S85 is a line on the

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.S-Bahn Berlin GmbH – Linieninformation der Linie S85
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, opened on 13 September 1866 and electrified on 4 January 1929, *the

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, opened on 17 July 1871 and electrified in 1926 and *the

Prussian Northern Railway The Berlin Northern Railway () is a 223-kilometre-long main line route, that runs from Berlin via Neustrelitz and Neubrandenburg to Stralsund on the Baltic Sea coast. Nowadays, long-distance and regional traffic on the Nordbahn is routed at ...

, opened on 10 July 1877 and electrified in 1925.

Service history

The S85 was created on 2 June 1991, replacing the Brown route of the East Berlin S-Bahn between

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and Spindlersfeld (via the eastern part of the

References

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