BER Airport – Terminal 1-2 station

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.

BER Airport – Terminal 1-2
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Location	Melli-Beese-Ring 12259 Schönefeld Brandenburg Germany
Coordinates	52°21′52.81″N 13°30′38.88″E
Owned by	Deutsche Bahn
Operated by	DB Netz DB Station&Service
Line(s)	Glasower Damm Ost–Bohnsdorf Süd railway Grünauer Kreuz–Berlin Brandenburg Airport
Platforms	3 island platforms
Tracks	6 (2 S-Bahn, 4 Regional/long distance)
Connections	IC 17 FEX RE 7 RB 14 RB 22 X7 X71 734 735 736 N7 N60 BER1 BER2
Other information
Station code	8192
DS100 code	BFBI/BFBB (S-Bahn)[1]
IBNR	8011201
Category	2[2]
Fare zone
History
Opened	October 26, 2020[3]
Services
Preceding station   DB Fernverkehr   Following station Berlin Südkreuz 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 Blankenfelde toward Wünsdorf-Waldstadt Berlin Ostkreuz toward Nauen RB 14 via Berlin Terminus Königs Wusterhausen Terminus RB 22 via Potsdam Ludwigsfelde-Struveshof toward Berlin Friedrichstraße Preceding station   Berlin S-Bahn   Following station Waßmannsdorf toward Südkreuz Terminus Waßmannsdorf toward Spandau
Location
Flughafen BER - Terminal 1-2 Location within Brandenburg Flughafen BER - Terminal 1-2 Location within Germany Flughafen BER - Terminal 1-2 Location within Europe

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] In 2016, a new estimate for the opening of the airport and station was made for 2018 or 2019, at the latest.[7] While the airport was not in operation, empty trains were running through the tunnels to drive out humidity.[8] DB ultimately sued the airport for damages due to the unused station.

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 Berlin Brandenburg Airport – Schönweide – Neukölln – Südkreuz
• S-Bahn services Berlin Brandenburg Airport – Schönweide – Ostbahnhof – Alexanderplatz – Hauptbahnhof – Westkreuz – Spandau

Gallery

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  Construction work at the entrance of the rail tunnel (July 2010)
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  Airport express train
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  Platform track 2 and sign
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  Map of railway connections at Berlin Brandenburg Airport

See also

• Airport rail link
• List of railway stations in the Berlin area

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
5. (in German) Infos at the Bundestag website
6. http://m.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-50666682.html
7. "Mehdorn plant den Abflug Spätestens 2019 soll der BER eröffnen" [Mehdorn seeks movers for shift to BER 2019 at latest]. Die Tageszeitung. 17 August 2014. Retrieved 19 August 2014.
8. http://m.maz-online.de/Lokales/Dahme-Spreewald/Im-nagelneuen-Bahnhof-haelt-kein-Zug
9. 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