Erkner station is the passenger station in the town of

Erkner Erkner () is a town in the Oder-Spree District of Brandenburg, Germany, located on the south-eastern edge of the German capital city Berlin. Geography The town is located between the lakes Dämeritzsee, a part of the river Spree (river), Spree, a ...

situated east of

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in the German state of

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. It is located at kilometre 24.3 on the Berlin-Frankfurt railway. The station also includes a carriage shed for historic rollingstock of the

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History

The station was opened on 23 October 1842 as one of the first on the line from Berlin to Frankfurt (Oder). A railway settlement was built at the station on garden city principles in the 1920s. As part of the project to build an upgraded line (''Ausbaustrecke'') between Berlin and

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, the regional platforms were rebuilt as side platforms to the south between 2009 and 2011. In parallel, the station building was renovated and the

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platform was rebuilt from 2012. In the same year

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went into operation on the long-distance tracks.

Erkner carriage shed

The Erkner carriage shed (''Triebwagenhalle Erkner'', TWh Erk) was opened in 1928. It was administrated as part of the Berlin-Grunau workshop. With the introduction of new rollingstock of class 481/482, which was calculated to require less maintenance, the carriage shed was closed in 2000. It has been used since then by the ''Historische S-Bahn e. V'' association for rollingstock storage and staff facilities. The historic trains are located here and some minor maintenance work is carried out. In January 2010, the carriage shed was reopened due to the lack of capacity resulting from the cancellation of many services with the new rollingstock in 2009/2010. In December 2011, it became part of the Friedrichsfelde works for organisational purposes.

Train services

The station is served twice per hour in both directions by RE 1

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services towards

and Eisenhüttenstadt and towards

and

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. Since September 2023, almost 30 pairs of trains have been running Monday to Friday on behalf of

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to transport the public to the Tesla

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. In addition Erkner is the terminus of line S3 of the

. The S-Bahn stops three times an hour in Erkner and six times an hour in the summer months. There is a large bus station next to the station, which is served by cross country buses from the area around Erkner. The station is served by the following service(s):Timetables for Erkner
*Regional services ''Magdeburg – Brandenburg – Potsdam – Berlin – Erkner – Fürstenwalde – Frankfurt (Oder) (– Cottbus)'' * ''Erkner – Fangschleuse Tesla Süd'' *Berlin S-Bahn services ''Spandau - Westkreuz - Hauptbahnhof – Alexanderplatz – Ostbahnhof – Karlshorst – Köpenick – Erkner''

References

External links

Erkner station's page on S-Bahn website
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Railway stations in Brandenburg Buildings and structures in Oder-Spree Railway stations in Germany opened in 1842 1842 establishments in Prussia