 May 2006. It is located on the site of the historic Lehrter Bahnhof, ...

in Berlin to Lehrte opened with a second station west of the Havel river, the name ''Spandau'' received the addition of ''Hamburger Bahnhof'' to distinguish it from the new station called ''Lehrter Bahnhof''. As both lines were nationalised by the

Prussian state railways The term Prussian state railways (German: ''Preußische Staatseisenbahnen'') encompasses those railway organisations that were owned or managed by the State of Prussia. The words "state railways" are not capitalized because Prussia did not have a ...

in 1880 and 1884, the former ''Lehrter Bahnhof'' was closed for passenger service and became a freight-only station. Named ''Spandau Hauptbahnhof'' (main station) from 1911 and ''Berlin-Spandau'' from 1936, the station was renamed ''Stresow'' on 19 May 1997, when the Spandau-West station at the site of the historic ''Lehrter Bahnhof'' took over the name of ''Berlin-Spandau''. An S-Bahn station from 1928, service was interrupted in 1980 and not resumed until 30 December 1998, when the station reopened in its current form. The entrance building from 1846 is preserved in its original condition and is one of the oldest in Germany.

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*{{cite web, url=http://www.stadtschnellbahn-berlin.de/bahnhof/bahnhof.php?bhf=456, title= Berlin Stresow station, publisher= Stadtschnellbahn Berlin, language=German, accessdate=21 January 2015 Stresow Stresow Railway stations in Germany opened in 1846 1846 establishments in Prussia